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# Friday, March 11, 2005

Got my Treo 650

Yesterday I received my Treo 650. I'll post a full review later on (compare it from the perspective of some one who has used Pocket PC from 1.0 to 2003 SE and SmartPhone 2002/3). The last Palm I used was a Palm V many years ago. And before that I used the US Robotics Palm Pilot 1000 (upgraded), a Palm III and finally a Palm V and Vx.

My intial thoughts:

  • Form Factor ROCKS
  • Not much bigger than my Audiovox 5600
  • Much more stable when making/receiving calls than Windows Mobile
  • Exhchange Mail Sync/Calendar Sync mostly works. Lots of missing features, and some that are better.
  • The screen resolution rocks
  • Not having a multi-threaded OS sucks
  • Having 1 bagillion apps to chose from is good. Everything I used on the PPC is available on the Palm.
  • Limiting Categories to 15 characters SUCKS! Common Palm!!! you fixed Contacts by adding support for 3 addresses and more than 5 phone numbers but you left this part BROKEN.
  • Bluetooth Sync with my Tablet PC is 5000% better than trying to make Bluetooh + ActiveSync + Audiovox work. In fact I never did get it to work and I spent an hour on it. With my Treo I spend 2 min.

I already love the device. But, it's 4:53 pm, and it's 85 degrees in San Francisco. I'm out of here!

 

Saturday, March 12, 2005 4:26:03 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
got my own treo 650 a week ago. awesome device, love palm os, desktop software works great on Windows 2000 Pro, can't get it to work AT ALL on Win XP Home. What's with that? Is there a fix? Somebody (anybody) got a clue? I'll keep searchin' ... slammed in a 1/2 gig SD card from Best Buy, and MP3 player too !!! size and weight with a usable 2 thumb keyboard for (work) email while on the boat is unbeatable, and i can still stick it in my pocket !! i'm sold, just gotta get palm desktop and quick install to work with xp and heaven is here !
Gene Jurrens
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