palmOne has released a new version of its Treo smart phone. The Treo 650 features several enhancements to its predecessor, the Treo 600, which was released about a year ago.
The new version includes integrated Bluetooth technology, a removable battery, "nonvolatile" memory that maintains information when the phone's battery is dead, a newly designed QWERTY backlit keyboard, and support for e-mail access to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 using palmOne's VersaMail software. It also features an expansion card slot, which can support added memory or other data card-based applications, such as clinical reference software.
The Treo 650 smart phone is 4.4 inches long, weighs 6.3 ounces and runs on the Palm OS 5.4 operating system. It also features an Intel PXA270 312MHz processor, 23MB available storage, Infrared technology and a camera.
The Treo 650 smart phone runs on GSM/GRPS technology over a variety of mobile phone networks. Pricing will vary among mobile phone service carriers.
As clinical information system vendors continue to adapt their products for use on smart phones, more health care organizations are using the mobile hardware to offer improved patient data access for their physicians and nurses, experts say.
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