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A little more than four months after Palm released the Windows Mobile-based Treo 700w, it is set to announce a Palm OS version that can connect to EV-DO networks. The company on Monday will unveil the new model, which is expected to be called the 700p.
Palm enthusiast sites have been talking about the 700p ever since Palm broke it's tradition and chose Windows Mobile for their new 700w smart phone, which was released in January. At the time, Palm CEO Ed Colligan made it clear that the company planned to release versions of the Treo based on Palm OS. The 700p will be the first Palm OS-based smartphone since the release of the Treo 650 in October 2004.
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It hasn't been officialy announced when the devices will become available, although various postings on Palm comunity sites point toward a late-May.

The 700p is not expected to look all that different from the 700w, except for the operating system. Some mobile-application developers have bemoaned the lack of a Palm OS-based Treo on a fast wireless network such as EV-DO and have embraced the Windows operating system for some new multimedia applications.