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While the Treo 600 or 650 may be just a memory (albeit good and bad) for a lot of the Palm users, a class action lawsuit that originally began in 2005 has just received a settlement offer. This lawsuit was dealing with the many issues that were experienced with those models and claimed that Palm “misrepresented claims regarding the phones in advertising” and in turn delivered phones that “were “inherently defective” and “failed at unacceptably high rates.”

“Palm is entering into this settlement to avoid burdensome and costly litigation. The settlement is not an admission of wrong-doing or an indication that any law was violated,” the company said in its summary of the settlement.

The offer is simple, Palm will give a $75 cash rebate that you can use to replace a Treo 600 and $50 cash rebate that you can use to replace a Treo 650. The cash rebates are assuming that you had to replace your phone two or more times after your purchase. In addition to the cash rebate Palm is also offering a “right of repair” form that can be used by customers who had trouble but never had to replace their phone.

Via [SlashPhone]

Hopefully this will be the final settlement that we see Vonage having to payout, because at this point it seems endless and its a wonder they have anything left to still operate. The recent Vonage settlement with AT&T over the packet-based telephone system that allows “voice conversations to be carried over the Internet” was just settled. Originally the details of the settlement were not disclosed however PC World is reporting that it was for an approximate $39 million, other terms still have not been disclosed.

Read [Consumerist]