Monday, June 11, 2007

Treo 750

It is cell phone contract upgrade time again and this time I am getting the Palm Treo 750. It has Windows Mobile 5.0 as OS and not the standard PalmOS, which in my opinion is dying and needs a major rework. To me Windows Mobile is the only mobile OS that is still evolving and growing. Symbian and PalmOS are both not really growing and as with anything if it is not growing it is dying.

I still do prefer the Palm devices over the other devices from other manufacturers because of the design principles followed by the Palm company and the Palm Treo 750 seems to be the perfect device for me. The small thumb keyboard to me is better than the HTC TyTN's keyboard because it allows me to type SMS messages with just one hand without the need to flip the phone sideways to get access to the keyboard.

For larger documents etc. I am investigating a way of hacking my iPAQ bluetooth keyboard to work with my Treo 750, so meeting notes etc. will not be a big problem.

Some missing functionality I would have liked on this device is
  • WiFi
  • 3" LCD screen instead of 2.5"
  • 320x240 resolution instead of 240x240
  • 2MP camera instead of 1.3MP
  • 400MHz CPU instead of 300MHz
  • Have a docking station included as part of the package
Unfortunately the Treo 750 is on back order, so I might get the phone on the 12th of June.

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