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Palm Treo 700wThis hybrid PDA/cell phone combines Palm's hardware with Microsoft's OS--and the result is a pretty happy union.
Chris Manners
Verizon's Treo 700w brings together Palm's hardware and Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5 operating system for the first time ever--and while Palm purists may cringe, the merger is largely successful.
Perhaps the easiest way to describe the 700w handset is to compare it to the popular Treo 650. The differences are small, but noteworthy. For starters, the keys on the 700w's QWERTY keypad are square, which makes them slightly more difficult to use than the 650's teardrop-shape keys. And the keys that normally launch the Palm apps have become Microsoft-centric; they include a Windows launch key,...