|  Palm introduced its Treo 680 smartphone with the intention of expanding the market for smartphones out of vertical markets like enterprise, business, and government and out into the mainstream mobile phone-using population. And to back it up, the Treo 680 comes in hip colors, is slimmer than its older Treo brethren. The Treo 680 is the smartphone for everyone. It's small, sleek, fast and comes in a variety of fun colors," said Ed Colligan, Palm's president and CEO. "It's a great phone design, great for messaging and email, and provides users easy and fast access to the Internet and to their favorite music and pictures, and makes it easy for people to manage and balance their business and personal lives while on the go. The Treo 680 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE smartphone powered by an Intel PXA270 312 MHz processor; the phone sports an easy-type QWERTY keyboard, a 320 by 240 color screen, 64 MB of user memory (expandable via MMC and SD cards), a VGA resolution video-capable digital camera, a speakerphone, and both Bluetooth 1.2 and mini-USB connectivity. On the software side, the phone offer full-featured email and Web browsing capabilities, including Exchange ActiveSync and the new Blazer 4.5 Web browser. The phone supports MP3 playback, music streaming, video, and photos, and can be used as a Bluetooth wireless modem to connect a Bluetooth-enabled laptop to the Internet. In addition, users can edit and share Microsoft Word and Excel documents using Documents To Go, and view both PDF files and PowerPoint presentations. The Treo 680 smartphone has a unique phone user interface that further simplifies Treo innovations, such as the ability to respond to calls with a preset text message and add new phone numbers to existing contact information, and three-way calling. The Treo 680 also has integrated email and web capabilities, so users can stay in touch with colleagues and friends. The messaging application on the Treo 680 displays text-messaging conversations as "threaded chats," similar to IM, so users can see their entire conversation with a particular person. The Treo 680 smartphone also can be used as an MP3 player and has an integrated digital camera, camcorder and video player.
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