Cingular Palm Treo 750 Pocket PC Phone
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Introduction
Exactly one year ago (to the day, actually), Palm shook the mobile device world by releasing the 700w, the first Palm device ever to run Windows Mobile. The union was successful. Palm was able to port their acclaimed usability features to Windows Mobile in a great way. Complaints were abound of the 700w not having enough RAM, and Palm responded with the 700wx, a device that added an additional 32MB of RAM, enough to make the device feel quick again. Now, in 2007, Palm is coming to the table with a GSM version of the Treo, this time with UMTS and no external antenna. Has Palm created another winner, or will we send it back to the R & D labs for improvements? Read on for the review, hot off the press!
Review Date: January 7, 2007
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| The Device! | Here's some YouTube video that should give you a better idea of how the product looks in-hand. |
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| On the Today screen, Palm has created some great enhancements to the normal Windows Mobile Today screen. | When someone calls, the general Windows Mobile incoming call notification pops up. A useful "Ignore with text message" is available in the Menu. |
Overall Impression
I love what Palm has done with the Windows Mobile operating system. Palm is good at listening to their customers - they took the 700w, fixed all of its major flaws, and made it better. The result is the 750.
The enhancements that Palm has made are really growing on me and could very well be valuable enough to choose a Palm Windows Mobile device over many of the others out there. The Today Screen dialer enhancements and the chat-like text messaging software are wonderful and the added phone features really make the Pocket PC Phone Edition operating system complete. On the other hand, the Palm Treo 750 is not really very impressive in terms of hardware and form factor. Sure it's got Quad-Band GSM/UMTS support, but UMTS isn't exactly widely available in North America right now (to see if there is UMTS in your area, click here, and select "Show 3G" after zooming past the city level). I love the soft touch rubberized body as well, and the keyboard is really great, but this thing is huge compared to my HTC P3300 which has plenty more features built into it's tiny body (GPS, WiFi, Roller navigation wheel). It's nice that the Treo 750 has finally lost the large external antenna, but that should have been taken out years ago.
What also sets the Treo 750 apart is the name. Especially in the U.S., everyone knows what a Palm Treo is. Nobody's heard of HTC and the other Windows Mobile devices that they make even though HTC actually manufactures the Palm Treo as well. With it's well-known name, excellent software enhancements, UMTS, and stability, I think the Treo 750 will be quite successful.
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