Palm Treo 700p

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Treo 700 P1152586892

Pros:

intuitive interface, bright screen, high resolution

Cons:

no hotsync with Media Center Edition Windows XP, and no voice command

I have used 4 different phones: the Verizon 6700, the Blackberry 7130, the Treo 700 W and the Treo 700P. The 6700 has a horrible learning curve, uses Windows Mobile 5 which uses alot of extra keystrokes for everything, and the activesync blew out my VAIO - continuous loop looking for activesync. The screen was also impossible to read in the daylight and the phone quality was poor. I found the slide-out keyboard annoying instead of beneficial because you had to turn the phone on its side.

The blackberry was very easy but the emails were so truncated that it was hard to know what was sent, and the phone had very little functionality and a rotten phone sound.

The Treo W had a little brighter screen than the 6700 but not nearly the resolution or brightness of the 700P. THe windows based software was not great, either. There was a wifi card for it which was good, but it constantly froze and locked up when I dialed numbers. Once it took me 5 minutes to get my voicemail. Also, this phone likes to dial numbers when you are not looking! Your phone bill will be huge.

The 700P, does not do this. It is easy to read the screen and it is great to use - very simple. Only two problems: no voice command, and will not work with MCE edition of Windows XP. No hotsync is supported by Palm, Microsoft, Gateway, or Verizon!!! Ugh. Also, there is DUN but it is $15/mo whereas you can hack other models to get it for free! There is no wifi (where's the beef!). You need wifi if you do not have a phone signal and want internet. I loved the wireless sync, however, as my data was backed up on the Verizon server. If you lose your phone the data reappears on the new machine! Great!! Now if I could only get it to hotsync without removing the MCE edition from my computer and installing Windows XP Pro as my operating system - a serious flaw!!!!