one????!!!???
(BTW, I know the answer: Palm makes more money selling proprietary ones to
Sprint and Verizon, and then Cingular; T-Mobile doesn't sell Treos, so the
market for the unlocked GSM device is relatively small and relatively
unprofitable. Any other reasons?).
I still want one NOW!!
Cheers,
Don
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Jewish World Review May 26, 2006 / 26 Iyar, 5766
Treo 'p' smart phone winner
By Mark Kellner
It was only after a few days into testing of the
Palm Treo 700p, a CDMA-based "smart phone" from
the handheld device maker, that it hit me: Palm
has won, hands-down, no questions asked, the race
for smart-phone supremacy.
Nokia and Motorola will want to dispute that, of
course, so will Samsung and LG, Sony Ericsson and
others. But the fact remains: There is no better
handheld phone on the market today than the Treo
700p - at least for users in the United States
and especially for those who want to keep in
touch with their businesses, or even the world at
large.
My Treo came with Sprint Nextel's mobile service
and, while I encountered the occasional
reception/connection problem, overall the service
was crisp and clear.
On the Internet side, the phone uses EVDO
(Evolution-Data Optimized) to pull down Web pages
with incredible speed. Yes, the display is still
small, but once you master the trick of moving
around the screen, it's refreshing to have pages
load so quickly.
What's more, the phone can also be a wireless (or
wired) modem for a PC or Macintosh computer,
adding a connectivity option that easily replaces
the sign-on-with-a-password-for-$9.95-a-day deals
at coffee shops and other public places. Cool
beans, as one of my colleagues would say.
If the Treo 700p, available for around $400 with
a Sprint service plan, did only these things, I'd
be enthusiastic. Yes, the Treo 650, which runs on
the Cingular network among others, is a nice
phone; I use one daily.
Yes, the Treo 700w, which runs Windows Mobile, is
also fast, but there are limitations inherent in
that Microsoft operating system and there's
little way to get around these.
But wait, there's more: the Treo 700p, as Sprint
implements it, offers a huge range of multimedia
choices, including dozens of streaming television
channels, music of almost unlimited variety, and
heaven knows what else.
Prices vary, but run around $7 to $10 a month
extra for a given service, such as Sprint TV,
which is mind-boggling.
How so? Click a few buttons and you are watching
the Weather Channel, C-SPAN (or C-SPAN2),
Discovery, Bloomberg TV, Fox News Channel or Fox
Sports.
This will make waiting in an airport much easier.
Add stereo headphones and you have a portable
concert hall. Pack along the incredible
charger/dock/stereo speakers/speakerphone known
as the Altec Lansing inMotion iMT1, a $179
option, and you've suddenly got a system that
will be the envy of just about everyone.
Where does this leave users? With a rather
complete communications/data management system on
the road. There's enough software on the Treo
700p to make any user happy, and with
SecureDigital cards of up to 2 gigabytes
available, there's enough storage to satisfy most
needs.
That data storage is useful, by the way, because
the Treo 700p has a 1.1 megapixels digital
camera, which can also record short video clips.
If there are flaws in this new product - and
perhaps there are - I have yet to discover any
that are truly significant. The button layout is
a bit different, but not so much so that longtime
Treo users won't adapt. Palm has won the smart
phone race, and Treo 700p users may hold the best
prize. .
JWR contributor Mark Kellner has reported on
technology for industry newspapers and magazines
since 1983, and has been the computer columnist
for The Washington Times since 1991.
© 2006, News World Communications, Inc. Reprinted
with permission of The Washington Times. Visit
the paper at http://www.washingtontimes.com
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