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Day One with the Palm Treo 650

Posted by Chris Leckness on February 20, 2006 – 7:26 pm
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OK, I said I was going to do it and I have started now.

I understand the Palm Treo 650 is nothing new. I understand that its really old news. What is new about all this is that I am going to try to use this phone, a PALM OS phone, over the stack of Windows Mobile Phones I have laying around. This is part of an ongoing effort started by myself to learn more about the "other" companies OS versions.

Day 1
The 1st thing I did was charged it for a while. Then I loaded up the software and saw a familiar face from the past, HotSync!

Knowing little about today’s Palm OS, what I saw next was a shocker. I was asked to press the button on the sync cable and when I did, the software started to whirl! An option came up on the screen asking me if I wanted to sync with some program I didn’t pay attention to or Microsoft Outlook. Well, what do you think I chose? Considering Outlook contains my entire life, Outlook. This was a PLEASANT surprise I was not expecting. ATTN MICROSOFT!!!! Want to make it easy for Palm users to join our fight? Offer this functionality in reverse for Active Sync!!!

I spent a good part of the day on this phone without using any headsets, etc. The reception was good and the conversations were clear as could be. I asked each person I spoke with how I sounded and they all said I was just fine! Total talk time was around 3 hours today. An hour and a half was with one friend of mine and the phone never became uncomfortable. I am hope 13 hours after my day began with 100% charge and the indicator shows a tad over 50% life.

My observations for today:
Blaze, the built in web browser, is horrible. I haven’t taken the time to see if there is any settings to make webpages not look BAD. I am definitely not in Windows Land anymore. (a couple pics in full story)

Calling Palm Users! Help me learn from this trial. Post comments on what I need to do to enhance this experience!

 

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  • Chris Leckness
    Day 2 - http://www.mobilitysite.com/2006/02/day_two_with_the_palm_treo_650.php

    I have no clue about Microsoft reasoning for not offering the ability to sync more with more than 2 PCs. I am told that its been on the list of things to do before. There are 3rd party apps to allow it though.
  • My wife and I both have Treo 650's on Cingular. All in all, it's an adequate PDA/phone, but man, PalmOS sucks SO bad. We upgraded to the Treo 650 from our previous Samsung i330 PalmOS-based PDA phones (on Sprint service).

    The Treo 650 randomly soft-resets itself -- I've figured out some reproducible ways of getting it to happen, so I avoid doing those things now. But, it still makes me want to throw the phone when it does happen. Sigh.

    Another issue: regardless of what I set, the phone turns off the display and engages the keylock ... I have it set to "3 minutes" and sometimes it engages after 6-7 seconds. Very annoying. Affects usability in a big way.

    Someone needs to make a PDA phone that actually works well and priced under $300. I'm waiting for the day ...
  • Todd Jolley
    In general, I prefer the apps on the Palm-based Treo - they seem to be a lot lighter (in RAM), seem to work better, and seem much faster. I rip and watch DVD's on my Treo, audio books, ebooks, MP-3..literally nothing I can't do on the Palm Treo over the MS Mobile version.

    Believe it or not, you have better Microsoft compatability using Documents to Go than using MS's mobile apps. The DTG apps seem to be more powerful and contain more/better options too..may just be me though :-)

    ZLauncher - lets me use tabbed interface to sort my apps, and set 16 icons per page

    Grab 'Genius!' for quick data searches on the web. Once I found this, I almost never use a dedicated browser anymore.

    Yea - Blazer Sux. I hear Xiino is good, though I don't do dedicated browsing much

    Pocket Tunes for the MP3 player...Real..well, it sux too.

    Oh yea, and the biggie..what's up with the 3 PC limit for MS? HORRIBLE artificial limit. I sync with my work laptop, my home laptop, my home PC, and sometimes one of several 'guest' OS's..Can't do that with MS's offerings..yea I realize I am in the minority, but there are a lot of corporate customers out there who have multiple work-related PC's plus home PC's..wake up MS.
  • Thanks. I will try some of those out. I like that I can use the touch screen, but it feels different than Windows Mobile. Growing pains, gotta hate em'!
  • I own a Treo 650. I've been a plam user for many years. But I don't consider myself religiously fanatic or anything like that. I'd switch under the right circumstances.

    The reason that I continue to be a palm user is because the applications that I use continue to work under palm os and not under the windows version. For example, I tested out the Microsoft Money PocketPC program on a friend's Dell Axim. It was terrible! My experience matched what others have reported in microsoft.public.money newsgroup (do a google group search). OTOH the ultrasoft money for palm has worked flawlessly.

    And that's my recommendation to you: start looking for the gazillion other palm based programs that you can download and/or use. On the 650, my favorites are:

    Chatter Email
    Directory Assitant
    Ultrasoft Money

    There are tons more. The applications are pretty much what keep me on palm.

    As far as Blazer goes, you are 100% correct: It's bad. For web browsers, I've read good reviews of Xiino. I've used Opera Mini with some success.
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