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The new firmware update for Cingular and Former AT&T Treo 650's includes several added key features. An update of Versamail includes an updated ISP list for easy POP setup. Keeping with e-mail updates the blazer browser now has support for gMail attachment downloads. Bluetooth has been tweaked for better performance with motorola headsets as well as moto BT speakers. Car-Kit fiends will be happy to see an update to the way the Treo handles bluetooth carkits. We are happy to see a second update to call quality, the first was a great improvement over the first firmware but it was still slightly lacking. The voice quality tweaks are reported to reduce audible echo. There is now a call fail beep like that which is available on most normal handsets. Power consumption has been tweaked with a change in the screen power timeout during calls reducing it to 30 seconds, if you updated to 1.15 however this will remain unchanged.

Cingular specific updates include an upgrade for voicemail notification/integration. Like the 1.15 update the 1.17 includes the GetGood application for downloading and installing GoodLink.

Third-party software included on the Palm installtion CD also gets upgraded for compatibility with the new firmware release. Documents To Go is updated to 7.0.0.5, Pocket Express to 1.3 and the space game Zap!2016 to 1059.

Like all firmware updates you will need to backup all your data prior to flashing.


This is the second recent update/tweak for the Tero 650 by palm. We are glad to see that they are actually keeping up with the handset, unlike some of their other smartphone iterations in the past. At the end of October Palm announed a redesigned sim card tray to reduce the amount of resets and seemingly random power-offs. If the Treo was bumped in a certain way, the sim card would loose contact with the phone causing the wireless radio to turn off and making the Treo reset. The new sim card included a rib to keep the card pressed against the internal contacts.

To download the firmware update visit palm at: http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo650updater/cingular.html

To get a free replacement sim card tray (for users who purchased their handset prior to 7/31) visit Cingular at: http://supportcingular.atgnow.com/cng/tutorials/KB53306.html