After the blurry shot of the second Palm webOS device earlier today, now we have a far better look at the QWERTY handset. Apparently called the Palm Eos, the device will be a quadband GSM/HSDPA smartphone measuring just 10.6mm thick and with a 2.63-inch 320 x 400 capacitive touchscreen.
The Palm Eos will have half the storage of the Pre, at 4GB, and a 2-megapixel fixed-focus camera with flash and video capture functionality. There’ll also be Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with A2DP support and a micro-USB 2.0 port, though no sign of WiFi. The battery will be a 1,150mAh pack, user-removable, and good for an estimated 4hrs of 3G talktime.
With support for the 850 and 1900 bands, the Palm Eos will be headed to AT&T rather than Sprint, where it will support MediaNet and Cellular Video. Price is said to be $349 before any carrier rebate. There are still questions remaining - and yes, this is just a render, not a live photo - but the Palm Eos certainly looks like it has potential.
Update: The target price is $99, according to TechCrunch, suggesting that the Eos is aimed at the lower end of the market. Palm are, according to one source, waiting to see how the Pre does before announcing the Eos, or planning to launch a few months after the Pre, according to another.
- Messaging: SMS, MMS (picture and video only), integrated IM client
- Contact sync with AT&T Address Book
- MediaNet
- Cellular Video
- Email: POP3, IMAP4, and EAS support
- A-GPS: SUPL and Control Plane support
- Audio: WAV, MP3, AAC, AAC+ ringtones
- Video Playback: MPEG4, H.264, H.263
- Dimensions: 111 x 55 x 10.6 mm
- Weight: 100g