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Summary: Treo 600 Poor Display
Review: I have Palm Tungsten T2 and when I purchased the Treo I thought the display quality will be the same. Not! I can hardly tell who they are on my family photos. Not just the smaller display size but the technology used for the Treo has lower cost (lower quality) screen. This is a BIG minus for the Treo. Also, not being able to run the Macromedia on the web browser to view some of the realtime financial quotes is another problem almost make me think to switch to a bulkier battery consuming Pocket PC phones. If Handspring can fix these points, this phone will be the most intelligent easy to use phones out in the market today. The feature that you can pull up the phone list by both first name and the last name at the same time is very useful and I use it almost all the time. As an intelligent PHONE no compliants.
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Summary: Lousy Handspring (PalmOne) service
Review: My Treo failed twice and each time I had to pay $25 to get a replacment shipped and an additional $20 to speak with a technical service representative. Thus, an additional $70 due to a defetive product (and the second unit was different from the first)!
Beware - use another manufacturer.
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Summary: Amazing convergent device!
Review: I've been extremely pleased with my purchase. It's allowed me to move to one device instead of separate PDA and phone and in the process I've gotten a smaller size package and loads more power in applications and storage.
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Summary: Caution
Review: I own a Handspring Platinum Visor and a Treo 180. With the Platinum, they dropped the price after I purchased (fine, typical policy). After I bought the Treo, they discontinued the product (again, these things happen). My Treo broke exactly one year after I purchased it. When I tried to return it for repair, the customer service people told me I would need to call the service number and get charged another [$] before I could even get a Return number! This is after several phone calls and email dialogs where they wanted me to go through various steps to isolate the problem (which I happily complied with).I won't go into the lousy service, that could be the carrier. If you are still convinced you want one of these, make sure you keep the packing material - I threw mine out and after a painful 6 months I finally recieved the rebate I was entitled to. I will never buy another device from this company. Great marketing hype but read the fine print carefully!
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Summary: Want secure corporate email to your Treo
Review: To all-I have been reading the reviews and I to love the device, I dont know how I lived without it- but some of you are using eudora mail and others- WHY??? it is not secure and it is a store and forward solution- people take it from an Dir.of IT use JP Mobile software, www.jpmobile.com, these guys have an encrypted behind the firewall solution and they support all devices- palm, pocket pc, rim, symbian and any wap enabled phone and you can synch real time with the corporate server your email, contacts, etc.,- anyway the device is great the but the headset is terrible- get a different one.
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Summary: lucas,ray
Review: I was very impressed with 1) phone 2)internet 3)messages (sms)
however I was very disappointed with 1)very poor resolution of 160x160...I had difficulty to read words...I do use my PDA more then my phone...2)poor camera
why paying $500 for a PDA that got a resolution of 160x160 like my old Visor !!!
I better wait for next generation of Treo (palm version 6/better resolution)
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Summary: What an awesome device
Review: I got this phone from the Sprint PCS Store - I must add right at the begining that Sprint PCS customer service sucks really badly. So I will try not to taint my high regard for this phone with my poor regard for Sprint. Pros:
Great usable keyboard - very easy to use (even though I though the keys would be small but after a couple of hours practice I was a typing maniac Stylus made obsolete - In two days, I have only used the stylus once and that was to play a game - nice design for one-handed-no-stylus operation Long Battery Life - Although I have not tested standby completely, the talk time is pretty long - not sure how long though yet Navigation made simple - plenty of ways to get to the hundreds of features on this phone. The center navigation button is just awesome...very well thought out so that it can access practically anything on the device Included travel charger - Nice to be able to charge when I am out of the home - My Samsung I300 had a cradle with built in charger - very difficult to carry around. Bright Screen - Not to be confused with resolution - the screen is very bright. I have not even taken off the protective cover yet so I am in for another pleasant suprise when that thing finally peels off :) Fast Synching - phew, it is fast with USB and OK with IR. Lots of others but I must also address the cons Cons:
No replaceable battery - Let me say, I hate this - not having the option to change batteries means that I have to be near a main if I run out of juice - also if the battery dies, does the unit become a $600 paper weight? No Blue Tooth - Ahhh, I really wanted to reduce wires - but alas they will probably do it in the next version by which time I will have paid off the mortgage on this phone Low Res Screen - has not bothered me yet but I know it will Lack of Cradle - this is a plus and minus - Minus because there is this synch cable always hanging around your desk making it look cluttered. Plus because you can talk on the phone while it is charging and connected to the computer. All in all a great device, much smaller than my I300 and much more usable. I really like it!
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Summary: Great Unit, still working out some bugs
Review: I was really excited to upgrade from my Samsung i330 Palm phone to this one because I was drawn to the seamless connectivity of shortmail, e-mail and new brower features. It's been a rocky start.
For openers, the phone did not "provision" (configure for web) correctly, and I spent 3 hours on the phone with Sprint Tech while they took stabs in the dark trying to help me. I talked to three people and each of them told me that they didn't know much about the new phone. The next day, I drove (40 infuriated minutes!) to the Sprint Store and the guy behind the counter asked me how to access the phone features. Not a good start. Eventually, despite their clumslyness, the phone did go online.
That's when I learned that the SMS text messaging features I was so excited to use ("hard button on front of device for instant access to Text Messaging") -- HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED BY SPRINT YET. Repeat: the phone's text message button will not work until Sprint does more work to their network! (At which point, I will get a text message and have to call Sprint to tell them that I want to use the new feature). In the meantime, they advised me to use the vision website to send and receive. *grumble* Oh, and for email, count on downloading Eudora - that's the only way to send and receive mail!
This new phone has another serious drawback - the keylock comes on automatically (this can be changed) but when I hit the correct button to turn OFF keylock, the device shuts down! This handset may not be long for this world.
Other, minor complaints are that the hard buttons on the front (phone, calendar, 5 way directional, text messaging and key lock) do not jibe with lots of games. I don't know how to tell Root Beer Tapper that the 'right' button is "text message" - but I don't have an alternative!
So why give such a flawed phone a 5? It has great promise. When I get this auto-shutdown thing sorted out and Sprint gets their text messaging act together, I will be the proudest cell phone owner I know.
Oh - and in case you are wondering - you'll have no trouble dealing with the little keyboard. I typed out a War-and-Peace-length email on day #3 and didn't feel hampered at all.
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Summary: Blows away any other PDA Smartphone device out there today
Review: I have now owned my Treo 600 for over three weeks and it is definitely as good as advertised. After owning an archaic Kyocera QCP Smartphone for almost three years, I feel like I've jumped from the Flintstones age into the Jetsons. I researched the other phones on the market and found this to have the best combination of things I wanted. The biggest thing I was looking for was a PDA Smartphone device was something with a Palm OS that felt more like a phone than a clunky PDA or Pocket PC. The Treo 600 more than fit the bill. The phone works as well as my old phone and the options like speakerphone, mute, and call waiting are very easy to access during a call. The keyboard is small and takes a little getting used to but sure beats using a stylus to do that cryptic graffiti stuff. You can actually get away with not using a stylus for most of the things you can do on this phone, which I really like. The general usability is great. The navigator buttons on the center of the phone are awesome! The color and screen backlight is really bright which is great for daytime reading, with an option to dim when in a darker envrionment. It's pretty easy to configure Palm application favorites, frequently dialed phone numbers, and favorite websites to be accessible with the single touch of a button. It's also really easy to navigate through contacts, as well as switch back and forth between the web and the Palm apps. It syncs with my Palm desktop software seamlessly, and I really like the fact that the provided conduit is not a huge cradle but an easily portable cable. The SD card slot works great for playing or viewing MP3s, pictures, and other large documents. The built-in camera is cool but quite frankly I didn't buy the Treo for that. It's just a nice-to-have as the picture quality is mediocre at best, compared to a real digital camera. One downside is that there is no built-in Bluetooth card, which I was looking for. The phone is pretty expensive but thanks to the Amazon and Sprint rebates I ended up getting it for less than half its list price, which is a steal given all it can do. In Southern California the Sprint coverage is pretty good, or at least better than the horrible AT&T service I used to have. I was also very impressed with Amazon's ability to deliver this phone within a week of when I ordered it, especially given the fact that it was in the middle of the holiday season and the availability shown online was unknown. Overall, I love this phone!!
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Summary: Great Phone, Sprint Bad Service
Review: The Good: Phone and PDA all in one, easy sync to MS Outlook, built in software all solid. Large display and quite clear/bright. Lots of software. Takes memory card. Supposely SDIO compatible but I hear mixed comments on this. The Bad: Keypad is a bit small. Phone is a bit heavier than the normal cell so you need to hold with both hands. Menus could be more intutive- I've spent hours trying to figure it out. Sometimes the touchscreen does not do anything when I nagivate with the stylus. Camera pics are not the greatest but not a big deal. I could never figure how to turn off the screen when talking on the phone. However I am foregoing all of these "minor" problems because I still like the phone. One thing I am afraid to drop it. Buy the phone insurance. The Ugly: Sprint. I am returning the phone because my callers say that the phone reception goes in and out. Now I am in the process of calling Sprint. To my dismay I've been on hold for 25 minutes and they want to charge me for a full months of service though I had the phone for 1 week. Sprint has me on hold because I want to speak to a supervisor. I did not get a "free" phone. I paid $450 for the Treo + $100 a month for service. I am trying to figure out why I am unjustly paying for service that I cannot use. Well if this does not go well then a letter to the CEO of Sprint and to the Better Business Bureau would be my next step. Summary: I'm going back to stick with AT&T Digital One Rate. My old TDMA phone is looking better every passing moment. I'm going to wait 6 months for the next batch. Well the Sprint supervisor finally came back on. I am being charged $162.53 for the activation minus $50.00 for my displeasure. What a rip.
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