Giving the Palm Treo 650 a chance
Posted by Chris Leckness on 02/7/06 in Smart Phones
Windows Mobile MVP to try out the Palm OS
After 6 years of not owning or really even touching the Palm OS, I have a Treo 650 on the way. The last time I owned a Palm was the Palm III with a whopping 2mb ram and batteries I had to change more often than socks.
Why?
After testing out the Treo 700w, the 1st Palm Device to use Windows Mobile, I decided that the form factor was as good as all the Treo Fanatics were claiming. Yep, I picked up the 650 on numerous occasions and even made some calls, but never really held it long enough to get a good feel for it. Well, now that I have been tainted with the Palm hardware, I want to check out the software.
I doubt that it will become my daily device, but I am going to play around and familiarize myself with the OS that so many love. I have a feeling I will be going back to my Kjam until the 700w is released with GSM support.
The unit should be here in a couple days and I will keep a diary here of my adventures outside of my realm of Windows Mobile. I am so terrified of other platforms that I am shuffling review units to my other guys to review.
UPDATE : Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 / Day 4 / Day 5 / Day 6 / Day 7
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Geez F Christ. Spare us the drama. There are enough WorM5-Dronzes-turn-Treo-Virgins blogging about Treo nowadays, I sincerely hope someone would sacrifice them all to the Great Satan, Bill.
Thanks for the support. I love it!
I can’t really add anything to this other than to say I’m laughing my @$$ off!
Chris,
I went from the hx4705 to the Treo 650. Not the best of everything, but certainly the best out there today. Good looking site.
TTF
Nice to see your comment on the Treo’s form factor. I’ve always been a Pocket PC / WM user, never any temptation to look at Palm until getting a 650 several months back - and I love it. Love being able to do so much with it one-handed. But I am also a big believer in carrying two devices - and the Axim X51V is the perfect companion for the Treo. Will be real interested to hear your take after using the 650 for a while.
Well guys, I am not promising that I will carry it long, but I will give it a fair shake and report my opinions.
Feb 20th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Day One with the Palm Treo 650
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…