More Pictures of the Treo 650
Last week, a user on Treocentral.com posted a bunch of new Treo 650 pictures. Yesterday, the folks at MyTreo.net cleaned and resized these images and posted commentary. Basically educated guesses at the clues provided in the picture. Some of these guesses are helpful, but of course they are still just guesses. We’ll have to wait another week or two, perhaps a little longer, till the 650 is actually announced. Of course no one will be able to actually buy one for a while longer than that, but at least we will know with certainty what will be offered. It does look like the 650 will carry the newer version of Blazer, PalmOne’s web browser which they recently announced will be coming out for newer devices (no word on whether current devices will be able to take advantage and load this newer version). It also just dawned on me that this phone will have a 1.3-Megapixel camera. This may seem pretty lame compared to the 8-Megapixel prosumer cameras on the market today, not to mention the 12-16-MP high-end digital SLR’s or 22-MP Medium Format backs. But my first digital camera from four years ago, a Sony DSC-S30, had the same resolution. While the pictures can’t really be printed at more than a 4x6 without starting to look very obviously a digital print, on a computer screen, they look quite good! Of course, the camera had a nice Carl Zeiss lens, so I’m a bit concerned that despite the new Treo’s added resolution, image quality may still suck a bit. Then again, the pictures of the camera in action do look promising…