New Zealanders can now buy a Palm smart phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 in their own country, the handset maker has announced. Middle Earth's main telco, Telecom New Zealand, has now begun offering the EvDO-equipped Treo 700wx.

The 700wx sports a 240 x 240 display, 64MB of user-accessible Flash memory, Bluetooth 1.2 and an SD IO-compatible memory card slot. The handset's equipped with dial-up networking support so it can be used as a laptop modem. ®

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