Palm Treo 680

Advantages: Small and well made, Palm OS
Disadvantages: a bit fiddly

...This is a well thought-out device with a good touch sensitive screen and a surprisingly usable keyboard, even for people like me, with fat fingers. I have used Palm OS PDAs for many years so I have a lot of data and applications from previous devices that I want to maintain and I was keen to stay with the Palm OS operating system rather than switch to Windows at this stage. It was easy to move the Treo 680 from my Palm T5 without any loss of data. Now I only need to carry one device instead of a PDA and a phone. The stylus is a bit fiddly to use when compared to the chunky T5 one, but then the stylus is not needed as much given that the keyboard replaces the need for text entry with the stylus. The operating system is easy to use and syncs without any problems to my old iMac (Mac OS X version 10.2.8) In the few months I have owned...

AndrewPo 16.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 680

Handspring, PalmOne TREO 680

Advantages: It's the new Treo 650! But it's a 680!
Disadvantages: None

...The Treo 680. A fantastic upgrade from the treo 600 and treo 650. Unless you are an Orange customer. I found out to my disgust that when my Treo 650 went badly wrong, Orange could no replace with another 650 nor could they upgrade me to a 680, as their agreement with Treo had ended. Sad. So did my contract with Orange. Treo was and remains the best on the market in my mind. They pre-date the Blackberry and have always been better than any Blackberry model. Easy to use, fast and full of so many features, you'll think it's the Sunday Times in your palm. The Treo 680 in grey and silver - and I think there is a red version on the market, too. Many of the original features from its old 600 and 650 predecessors are retained, such as the single switch at the top of the unit to switch the ringer on or off. Simple. And miles...

prometheusradio 01.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 680

Treo 680 Smartphone

Advantages: Small, Light. easy to use and sync with desktop
Disadvantages: Slippery to hold but silicone case solves that

...Having been a PDA user for many years now, I decided to go for a smartphone on my next upgrade as carrying both a PDA & a phone around in places where I don't take my handbag ( like walking the dog in the park or going to the beach while on holiday) was begining to be a chore. The Treo 680 is small, light and slim enough to go in your pocket and with the keyguard activated there is no fear of making an unscheduled phone call by mistake! I have a silver one but it has now been launched in a bright red colour in this country! Phone calls can be made directly from the contacts pages and there are all the items like missed calls, dialled calls, and received calls lists to help keep track of your phone bill. Also one can programme different ringtones for each group of contacts so you can tell who is calling before you get to pick up...

GretelNevols 17.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 680

Palm

Advantages: Nice design
Disadvantages: crap camera

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Nazuku 09.08.2007 · Read review
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My review on PalmOne Treo 650

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.

...It is actually one of my dream comes true product, plus something that i have been waiting for some long time. i still remember year ago, when i fall in love with the PalmOne Tc due to it mini keyboard & build in Wi-Fi, BUT later found out so many bad thing of this product plus the so expense price tag so i wait til today, finally a palmOne products that all in one OR what i need. but i do understand this is not a easy review, as the Treo 650 can do TOO much plus LOT of function that you can do...so if any point that i didn't touch, you can either ask or request me to add later. BUT i will not touch any of the standard PDA or much of phone software here but only some of the point that related or new to Treo 650. THE TREO PACKAGE * The package comes with a Treo 650 unit, a charges, battery, USB Cable, cds, a manual with a screen...

ciaotalker 01.05.2005 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 650

Palm Treo 750v - brilliant

Advantages: One machine to carry. Quick internet access. Easy to operate
Disadvantages: Lousy camera, ringtones

...surprising how quick you can get with this using your thumbs. You can also access a keyboard using your stylus, it doesn't however do hand writing recognition. After doing again some research on keyboards, I purchase last week a DELL blue tooth keyboard model no. XTBT01 for £40 including postage. This sounds expensive, but it has been worth it for the quality of the product. I touch type and with my palm pda had an infrared keyboard which I used particularly in meetings to type minutes. Sometimes I typed quicker than the keyboard and it was frustrating. The DELL keyboard is run through the blue tooth and is remarkably quick. The case is solid, robust metal. You can see the screen on the Treo either in portrait or landscape viewing. When I am using the above keyboard, you get really good vision using it on landscape... an option my pda did...

Rushworth 24.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 750v

PALM TREO 750. GOOD LOOKER WITH USER PROBLEMS.

Advantages: IT DOES A JOB, GOOD LOOKING, SMALL.
Disadvantages: MANUFACTURERS ENGINEERING PROBLEMS

...lost that advantage although it is still possible to use it with the qwerty keypad that is good. Large fingers such as mine have a disadvantage but that is not a reason to moan. Another downside is that the battery life after a full charge is relatively short, you can find yourself with a flat battery after about 6 to 8 hours usage or less. I purchased a heavy duty battery specially to combat this problem. Now the Palm is too large to sit safely in its snug leather protective case. Oh dear! My biggest moan and findings of many who own one of these Palm Treo 750 are the same as I have stated and they have written to Palm regarding this matter of inactive, non-working touch-screen. No replies! Palm still make and do sell this model without having dealt with the very bad problem it has. There is no known cure as far as I can discern after...

Hi-Spec-Tek 30.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 750

Palm Treo 650 :)

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) treo 650. 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...

awave 13.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 650 Limited Edition

the Palm Treo 500 - a macintosh users perspective!

Advantages: keypad, email, bubble breaker
Disadvantages: battery life

...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 use. Email - for a pop3/imap4 account, once set up works very well although it helps if you have experience of setting up email accounts as you need to know all the settings or where to get hold of them... Internet I find is perfectly functional but the screen size makes browsing frustrating! It is important with the Palm Treo and similar products to not expect too much from these facilities...

coureur 05.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Palm Treo 500

Palm One Treo GSM

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 battery life is good avaeraging about 4-5 days with 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...

uk_yorks 10.09.2005 (11.09.2005) · Read review
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