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Verizon Treo 700x
palm Treo 700w Smartphone (Verizon Wireless) |
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Gadget lovers point of view
4 out of 5
I bought this phone mainly because I love cutting-edge gadgets. Before you slam that statement, I concede that the 700WX is not "iPhone" cutting-edge. But it is the best that Verizon has to offer. Why should you buy this phone?
1. It's hours of tweaking, hacking, customizing fun.
2. "Near broadband" is pretty fast after messing with WAP browsers and GPRS.
3. Verizon users can tether it to their laptops for mobile near-high-speediness-internet. Screw those pay-4-play hotspots!
4. All the gripes can be overcome if you're the kind of user who loves trolling forums for the latest tweaks and trying them out yourself.
5. The screen is small but bright and 65k colors makes MobiTV look GREAT! By the way, this app does in fact stream very, very fluid video to your 240X240 screen. Anime fans will love the "Ataku" channel.
6. It's got bluetooth.
7. Tons of apps out there to play with - Opera Mobile web browser, Resco Pocket Radio (works great!), games galore, etc.
And yes, I have had it only for 2 days but it's been a lot of fun so far. I've got it to pull email from my Gmail account, no prob. And yea, I've reset it tons of times but only cuz I've made so many modifications already. Heck, I even did a hard-reset to restore it to it's original setup! But I planned on doing that anyway after I figured what apps I wanted to keep.
The phone part was confusing at first (yea, yea - Steve Jobs i hear ya') but I got the hang of it. Texting and emailing was easy. And if you think the keyboard is nice, forget it. The buttons are small and dont' really speed up your texting or emailing. But then again, i've only been using them for 2 days!
Reason not to get it: you're not patient or don't have the time to customize this thing to your liking. (which most of us don't, i know)
Have fun.
PS. I upgraded from a Motorola Razr V3M. OOOOh how I grew to hate that phone!
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I do not like this phone
2 out of 5
I wanted to like this phone. I tried the earlier generation and got rid of it because it was so unreliable. I was talked into trying the Trio again because "it is SO MUCH BETTER NOW". It is not. It is a little better, but it is still a crummy phone. It crashes several times a week; it forgets its battery level occasionally; the signal is poor; and the very worst is its sound quality. People can't hear me well and I don't hear them well. The volume controls seem almost random to me. If I crank up the speaker volume for calls all the way up, I can barely hear people - if I put the ring-tone volume on low, I can hear my phone ringing in the next county.
There are some good things - my network guy says the new version isn't as horrible to manage and set up than the last one. The Outlook synchronization seems to work very well. I like having immediate access to my calendar, email, etc. But everything else about the phone, I just HATE. I really, really, hate this phone. Sorry, but I had to say it.
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worst phone for your money
2 out of 5
and here's why:
-Poor signal strength: i tried 3 models and when compared to cheap Nokia phones this phone has a really bad signal strength. i've even called VZ and they verified signal strength to be good in 2 key areas for me. my parents have two cheap VZ phones and their signal is double mine.
-Bulky & Large
-Heavy
-no USB output (need special cables to USB)
-Buggy - i've had to reboot it several times as suggested by VZ Tech support. it often doesn't ring goes directly into Voicemail. sometimes it freezes.
i'm a technical guy, i work for a telecom, and far from a technically ignorant retard. but i'm selling my phone faster than you can spell c-r-a-p.
James
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Treo 700w. Never again.
1 out of 5
The Treo is more phone than function, but even as a phone, it has major bugs. Believe me when I tell you that this phone has added much stress to my life. I've visited the Palm Knowledgebase and Support Forums many times to find out if I was alone, only to find many, many lost souls roaming those halls with so many "Treo Troubles".
To emphasize, the short list is
- Dropped calls when a Call Waiting call is ignored.
- Constant crashes.
- Continuous rebooting required.
- Malfunctioning features including the alarm, browser, voice commands and notes.
- The non-expandable, 32MB Program Memory limitation caused (IMO) much erratic behavior and system halts. The phone required rebooting, minimally, once per day.
- Forget about multi-tasking.
- Blue-tooth headset interaction required rebooting after every third call.
- Visit Palms Support Forums and educate yourself before you buy this phone!
If you're a PDA power user, you especially should steer clear of the Treo 700w if you wish to stay productive. It will not only hold you back, but it will aggravate you, break trains of thought, interrupt your workflow and make you wait in line at the Verizon store when you finally decide to abandon it and get something else.
Been there, done that.
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Highly unstable. Not suitable for any real use.
1 out of 5
The windows mobile OS has completely ruined an otherwise good phone with a great network.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Palm, or Verizon. But when these are combined with the Microsoft Windows Mobile, the phone has so many issues that I'm looking for the quickest way to ditch it w/o paying a fee.
I've tried to live with the issues for over a year but it is getting out of hand. Here's a list of the issues I've encountered:
month 3: phone would freeze on 30% of answering calls, especially when other applications are opened.
month 6: auto mail pull would fail for no reason, and would have to be reconfigured to work again.
month 8: 50% of calls won't pickup when the 'Call' button is pressed or screen button is clicked. It's a little better now but still happens.
month 12: sometimes phone won't make any sounds, even with volume and global sound switch turned on. It works after a while but it is unstable.
Among these instability issues, here are some general cons:
Screen is too small (240px resolution) for any real web browsing.
Real time push email isn't available unless you have access to a corporate Exchange server.
Always requires two handed usage. Most programs are not real usable with one hand.
I've had a Blackberry with Cingular for a short period, which was 100x more friendly and easier to use than Verizon. I ditched Cingular because of coverage issues, but the Verizon Blackberry now look like the best choice. If only they had those thin new Blackberries for Verizon.
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