Palm Treo Hollywood images sighted

While the Web has been buzzing with news of the upcoming Treo 700p, images of another Palm device have started circulating on the Internet. Pictures of the Treo Hollywood (codename), announced earlier by Palm's CEO as one of the new smart phones for 2006, have appeared on several forums and blogs, including the Treonauts site.

From the circulated photos, the Treo Hollywood would appear to sport a thinner form factor and antenna-less design. Speculations are rife that the Hollywood will run Windows Mobile 5.0 and feature a 300MHz processor, 128MB flash memory, 64MB of RAM, a 240 x 240-pixel display, and a 1.3-megapixel camera. So far, Palm has not breathed a word on whether the Treo 700p or Hollywood will be making its way to Asia anytime soon.

SingTel scores a first with Treo 650 BlackBerry support

Singapore carrier SingTel today secured a coup as the world's first mobile operator to offer BlackBerry Connect for Palm's Treo 650 PDA-phone. According to the press release, the BlackBerry service will be immediately available for new and existing Treo 650 customers. Corporate customers can also purchase the Treo 650 at S$299 (US$196.71) with every subscription of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution Unlimited Local Data Usage plan at S$61.95 (US$40.76) per month.

Ms Vicki Brady, SingTel's vice president for Consumer Marketing, believes "the compact and feature-rich Treo 650 with Blackberry Connect will appeal to many of our corporate customers". Some of the features supported by BlackBerry Connect for the Treo 650 include push corporate email, wireless calendar synchronization, attachment viewing of Office and PDF documents, and Remote Address Lookup (RAL).

Dopod users to get Chinese language support

Taiwan company Dopod is providing free downloads of the Mobem CE-Star Suite Version 2.8 Chinese Language Kits for owners of its Dopod 900, 838, 818 Pro and P100 handhelds. This can be downloaded at its Web site (www.dopodasia.com). The software will enable users to read and write Chinese characters on their Dopod devices. At the same time, the application can be used to display Japanese text.

Dopod has also announced that users can download free Mozart ringtones and wallpapers from its Web site. According to Dopod CEO Jack Tong: "We want to bring the same high level of innovation, personality and vividness in Mozart's music to Dopod users."

Push email coming to a Dopod near you

Microsoft Singapore execs recently confirmed that Dopod will be offering firmware updates with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack for its Asia-Pacific customers with Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. The new ROM upgrade, which is expected to be available on the Dopod Asia Web site in the next two to three months, will provide users with push email capabilities and other minor enhancements such as storing of contact information on the service for easy access from the phone.

According to Microsoft, HP's upcoming GPS-enabled iPaq hw6900 series and rw6800 Multimedia Messenger will be one of the first Windows Mobile 5.0 devices to have the Messaging and Security Feature Pack preinstalled in the handheld. Other PDA vendors such as O2 are expected to announce similar firmware upgrades in the coming months.

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