Palm Treo 680 (QWERTY, Grey)
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Say hello to the Palm® Treo 680 smartphone. It's your phone along with email, messaging, and web access.Not to mention your contacts, calendar, photos, and songs. Sounds like a lot. And it is. But everything's so easy to learn that you'll actually use it, which makes it anything but a typical phone.
The same goes for design. Pick it up and youll notice a large colour touchscreen and an easy-type keyboard. Since the Treo 680 is just the right size, you have the freedom to take it anywhere and still be connected to friends, work, and family. Of course, there's also something called an "off" button, for when you don't want to be connected at all.
Phonesenjoy easy-to-use features such as multi-party conference calling and speakerphone.
Emailsend and receive email from corporate and personal email accounts, including AOL, Gmail, and Yahoo!.
Webdownload web sites fast using the award-winning Blazer® web browser. With a simple touchscreen, its on-the-go web access youll actually use.
Messagingfire off a text message, or send photos and videos complete with audio captions. Plus, see the whole conversation in a chat-style view.
Multimediasnap photos, create slideshows, shoot video, play songs. Even record your own ringtones.
Built-in Organiserbe as together as you want to be with your calendar, contacts, to-do list, and memos right at your fingertips.
Documents to Go®download, view, and edit Word and Excel® compatible files, rehearse a PowerPoint® presentation, even review PDF files.
Bluetooth® Technologyconnect to GPS, headsets, car kits and more all without wires getting in the way.
Dial-up Networkinguse your smartphone as a wireless modem for your laptop.
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Palm Treo 680 (QWERTY, Grey) Reviews
As a person who waited twenty years before buying a CD player to make sure CDs weren't a fad, I accidentally purchased my first portable MP3 player with this Treo, and enjoyed loading it with just about everything that's been uploaded on my computer that makes a noise. That is where the trouble began. I am now in posession of my fourth Treo 680 since January , and the only reason I haven't exchanged it is because each successive one seems to have more wrong with it. On paper, the Palm Treo should be the greatest thing since eating the top torn off of a freshly baked baguette from a boulangerie in Reims.
After three months, I again am having trouble with the speaker. The result: I was a half hour later getting home to bed after my afternoon shift, more exasperated than usual, and I had had to find a scrap of paper to write the information on anyway. The stylus works very poorly; I have to sync it with the PDA every time I use it (which takes forever on this one) and even then it only works for some of the apps, some of the time. But this one has too many faults to list.
There had not been any unusual wear; I use my MP3 with the earplug anyway, and, my social life being a bit on the light side, the phone doesn't ring that often. I also found it was just a good a camera as my idiot proof point and shoot for daylight or well lighted indoor shots (I should note that I purchased a 1 gigabyte memory card along with the Treo 680, guessing the extra memory would be helpful, and much of my multimedia is stored on that). But then the speaker went out, which meant I could not hear the phone ring or the built in alarm clock, and I could only listen to music or videos with the ear plug. I wished the internet browser (Blazer) was different or better, but I think this problem is indemic to the problem of the poor relationship between the net and mobile phones.
My third Treo did last a while without problems, from February until July of 2008. The PDA does bizarre things that seem to be electronically induced.for example, when I open up the task application, bunches of tasks are automatically crossed off. Believing I just have successively got the bottomer of the barrel, I'm looking forward to upgrading as soon as I can, and probably will go with Palm. Phone calls were great, the calendar function almost allowed me to transfer my ancient Franklin Planner ways from the bulky leather planner to the smartphone, and the qwerty was easy to use. The one that replaced the stolen Treo 680 had problems receiving and making calls. Last night, late at work, knowing I needed to go to an early meeting, I desperately tried to open the calender application to add a note about the meeting location.
The service provider once again was very gracious, honored my warranty for damage without any hassle, and I had my fourth Treo within days. Truth be told, in January of 2008 I bought a shining red Treo 680 and it worked like a dream, in concert with the provider service. I understand Palm is outphasing the Treo 680. Synchronization with my desktop is a hit or miss; sometimes it takes a minute, sometimes six hours, and if I try to download songs it seems I never get all of them at one time (and who wants to try another HotSync if it might last six hours).
It was replaced immediately by the service provider.
But is that an excuse for poor workmanship.
I had not one but three choices to link my work and home e-mail accounts and thus receive mail on my Treo; one type of e-mail software did not receive some of my e-mail properly so I simply used one of the others.
I had been so pleased with the first purchase that I paid full price the next day for a new one.
Perhaps my first Treo, had it not been stolen, would still be meeting most of my human needs.
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(Anyone who has eaten the top torn off of a freshly baked baguette from a boulangerie in Reims knows it far outrates sliced bread of any other kind.
I never saw it again.
I was happy as a clam for about a month.until I let my Treo leave my eyesight for two seconds in a public place.
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