SingTel Ltd., an Asian provider of voice and data services over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms, unveiled today Palm Treo 680 smartphone on its network in Singapore.

 

SingTel is a multi-market operator with a network of 37 offices spread across 19 countries across Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States.

 

The multi-featured, Palm OS powered Treo 680 smartphone is convenience packed in a slim and sleek package. Palm Inc.’s flagship product, the Palm Treo smartphone is a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone with a wide range of features including email, web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar, and contacts.

 

A key player in the mobile computing market, Palm Inc. also manufactures Palm handheld computers, and Palm LifeDrive mobile managers, and provides software, services and accessories.

 

The handset has been rendered extremely user-friendly due to its enhanced phone application, facilitating quick dialing and navigation of the phone features. In addition, it is equipped with the facility of ignoring calls and sending quick text messages. Among other convenience enhancing features are a full QWERTY keyboard and a messaging application that displays text-messaging conversations as ‘threaded chats’.

 

“SingTel is excited to bring the award-winning Palm Treo user experience to our customers,” said Vicki Brady, vice president of Consumer Marketing for SingTel in a press release. “With multimedia, business, and wireless Internet capabilities right out of the box, the Treo 680 allows subscribers to leverage SingTel’s island-wide wireless mobile data networks, as well as a selection of exclusive content available on SingTel IDEAS.”

 

“The Treo 680 smartphone is reaching new customers and markets, exemplifying Palm’s dedication to expanding both geographically and demographically,” said John Hartnett, senior vice president, global markets, Palm, Inc. “Its affordability, ease of use and style are attracting new users in the smartphone and feature-phone markets.”