700th heaven

Now here’s a serious troika: Palm plus Windows plus Sprint.

Palm, Inc. representatives today announced an addition to the firm’s Treo 700 line with the release of the Palm Treo 700wx smartphone. The Treo 700wx runs Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition, thereby adding another Palm EvDO product to Sprint’s product offerings.

The Treo 700wx promises a combination of mobile phone with the power and “security” of Windows Mobile; the launch is designed to appeal to the enterprise customer, and company PR is touted the product as the “first Windows Mobile Treo smartphone on the Sprint Power Vision Network” and as a complement to the Palm OS platform.

Features pumped in the Treo 700wx include a Windows Mobile Messaging and Security Feature Pack, which includes Direct Push Technology, native S/MIME support, certificate-based authentication to all Exchange data, and remote and local device wipe; streamlined access to Good Mobile Messaging through the Get Good application icon; real-time access to push-based email, calendar items, contacts, notes and tasks; support for the Good Mobile Defense program; and Good Mobile Intranet, which provides access to web-enabled enterprise systems such as sales force automation, customer relationship management and corporate intranet.

The Treo 700wx smartphone can be used as a wireless modem via USB technology via the dial-up networking capabilities, and the Sprint Power Vision Network promises “broadband-like download data speeds.” When using Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition with the Treo phone, other features open up including touch screen functions; copy and paste functions; built-in viewers and editors for Microsoft Word Mobile, Excel(R) Mobile, Power Point mobile, and PDF files; and the ability to save images and sounds from a website.

At this point, you almost have to wonder why you need a computer at all…

The Palm Treo 700wx smartphone starting price is listed at just under US $500.