We’re still not sure when Cingular is going to get that 750 hotness, but it doesn’t look like us Stateside peeps will have to wait too terribly long to get some antenna-free Treo action.
Palm, in a recent earnings call, confirmed that there will be more info “in the coming weeks” in regards to a new “price sensitive” Treo, due for 20 networks worldwide in a few months. Lucky for us, it looks to be that oft-rumored Lowrider phone — at least according to the rumors currently being mongered — with the same form-factor as the 750v, but a VGA camera and no 3G data.
Sometimes, vapourware turns out to be real. There have been rumors, complete with stupid photoshop images, that a portable, pocket-sized sampler/drum machine called the MPC-500 was about to be launched by Akai for at least two years. Last week, after a few leaked photos appeared, it was finally announced: a little black box running on 6 AA batteries, with 12 pads, 16mb of memory and a two-line LCD display beamed straight out of a 1985 pocket calculator. Is it the greatest piece of pocketable audio kit since the Walkman iPod, or just an overpriced toy for DJ wannabes?