The Treo 650 smartphone from palmOne makes it easier than ever to stay connected. It simplifies your life by combining a compact mobile phone with email, an organizer, messaging,... more
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quality material. Custom made and perfectly adapted to the shape of your PalmOne Treo 650! Extremely resistant, the manufacturing process guarantees an extreme ease of application. Simple: You can apply it and remove it without leaving any trace. Your new skin is delivered ready to use. All you have to do is apply it by following the enclosed instructions. Shown visuals are only examples. It is up to you to personalize your device with the photo of your choice!
Just keep one resting in your cradle and it's ready whenever you need it. Just pop it in your pocket or bag and you're good to go that extra mile at work, chatting with your friends or on the road. Can be recharged while in the phone or using the Cradle Kit.
combination mobile headset and stereo headphones. The omni-directional Electret condenser microphone lets you speak clearly while the 96dB Dynamic Receiver helps you hear even in noisy rooms. Plus, the durable, break-resistant cord is designed to last. And with a handy Push-to-Answer Button right on the cord, you won't even have to touch the phone to answer a call.
A review by Hasselnott on Palm Treo 650 May 16th, 2007
Author's product rating:
Look & Feel
Durability & Robustness
Battery standby time
Value for money
Range of features
Advantages:
Everything
Disadvantages:
Can be slow, resets more than it should .
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Treo 650
What can I say? This is without a doubt the most amazing phone that I have ever owned. I have a £30 student contract with orange which includes 200minutes and 1000 text messages. I have had my phone for a year and in all this time have only had one problem with it. When I went travelling my treo completely stopped working, but orange were really good about it and immediately sent someone round with a replacement.
Personally I would immediately recommend a case for this phone as unless your really careful with it (which I certainly am not) all the paint will come off and the screen with get dirty and scratches easily. Which is terrible after all the treo does not come cheap.
FEATURES
*Slider on top – to switch between noise on and all noise off, can be customised.
*Buttons programmed in on front of phone - Home – takes you back to your home page, where all your applications are. - Green phone button – to answer calls and to take you to orange’s own home. - Red phone button – to hang up calls and turn off phone. If held down it turns off aerial . - Menu button – to view menus at the top of any application. Is very frequently used and also contains shortcuts. - Calendar – 5 different views, with countless features, including alarms, and the option to hotsyc with outlook or the palm software. - Messages – to view sms’s. You can choose to view them as chat logs, which is very cool, and makes it so easy to read your text conversations. - Qwerty keypad which has a lot of shortcuts, but once you’ve learnt your way round it, its remarkably fast to type. And I warn you once you use a qwerty keypad you will never go back. It is just so easy and fast. Infact because I use my treo more than my computer, I find it faster to type on the treo. It also includes a touchscreen, which you only NEED to use occasionally or in 3rd party software. But it can be used all the time. I enjoy playing games with it and drawing on my phone.
*Buttons on left side - Volume buttons - Button that can be programmed for anything. I find it works best with realplayer.
*Main programs included The main programs I use are as follows -Calculator – can be used either with touch screen or keypad. - Camera/camcorder – the camera isn’t too good. But its good enough to capture pictures during the day, or with good lighting. An included flash would have been useful. But what can I say? This phone has to have at least one flaw, and the camera isn’t the most important feature to me. This also is the same for the camcorder and I found it very useful that there was no time limit on each film, so with a good memory card you can capture a lot! - Contacts – obviously this had to be included. But notable features that make this address book different include being able to add literally countless details about each contact, including ones you can personalise. I like this for adding the category “where do I know this person from?”!! Also there is the category feature enabling easier browsing of contacts. Obviously there is also the ability to add a persons picture, which is nice when they call you! - Documents – Well this is a program letting you create and sync word, excel and PowerPoint documents with your computer. Obviously these all include cut down versions of their computer counterparts, but still are quite impressive. These can be used for taking lecture/meeting notes, managing accounts, and viewing power points. Although you can only create basic power points, you can view power points created on a computer exactly as they appear on your computer. On a personal level this was excellent for keeping lecture notes with me. - Email – I’ve had a few problems with this, but when set up correctly it is brilliant. It has the same technology as a blackberry to retrieve emails so you don’t have to even type in your details. Very fast and very good. However a setback is that it only supports pop email accounts, so unless you pay for yours there are just a few free email addresses that are compatible, I like gmail from google. - Hotsync – enables you to sync all your data to your computer. This means all your stuff is backed up, so should your phone break you still have everything, including sms messages! Is also the way you put software on your computer. A side note is that the palm software included is really good. Its easy to use and contains special features that add into word so if your making a word document on your computer you can easily send it to your phone. - Internet – Is fairly slow, but what do you expect from a phone. To be honest it is good enough to get by and google for phones is very very useful as can choose to seach the web, or just mobile-adapted pages, and ofcourse the usual images (which you can tap on and choose to save to your phone). I use this when I’m out my house, or am too lazy to turn on my computer. I use it most to check my hotmail account. - Media – Used to view pictures and films you take, and also any pictures you save on your phone. Can view the pictures in numerous ways. You can change the name of pictures, send them by bluetooth, infrared or sms. A little fun feature is the ability to draw and write on the pictures. The only downside is that I find viewing pics off my memory card very very slow. - Memos – Is actually my most used feature. Is quite basic, you can categorize notes to keep them tidy. It comes in useful for jotting down ideas, phone numbers, literally anything. Much better than a notebook as can “archive” old notes (meaning to save old ones you want to keep on your computer but taking them oof your phone.) - Realplayer – an average mp3 player. Doesn’t play wmas, but is still very good. You can create your own playlists which is very good. But quite basic. - Tasks – Again you can categorize your tasks. You can add importance, extra details and alarms. Very good. It also feeds into your calendar to work together. - World clock – Shows a cute world map, is where you set your phone alarm and view world times.
*System – - Bluetooth – Can connect to any other bluetooth device. Very good for sending pictures to and from your friends phone. - Prefs – Allows you to customize a lot of features. - Security – set passwords etc. For example, my phone locks if I don’t touch it 3 hrs, totally customisable. - Sounds – Can change ringtone, message tone and any other sounds for both when your phone sound is set to on and when its set to off.
*Software I’d recommend – -Adobe reader – to read pdfs. Is really good. - Tcmp – the core media player. With codecs you can play a wide range of videos on your treo, it works best with music videos. - Agile messenger – your can connect to msn, aol, icq or yahoo messenger. Good if you like to chat. - Bejeweled – the classic game for your treo. You would not believe how many people steal my phone to play this on. Also its made more fun on the treo because of the touchscreen.
There are countless other free software, or “freeware” you can find doing a simple search on the net. The best thing is to try as much as you like to find software to suit you, from diet software to ebook readers.
The basic software included integrates together, eg. When you enter a birthday in your phone book it appears each year in your calendar.
To conclude, there is so much more I could write, but I’ve spend over an hour on it so cant. I have had my treo for over a year, and though there are the newer 680 and 750 models out, I still don’t feel the need to upgrade as the treo 650 offers me everything I could want and more. Anything I need can be added on with software.
If you have any questions I would be happy to answer them, I love my treo sometimes I think too much, and if there’s anything I don’t know about it, then Ill want to know.
Advantages: Super Quality screen, easy2use keyboard, All in one device, bluetooth, infra, EDGE, lot palm based software. Disadvantages: No Wi-Fi, low build in memory, so so battery life.
...the old days with my Palm IIIc that you almost have to hide under your car if you wish to see any info.
THE TREO PHONE FUNCTION
* the Treo 650 comes with a normal phone function plus some basic application.
* To on the phone, what you have to do is just press and hold long the "switch off/hang up" button then the phone network will on, NOT like normal handphone use it to switch off your phone. In treo you use it to on and also off your network ... ...choice of photos in your Palm desktop software.
* there will be no caller group/ringtone assign to contacts, except using some 3rd party software OR assign your contacts at "favorites" page.
* The overall calls quality of this unit is still acceptable for me, even there is some complain over the internet but for myself that may also not always using this unit to make calls, i face no problem at all. * The phone also comes with a very simple call ...
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Advantages: Compact for what it does, great features, Mp3 Player and Camera, Web Browsing Disadvantages: Sometimes heats up and reboots
I received the Palm One Treo 650 Smartphone for £30 with a 12 month contract on Orange. I paid £40 a month for 300 Xnet minutes (which means you can use the phone to call any other network at any time of day) and 300 evening and weekend texts per month. I found the deal on fabfones.mobiles4everyone.com (to find it, click on "all phones" and locate it among the many available handsets). This was one year ago and now you can get the phone for free ... ...Specifications
- Operating System : Palm OS 5.4
- Contact List
- Calendar
- SMS / MMS / Photo Messaging
- Blazer Web Browser
- Camera software, including photo viewer
- To Do List; Memo Pad
- Advanced Calculator
- Palm™ Desktop 4.1 for Windows and Macintosh
- Link to Microsoft Outlook [Windows only]
- Email options: POP3 email client included
- CityTime world clock
Additional Software - RealPlayer
- Tasks
- Memos
- Calculator
- World ...
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The PalmOne Treo 650 is a very expensive phone / PDA. Fortunately the company I work for supplies this to me other wise I probably would not have given it a second glance.
The Treo 650 looks a tidy aesthetically pleasing item, with a reasonable size screen showing 320 x 320 pixel resolution and is touch sensitive. The keyboard on the Treo 650 is a delight, it sits underneath the screen and has large sized buttons with a raised face to allow quick ... ...the keyboard in the centre of the phone. There are six more buttons along side this and are basic quick launch buttons to save you scrolling through the menu, I like this as it can save you a lot of time. Along with the main menu button and all the extra's you can access the menu directly from the touch sensitive screen which many will find much easier. There one other thing I really like about this, how many times have you been out somewhere and ...
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Advantages: The most useful gadget I own - phone, notebook, entertainment and navigation in one Disadvantages: A bit of a brick by modern standards
Basics
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You get a Palm 5 PDA and phone in one. While each is useful in its own right, the two put together is something else!
The PDA side of things will be familiar to any who have used previous Palm PDAs - the usual Calendar, Address Book, Memo pad, and so on are there. It runs most Palm software (but not all) and uses the normal Palm Desktop software to sync with a PC.
In addition, you get an mp3 player (a version of Real Player), ... ...600 160x160 display and some Palm applications take advantage of the extra resolution. It shows good colour and is easily bright enough to use in outdoor daylight. Most of the operations of the phone / PDA can be achieved by the touch sensitive screen and are generally designed so that you can use a finger to press buttons and so on without having to get out the stylus.
PDA Operation
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Unlike normal Palm PDAs the Treo 650 ...
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Advantages: Phone and PDA wraped into one, Big screen, Sd card compatable, Lots of software avalable Disadvantages: Big, Locks up sometimes
This is one mighty phone whith heaploads of features from phone applications to pda applications.
The phone itself
Its not the most beautiful phone or the smallest phone on the market but as you can see it has a nice big, Bright, clear screen. It has an external SD card slot and an external sim slot. Next to the sd card there is the infared port. It has a five way navigation button which means you dont need to use a stylus to select what you want. ... ...the phone on. Anouther nice feature is that you can have the phone off and just access the pda featuers.
The screen
The screen is a very clear and bright and is a 320x320 color display with 16-bit color (displays over 65,000 colors).
. It isnt glossy which makes in not have glare or reflection.
Soft ware
The treo comes with several good applications including microsoft word, spread sheets, Web, Memos, Realplayer, contacts, messaging and versa ...
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Advantages: brilliant bright screen, palm os platform Disadvantages: arial sticking out, rather big design-form
...Back in June when Palm had the 'football game' competition on, I won my trusty little (well actually rather large) treo650. I believe that the only reason I find it large is because I have had lighter, smaller sony ericsson phones beforehand.
I wasn't too sure that I would enjoy the 'Treo experience' at first, but boy I was wrong. I love the phone to bits. I know there was a few problems with the original 650s sent out with the original firmware, but as far as I'm concerned it is absolutely brilliant.
The Screen:-
I admitt that it is not the latest technology, as there are 262k screens out there now. But the large screen (I think it's about 2 inches square) is rather adequate and bright even though it is only 65k.
The Keypad:-
This is another factor of the phone which I believe to be rather annoying at first. Once I got...
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Advantages: .Simple, cheap, very good. Disadvantages: .Cost, plust the fact that it will become out of date one day.
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As for availability, you will find these all over the place, high street shops, supermarkets, online, everywhere. If buying mail order, just be aware some companies charge a fortune for postage.
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Advantages: 3G, Nice camera, MMC, Good feedback keypad, light sensor, theme, good loudspeaker, bluetooth. Disadvantages: Selected MMC card only, no infra, soft ringtone, low battery life, no full support pic msg, camera no protection cover.
...phone model now like the Nokia 7610/6630 is their fonts is TOO small! I really wish Nokia can give me back the fonts size of my Nokia 7650 which is bold and easy to read all time.
THE PHONE SENSOR
* The phone of this model comes with a auto contrast control sensor, it mean the contrast of the LCD will automatic adjust according to the surrounding light condition which is very "high tech" and good for me, even it is not a new thing anymore as Nokia 7650 do comes with two sensor.
* Nokia 6630 also will switch on and off the keypad lights accordng to situation to save battery life, which is GREAT and something that needed in PalmOne Treo650 but Nokia has using it here...good work!
THE PHONE MEMORY & MMC
* This phone comes with 10MB build in memory and included the 64MB of reduced size MMC which enough for most not so heavy user...
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Call Related Features: Caller ID, 6-way calling, call history, Caller ID, call history
Dial Features: Speed dialling
Operating system / software
OS Provided: Palm OS 5.4
Software: Calculator, HotSync Manager, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Web Browser, AudiblePlayer, World clock, Memos, Astraware Zap!2016 , Phone, Camera, Media, RealPlayer for Palm, DataViz Documents To Go 7, Palm VersaMail, Messaging
Manufacturer's product description
The Treo 650 smartphone from palmOne makes it easier than ever to stay connected. It simplifies your life by combining a compact mobile phone with email, an organizer, messaging, and web access. There's also Bluetooth technology so you can connect wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices. Not to mention an MP3 player, a digital camera that captures video, and a vibrant color screen that brings everything to life - all in a device that's still small enough to fit in your pocket. Seems like Treo smartphones just keep getting smarter.
08.10.2007
