Palm Treo 700wx Now Available for Sprint Users

Palm just announced that the Treo 700wx is now available for Sprint users. As you can see from my previous post, physicians who are using many applications on their handhelds may find this a useful upgrade from their current Treo 650 models. The 700wx is the Windows version of the Treo and also comes with broadband-like speeds over the respective phone data networks. With the 700wx, you get additional usable memory (60MB of ROM) as with the 700p. I'll let you know soon how the 700p functions as I will be receiving a unit this coming week. You can read the marketing information on the 700wx here.

Running out of Memory

I've always advised physicians to buy devices that have plenty of memory and an expansion card. So, why am I running out of memory? Well, unfortunately, the Treo 650 phone/pda by Palm only has about 20MB of usable onboard memory. This means that programs like ePocrates, HanDBase, and other useful medical programs soon run out of space. So, I'm going to be giving the new Treo 700P a whirl. This device sports about 60MB of usable onboard memory, although the total is 128MB. Sure would be nice to have all of that usable, as there are many programs that work best on the main memory section of the PDA. Information on the Treo 700P can be found here.