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A couple of weeks ago, Palm posted then quickly pulled a long awaited ROM update, called a maintenance release (MR), for the version of its Treo 700p smartphone carried by Sprint. According to a posting on Palm's blog, there were isolated reports of an installation issue that causes the device to continuously reset when applying the software update.

A few days ago, Palm's Paul Loeffler posted an update to this blog entry, basically saying the Treo 700p MR would continue to be MIA, both for the pulled Sprint version and the yet-to-be released Verizon edition, with no timeframe for when it'll be back up. Here’s what Loeffler had to say:

We continue to investigate the Sprint Treo 700p MR installation issue reported by some customers and have been collecting phones from customers for analysis, as well as rerunning our suite of update tests on another large sample of phones to try to reproduce the issue. We would like to provide an exact date for when the MR will be reposted, but we aren't able to at this time. Also, we still aren't able to estimate when the Verizon Wireless Treo 700p MR will be available for download.

Users have reported a number of bugs and performance issues concerning Palm's Treo 700p since its release a year ago. These issues were to have finally been addressed by the 700p MR (see links below for more details).

Meanwhile, Sprint has already released the Treo 755p, the follow up to the Treo 700p, and Verizon is supposed to follow suit shortly.