Palm Treo 500

I like the palm treo 500 - it looks good and provides plenty of features for users on the go, my favourite being the email feature - now I get emails delivered to my phone I can't imagine life without it. The Palm treo seems to have everything, but one problem remains - it just isn't hard wearing enough. Within the first week of me getting my phone the screen had light scratches on it and by the end of the first month it got so bad that it was hard ...
...a well kept screen, the palm treo though hasn't followed in this tradition! Luckily I managed to find some screen polish on ebay that manages to get rid of these scratches, but it does get annoying to keep having to "fix" the screen, so I recommend getting a screen protector if you do get this phone. The usb socket can be temperamental at the best of times, when I plug in the phones charger I have to fiddle around with the lead and get it into exactly ...

jack2794 02.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Palm Treo 500

Having used Palm for several years in varying shape and form, when looking for a new mobile phone to replace a Nokia, given good experiences of Palm in the past, it seemed a good idea to give their new (as was then) smart phone a try. The first three or so months of owning the phone proved the 500 has plenty of features and is rather user friendly, it felt and looked great and build quality hadn't proven to be much of a problem, however after this ...
...be the socket used to plug in a USB cable / charger. The quality of this is has proven to be questionable, considering that it is very easy to disconnect the socket from the main circuit board inside the phone, making charging either challenging or impossible. Other build quality issues include how well the keys are fixed. The qwerty keyboard stays in place without issue and feels very robust, but I have had problems where the hot keys used to control ...

goblin92 20.08.2009 · Read full review
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I chose the Palm Treo 500 for the fact that it has a full keypad for typing, in the style of the blackberry and iphone design rather than having to rely on predictive text etc for email, and although the buttons are naturally small, this aspect of the phone is still very appealing. Caps lock typing can be very awkward however... As a macintosh user, I wasn't sure about using a windows based product, but the functionality is very good and simple to ...
...It is important with the Palm Treo and similar products to not expect too much from these facilities - I use the email on the move to answer quick queries and alert me to any issues that need attention, rather than expecting to be able to see all detail on a 1.5" x 2" screen. The phone overall is great and I would recommend - It is worth keeping protected when being carried around as the screen could be easily damaged and I wouldn't like to drop ...

coureur 05.03.2009 · Read full review
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I got this phone in december and it was the first new phone i had bought in years. The menu was a little complicated to access because there are 2 of them offering different things but this just takes time to get used to. Love accessing the interent but it is not as easy to view websites and complete tasks as i expected. I just thought it would be full webpages shrank and you just scrolled but it is the same as the older WAP phones where there are lots of different pges to scoll thro just to get to one part of a homepage for example. Load ringer and the option of increased memory is a bonus. Quite nice little camera. ...

CoupeChris 21.03.2008
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Review of Palm Treo 500