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Handspring updates combo cell phone/handheld with thumb keyboards, clean screen; it also adds one PDA sans phone.
Handspring is unveiling this week a pair of color Treo PDAs, one of them a cell phone combo device, that may make their predecessors look gray and drab.
New are the color Treo 270, which combines functions of a wireless phone with a personal digital assistant (PDA), and the lightweight PDA-only Treo 90. The Treo 270 is available initially from Handspring.com and, within a few weeks, from retailers and service providers. Its price is expected to be $499, and the Treo 90, $299. Both have 16MB of RAM and run on the Palm operating system with Handspring extensions.
Combo and Color
The Treo 270 is essentially a color version of the pioneering Treo 180, the model that dispenses with Palm's Graffiti handwriting input in favor of a thumb keyboard. The 270 sports a handsome 4000- plus color screen, and, at...