PDA maker Palm Inc. announced that its Palm Treo 750 smartphone would now be generally available across Europe. The company added it has upgraded the device to support 3G networks with high speed HSDPA data service.

Palm Treo 750v was previously available in the U.K. on Vodafone’s 3G UMTS network and across part of Western Europe. The handsets will now be available at Palm’s online stores in Europe and at retail outlets too. It will be priced at 365 pounds and VAT as applicable. Treo 750 is based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 software. It is also capable of adding user interface enhancements like Google search integration and ability to quickly find and dial a contact. It also supports push delivery of emails from servers running Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2. It comes preloaded with Microsoft’s Office Mobile application suite.

Palm’s European vice president Roy Bedlow said in a statement there are over five million Treo smartphones sold globally so far and Palm intends to focus on expanding the Treo footprint.

Cingular users get the first Palm Treo smart device running on Cingular’s 3G/UMTS network. The Treo 750 five-band phone runs Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push Technology and offers Palm’s exclusive usability improvements plus business features, including email, security, and web access on the go.

The Treo 750 also has a full QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3-megapixel camera; a 240×240 touch screen and support for Bluetooth stereo headsets. With a built-in 60MB of user-available storage, using the miniSD slot to add memory cards of up to 2GB, which can be used to storing data, photos, music and video, can enhance memory.

Cingular says, the Treo 750 is being positioned as more of a business device and will cost $500 with a two-year contract (but a $100 mail-in rebate will bring that price down to $400). It will be available at Cingular’s Web site and retail stores, and through Palm’s Web site.

This was interesting and if you are a fitness freak you’ll go “Yippee” with this news. How would you like it if your mobile could give you workout instructions? Oh yes it’s happening for you fitness junkies wherever you go you can access your workout schedule with PumpOne.

Using WAP technology that operates on virtually any web enabled cell phone you can access PumpOne mobile, which specializes in visual workout tutorials that you can download to your iPod, iPod Nano, or Palm Treo! PumpOne’s workouts are available for regular cell phones, too, as part of the new PumpOne Mobile service.

Just make sure you have a data plan on your cell phone and you are set to workout for a price. For 24 hours access for one workout you pay $2.99 for all workouts for 7 days - $14.99 and for all workouts for 30 days. Click here for more.

Seems that the future of Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) won’t be in BlackBerry hardware sales, but from software licensing to other phone companies. Today they announced that the Treo 650 will install their push e-mail software on the Treo 650 early next year. Strange since rumors of the new Treos coming out soon have been floating around the web for the last couple of weeks.

And interestingly enough further down in the article we find this gem.

Palm will start selling the BlackBerry Treo 650 right around the time it introduces a new Treo that runs Windows Mobile. The Windows Treo will use Microsoft-developed push e-mail technology that is expected to be part of a new version of Windows Mobile available later this year.

Treo 600 users are out of luck.

– via MacCentral