I’ve been using my Treo 650 again the past few days and I have to say I’ve really missed the experience. Overall, the Palm Smartphone experience is the best in my opinion. I’m clearly not a windows guy so there’s a natural bias there, but I have been using several Nokia series 60 devices for the past months and it’s just not even close. The Treo is simple, yet robust and allows me to carry a ton of applications, data and entertainment is a relatively small package.
No of course I’ve got that itch for the 700P – EVDO would only make my experience that much better. 😉
My friend,
try the Nokia E61 or Nokia E62 as it will becalled in the US.
I have it now for 2 weeks and it the best device I ever had.
It has additional to all the 3G and EVDO stuff WLAn with WAP and WEP and a SIP client.
It rocks.
Klaus
I was actually considering this device, but I prefer the Palm OS to Symbian… I do like the idea of all connectivity though, believe me! In fact I was in London a few weeks ago and was trying to track it down in person … If I had found it then I would have definitely purchased.
I’ve had my 650 for 5 months now and I regret the purchase every single day. I ignored my gut screaming “CONVERGENCE BAD, M’KAY?!” after watching everyone else drink the koolaid and heroin mixture that is the treo. I now have a phone with an unusable form factor promising to effortlessly manage contacts and actual connections for IM, interwebs, and e-mail. It lies. The interwebs are too slow, the e-mail too unconfigurable, the IM drops messages left and right, and ssh just crashes. I can’t to toss this thing for separate bite-size flip phone and simple pda. Buh!
Hey Erik – hope all is well… been quite a while!
My 650 is still quite good with the standard reset every now and then of course for good measure. I dno’t do ssh, but I’ve Verichat is a good IM client that works well and for email ChatterEmail can’t be beat for push (IMAP)/ sync (pop) accounts.
The new one has more juice, a better keyboard and faster (much) data service…