I bought Treo 750 around four months behind, to replace my old-horrible-four-years-old cell phone. The reason I choose Treo 750 as my new replacement cellphone is simple, because it has QWERTY keyboard and I have used the Palm before and I have been a devoted fan of the operating system.
Treo 750 is a very good and practical device. Powered Samsung processor, 300MHz, for me its pretty fast for phone applications. However, the processor speed Its size, not fast enough for applications, especially those required higher speed processor such as games. Treo 750 screen resolution also too small compared to other palm based mobile phones, it has only 240 x 240 TFT touchscreen, smaller than 320 x 320 that Palm Centro has.
What I like from this phone are 1- The keyboard works so great, very comfort, I can use the phone only with one hand. This helped me a lot when sending SMS or email. I often composing long emails by using this phones. I rarely uses the stylus to navigate the Windows interfaces because I feel so comfort controlling the phone through the keyboard.
2-Treo 750 phone is ease of use phone. The phone is well functions, I can hear clearly the voice phone conversations and rarely lost my GSM signal though I on my room. This different with my previous phone, Benq-Siemens which often lost GSM signal while am in my room or office. I also like the fact I can easily use contacts by address book, pictures or speed key dialing.
3- It has 3G/HSDPA built in, since I often browsing through the phone and making the phone as a modem through dial up networking (DUN), the HSDPA features helps me a lot, it gives me fast internet connection. However, the HSDPA features can only be activated if you upgrade the OS from Windows Mobile 5.1 to 6.0.
What I don't like from this phone are 1- Windows Mobile is so lame. The OS really greedily eats the phone memory. I had difficulties trying to free enough memory to run programs even though I deleted programs. Though I have installed 2GB of miniSD, shortage memory on the phone often happened since Palm only gave Treo 750 64MB internal memory.
2- Bad power management. Treo 750 battery drains quickly. It only stand for a day if I do active making phone calls. Moreover if I activated the Internet connection. My battery depleted faster than expected. As a result, I have to carry spare battery everyday.
3- The phone camera is crap. The Treo 750 has 1.3 megapixel built-in camera, however, the picture quality resulted are just poor. Especially when I took pictures indoors. I rarely use the camera.
In conclusion, for me Palm Treo 750 a functional and practical device, mainly for business users. However Windows Mobile operating system was disappointing. With some features that Treo 750 has, I still recommend you to have this phone.
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Advantages: Internet and email access is easy. Texting is very user friendly, quick and simple. Disadvantages: Camera resolution, no wireless connectivity, and fiddly keyboard.
mbrown278 20.08.2009 ·
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