Palm Treo 680 Specifications

By Alex Kidman on 14/12/2006

More Palm reviews , RRP: AU$799.00

The good:

  • Full QWERTY keyboard
  • Simple lock/unlock procedure
  • Quad-band GSM
  • SD card support

The bad:

  • Sluggish performance
  • Audio quality could be better
  • Physical dialling pad is tiny
  • Awful VGA camera

The bottomline:

Palm's latest smartphone will appeal to existing Palm users, but it still lags behind the Windows smartphone pack by a pretty clear margin.

Buying choices:

Editors' rating:

7/10

Users' rating:

7/10

Tags:

680 | palm | quad-band | smartphone | treo

Battery Life

  • Talktime
  • 4 hours
  • Standby time
  • 300 hours

Camera

  • Camera resolution
  • 1-megapixel
  • Digital zoom
  • 2 x
  • Video capture
  • Yes

Connectivity

  • Network(s)
  • GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900
  • Wireless technology
  • Bluetooth, Infrared
  • Data Services
  • GPRS
  • USB
  • Yes

Display

  • Screen resolution
  • 320 x 320 pixels
  • Number of colours
  • 65K

Entertainment

  • Games
  • Yes
  • FM radio
  • No
  • Video player
  • Yes

Functionality

  • Input method
  • QWERTY keyboard, Touchscreen
  • Polyphonic
  • Yes
  • Ringtone options
  • Polyphonic
  • Digital camera
  • Yes
  • Synchronisation method(s)
  • ActiveSync
  • Software
  • Pre-loaded: Blazer Web Browser, Bluetooth Manager, Calculator, Calendar, Camera, Card info, Contacts, Documents To Go 8.0, HotSync Manager, Memos, Messaging, MyTreo, Phone, Pictures and Videos, PocketTunes, QuickTour, Security, Tasks, VersaMail, Voice Memo, World Clock; CD-ROM: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Audible, Bejeweled 1.0, Documents To Go Professional including native PDF viewer, Enterprise software link, eReader, Handmark Solitaire, Handmark Pocket Express, Palm Files, Remote File Access, Treo Voice Dialling
  • Operating system
  • Palm OS
  • Web browser
  • Yes
  • Voice recorder
  • Yes

General

  • Dimensions (W x D x H)
  • 59 x 21 x 113 mm
  • Weight
  • 158 g
  • Processor
  • Intel PXA270
  • Processor speed
  • 312 MHz
  • RAM
  • 64 MB

Memory

  • Expansion slot
  • SD, MultiMedia Card

Messaging

  • Messaging capabilities
  • SMS, MMS, E-mail
  • Email protocols
  • POP3, IMAP4
  • Push e-mail
  • No

Other

  • Phone type
  • Smartphone
  • Form factor
  • QWERTY keyboard
  • Included accessories
  • USB cable

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