Palm's Windows Mobile-based Treo 700w is getting a sibling that runs the Palm operating system: the Treo 700p.
Like the Treo 700w, the 700p is a cell phone-personal digital assistant hybrid that will support high-speed EvDO data networks. But while the 700w is available only from Verizon Wireless, Palm says both Verizon and Sprint--the two national carriers with EvDO networks--will sell the 700p. The carriers are expected shortly to announce details on the pricing and availability of the 700p.
The Treo 700p runs version 5.49 of the Palm OS (the Treo 650 runs version 5.45). In its hardware, however, the 700p is very similar to the 700w, with the same connectors for charging and syncing, the same Intel XScale 312MHz processor, the same 128MB of flash memory (60MB user-accessible), the same 1.3-megapixel camera, and the same SD card slot. One difference is that the 700p's screen resolution is 320-by-320 pixels, whereas the 700w's is 240-by-240 pixels.
