The New Treo 680 -- Not so Affordable after all

Looks like the new Treo 680 won't be as affordable as everybody had expected. It's debut in the Philippines has it at P29,800 (from the Philippine Palm website). A few more bucks and you've got the Treo 650 Black Tie edition already. It's approximately P10,000 more than what the US Palm Website is offering.

Others are arguing that it's just in the right price range, considering the software available in the Palm libraries, then perhaps it's worth it. But others say that it's short-changing the consumers. With only a VGA camera in a time where megapixel cameras are all over the place. No WiFi, in almost the same price range the SonyEricsson P990 has WiFi and a megapixel camera at that. Then of course, the aging operating system. This has not been updated for years and Palm has just been tweaking it for survival.

I guess the antennae is worth P6000.00 huh? Because other than moving some of the buttons and slots around, slapping in a little bit more RAM, and chopping off the antenna, it's just the Treo 650 in disguise.