Palm Treo 680 - user opinions and reviews
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8.6
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8.5
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8.5
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All I want is a combo PDA/Phone to combine the form factor and phone capability of my Motorola razr and the clear, intuitive, and easy to use touchscreen calendar of my Palm m500.
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- 2006-11-07 07:12
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- Roger
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So many love to bash Palm OS who have minimal experience with a Treo. Just returned from a month in Turkey, Greek Isles, Greece & Italy. My old 600 was on constantly - not one reset. 100% reliable in telecons, text messaging, listening to MP3, doing daily crosswords, checking schedules and reservations,reading e-books, editing some Word docs and emailing, etc. The only thing revealed was that the wireless coverage in the US stinks in comparison to what I had available everyplace on our trip. The 680 looks appealing to me with a better screen, more memory, EDGE and most important a Palm OS.
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- 2006-11-03 22:49
- jjuw
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Treo 680/750 is adsolutely obsolete in spec as compare to O2 trion/Dopod 838/HTC tytn. It's soon worthless value for money. The 680 has four impressive cosmetic colors to fool new buyers, but practical requirement is what market wants, I think Palm is living on past glory trying to sell cheap spec for high price!
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- 2006-11-03 07:36
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- Lane
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Do you think that they would release a cheaper, newer version after they release this one? I've read about many bugs (like constant resets, and hanging) on the other Treos too.
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- 2006-11-03 00:09
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- Prolab
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Answer to Jason:
You have to realize what you need it for. I've seen enough people that buys smartphones cause its the "IN" thing to get. Most of them dont even have a clue on how to use their phones to their advantage.
You will experience crashes, no matter which smartphone you have. A major reason would be software that conflicts with other software installed in your phone. So always be careful installing 3rd party applications.
Speaking of 3rd party applications, palm has the most support for 3rd party applications since it's been around since the first palm pilot. Although, Windows Mobile is gaining popularity - so its a matter of time before it catches up for applications.
If your primary use is E-mail, then the blackberry hands down for ease of use and its blackberry connect. BUT, if you want a phone that would be capable of doing almost everything and any Windows Mobile or Palm OS would suffice your needs.
Answer to Nite:
Reason why you see a lot of resets with treo's (your words) is because most of the owners doesn't know how to properly configure their Treo's to their advantage. They just load 3rd party applications w/o thinking through and wonder why they experience a lot of resets.
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- 2006-10-31 02:33
- kC$x
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- Nite
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if i were to compare this to the E62, the E62 wins hands down. not only does it have the blackberry push, it also gets more for the durability since the lack of a touch screen. all and all i would never get a treo just because i see them crash too much to be useful.
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- 2006-10-29 19:15
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- sameh
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What about the software ?? Can we use the same available in the market for 650 ?? Or we have again to suffer to get software here in Egypt?
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- 2006-10-27 09:52
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- Jason
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A lot of people are comparing this to the highest-end smartphones, but its definitely entry-level. A good comparison for the Treo 680 would be the Nokia E62, which is the circumstance I find myself in. Which is the better phone?
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- 2006-10-26 04:33
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- Antti
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No UMTS? 3G support in a cornerstone for a good smartfone.
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- 2006-10-25 22:00
- pdc5
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- harry
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hi,Dude,i got a p990 as well as 650,but u dont know that its expandability is none at all.but i agree that it integrate everything in a tight and light handset.but u can only do things with ur builtin apps,and no more!while ur treo function is limited but u can install hundreds of apps(most r free) to make it even more powerful than p990.its interface is much harder to use and get use to than 650!
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- 2006-10-22 02:07
- m25S
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- 650
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The new Palm 680 may try to capture new entry PDA customers but are ignorance of the existing enormous Palm OS 650 customers base who expected to be upgraded too. The Palm loyalist may simply switch to O2 Cosmo or HTC S620 with better up to date spec e.g. Wi-Fi etc. Incidentally HTC manufactured for Palm 680 yet Palm choose obsolete spec. They could have get two big birds with one stone, now they needed two stones to get one tiny bird. I would not choose 680 with my money!
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- 2006-10-21 16:20
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- Dude
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You know guys
I didn't change my treo 650 for another one like this...
many friends already changing to P990 but, I didn't like at all.
first of all not user firendly like treo but, unfortunatelly my treo become dinosour, is it going to extinction.
I am thinking N95 or P990 for now...
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- 2006-10-20 04:19
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- Anonymous
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i still have my nokia n93, a piece of rubbish, sitting inside the drawer. the lack of qwerty keyboard and touch screen just doesnt work for me ever after i used treo 650. and the noisy picures and defective autofocus. my p990 took its place completely now. i can only hope 680 will be up to palm's usually standards and replace my p990. but it won't be easy. no phone is perfect at the moment.
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- 2006-10-18 12:26
- jkrx
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my nearly 2 year old treo 650 is still attractive to me, to be honest. i bought a sony p990 for a bit more than a week now, i can say i can be able do just about everything on it, including many functions that treo cant do, such as wap browsing, fm radio, 3g calling, i dont really need wifi coz wifi connection is so limited range and limited freedom, while gprs and 3G range is everywhere access and absolute freedom . but symbian uiq interface is not as easy to use as palmos, sometimes i get confused. actually, sony p990 is for those who want everything integrated into one tidy package and those who doesnt want anything else except builtin apps. its expandability is very very poor, only got 1700 software on the market for uiq 3, while palmos got 28000 softwares avalible and many of them are free such as a 'noah dictionary pro' which is a very complete package of dictionary for palmos,its worth more $25! symbian sony p990 is actually for normal user while palmos is for very very power users, simply because its very highly expandable capability with hundreds of softwares. no bluetooth stereo no worries,get a softick bluetooth audio gateway installed. no fm radio no worries,get a separate fm radio. no 3g no worries, who use video call everyday?who care about freedom more than speed! palm treo is not a phone , its actually a data centric device with builtin voice function! with uiq u cant do more than builtin apps. with palmos u can do every thing. still want my treo 650 back, its so sexy. looking forward to the release of this 680. i will buy one to fill in the gap between my 650 and p990 anyway.
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- 2006-10-18 10:30
- jkrx
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No wifi? VGA camera? Why bother, this is barely an improvment on the 650 which is how many years old now?
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- 2006-10-17 06:47
- kCPj
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This phone is palms atempt to move into the sidekicks spot. It's obviously not a phone that current 650 owners are gonna upgrade from especially since all it has over them is memory.
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- 2006-10-16 18:43
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- Anonymous
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This looks like another way Palm is expanding their business by appealing to other generations. Since "Everthing" phones seem to be the next way technology is going, why not take advantage of this and start creating color phones with low end specs, for thoes who just have to have the latest and greatest toy. Not saying Treos are toys, but someone may adopt these color Treos as the next Sidekick killer! lol
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- 2006-10-16 01:22
- 4G9Z
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