Palm released a new business phone for Sprint on Monday -- the Treo 800w, with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The new model, which Palm described as its "most business-friendly phone yet," supports EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, and a Global Positioning System.
Sprint said the Treo 800w is its first smartphone to ship with EV-DO Rev. A support, and includes Microsoft's Internet Explorer Mobile.
Support for Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server is supported through Direct Push Technology, for automatic updates of e-mail, calendars, contacts and tasks. The 800w is also compatible with Microsoft's System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, for corporate management through mobile VPN.
A local search bar on the home screen is GPS-based, and Wi-Fi can be turned on and off by a switch on the phone. Prices start at $249.99 and, although the announcement was made by Palm and Sprint, the 800w is reportedly not exclusive to Sprint.
Sprint said its mobile broadband network, which reaches more than 246 million people and 16,000 cities, can provide peak download data rates of 3.1 Mbps and peak uploads of 1.8 Mbps on the 800w. Averages, the company said, range from 600 kbps to 1.4 Mbps down and 350 to 500 kbps up.
The 800w features 170MB of user memory, a two-megapixel camera, and support for 8GB MicroSDHC memory cards. The smartphone's 320 x 320 screen is a step up from the 240 x 240 display on other Windows Mobile Treos.
For the media- and socially-inclined, the 800w offers the Sprint TV service, a news application from Handmark, and instant messaging for Yahoo Messenger, AIM and MSN Messenger.
For the dining- and shopping-inclined, the new Treo offers functions for both. Maps, point-to-point directions, and point-of-interest (POI) searches utilize GPS and enhancements to the Palm software. POI search is integrated with contacts, and the turn-by-turn directions are powered...

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