Palm Treo 700w at Sprint By February?

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://cestockblog.com/article/6347">http://cestockblog.com/article/6347</a><br /><br /><i>"Sprint to offer PALM Treo 700w ahead of schedule, as early as end of February. Based on our channel checks, it appears that Sprint is likely to offer the latest PALM Treo 700w (Windows version) as early as end of February, which would be ahead of schedule (following its launch with Verizon on 1/5)."</i><br /><br />I thought Palm and Verizon had an exclusivity agreement until mid-summer on the 700w? However, if this rumor is true, could a GSM version of the 700w be that far behind?

[Perry Reed]

This is great news for us Sprint users. My biggest hope is that the release of the Treo will inspire them to drop the price of the PPC-6700 so as to match Verizon's price for it.

[jngold_me]

This doesn't make sense at all. There would be some major lawsuits on the part of Verizon.

[PPCMD]

Why bother with all the hoopla back in September if they are going to let it go to Sprint so quickly.

[shindullin]

according to the article, experts were expecting the wait to be longer because of typical exclusivity contracts of 3-6 months, so this announcement is taking the exclusivity agreements into account. This year is turning out to be a really nice one for PPC's and smartphones.