But pair a Windows-friendly smart phone--such as a Palm Treo 750--with a foldable keyboard, and you're almost in road-warrior nirvana.
It was early-adopting (often young) employees, not the IT departments, who brought the Palm Treo, the BlackBerry and now the Apple iPhone into their organizations, forcing change.
It's refreshing to see infrared resurging in popularity, as we're now seeing it in several flagship devices, though it's used in a completely different way now than in the days of the Palm Treo and other IrDA-clad devices.
Palm's apparently not calling it a Treo (it was presented to us as the Palm Centro, not the Palm Treo Centro, or the Treo 800), and isn't yet showing off any images of it (for those you've got Engadget Mobile).
Palm 's Treo smartphone has become increasingly popular over the last year, particularly since Palm launched a version that runs the Windows mobile operating system.
Samsung's Blackjack II and Palm 's Treo 750 are two handsets that fit the bill.
This is also a key reason why Microsoft has decided to put its OS on Palm's Treo smartphone.
But while the keyboards sported by RIM's BlackBerry and Palm 's Treo are ugly, they're ideal for users addicted to e-mail, rather than the latest installment of Desperate Housewives.
Donna Dubinsky, who pitched both the Palm Pilot and the Treo to Mossberg, is now the C.
It's been debated since the early days of smartphones, when devices such as the Treo based on Palm OS could not handle more than one task at a time, while handsets based on the Windows Mobile platform had the capability.
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Palm 's (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Treo smartphone has become increasingly popular over the last year, particularly since Palm launched a version that runs the Windows mobile operating system.
Handspring created the Treo, which became Palm's entry into smartphones when Palm acquired Handspring.
Chances are good that future handhelds from Palm will look more like the Treo and less like the unconnected organizers of the past.
Palm's long-rumored Treo 700p, available initially from Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless , taps the carriers' newest and fastest data networks, with speeds quick enough to download music and watch streaming video over the air.
Samsung's Blackjack II and Palm 's (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Treo 750 are two handsets that fit the bill.
Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky , creators of the Palm and Handspring personal digital assistants and the Treo smartphone, have formed a software company built around a powerful and unorthodox vision of how the human brain works.
But while the keyboards sported by RIM's BlackBerry and Palm 's (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Treo are ugly, they're ideal for users addicted to e-mail, rather than the latest installment of Desperate Housewives.
Seriously, please Palm, what we need is for you to improve the Treo -- or whatever phone device you expect us to carry and use -- not design the Treo its very own Lenny Small to hack around sluggish handset design.
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Despite repeated rumblings about the Treo 750's imminent release on Cingular, Palm has dropped the bomb today that the 750 is now targeted for a US debut in the third frickin' quarter of 2007 in a report detailing its revised guidance for Q2 of next year.
"It's a logical upgrade for Treo 650 users who haven't seen a new Palm OS unit in a few years, " says Jack Gold, founder and principal analyst at J.
Note that they don't say "Linux-powered Treo" LinuxDevices.com seems to think that Palm is going to introduce a line of Linux-powered "feature phones".
ENGADGET: Palm working on a line of Linux-powered, non-Treo feature phones?
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