A few days ago, the company formerly known as PalmOne, currently known as Palm has just announced the availability of the Palm Ultralightweight Bluetooth Headset. The Ultralightweight Wireless Bluetooth Headset weighs a mere 9 grams and has interchangeable earpieces to ensure user comfort. Unlike its predecessor, the Ultralightweight model has a single button that answer, end, redial and mute calls. Just like its predecessor, the Palm Ultralightweight Bluetooth Headset has the standard multi-connector plug used by the Palm Treo 600, Treo 700p and Treo 700w.

The headset itself looks pretty good and the addition of interchangeable earpieces is a big plus if it has the same quality as that of the Jabra Bluetooth headsets.

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At almost the same time, Palminfocenter has previewed the Palm Treo 700P. This is *not* the Windows Mobile-based Treo but instead, it still runs the venerable PalmOS (Garnet 5.4.9). The form factor is very much the same as the Treo 700W but I’m expecting better performance from the 700P because its hardware is better suited, in my opinion, to PalmOS.

Treo 700P runs a 312 MHz Intel XScale processor and it has a 128 MB of non-volatile memory where 60 MB is available to the user. The built-in camera has 1.3 megapixels and can take pictures at a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024. It can also record video clips at 352 x 288 resolution. Palm seems to have listened to its users this time because they also added a built-in voice recorder and its expansion slot now supports SDIO operations BUT (and this is a big but) it still doesn’t seem to support wi-fi SD cards. A notable feature addition is its Dial-up Networking (DUN) support “out of the box”. More info at the Palm’s Treo 700P website.