Paradise Mobile Style: Take a Vacation from the Heavyweights

Go light and ultra versatile with the Palm Treo 700w, it’s like a bikini instead of a wetsuit when you experience Palm’s Windows Mobile Treo

You don’t need to have your weekly deep tissue massage by carrying a cell phone, PDA, iPod MP3 player, laptop, and camera in your briefcase or purse. With the slim and light Treo 700w, it’s a mobile paradise. The Treo 700w has a robust operating system and good call quality and reception.

    Check out all these great features:

  • Voice recognition dialing
  • Download data, audio and video content at broad and cable speeds on Verizon’s ED-VO network.
  • Connect to Bluetooth headsets, car adapters, and GPS receivers more easily with built-in Bluetooth 1.2 software.
  • Accessories compatible with its predecessor Treo 650.
  • When your Treo 700w rings, it’s easy to be attentive and courteous. There is a ringer on / off switch to mute the cell phone ringer. Don’t be a victim of cell phone rage. Put your 700w on vibrate mode before a business meeting or a blind date.
  • With easy and accessible one-handed navigation with the Treo 700w, you can accomplish most tasks without using a stylus, which can be uncomfortable and stressful.

Take your home office to the field. Run programs you already know, including: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint mobile, Internet Explorer mobile media 10 player mobile, MSN messenger, Outlook calendar, contact pass, and messenger on the Treo 700w’s versatile Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.

Add capabilities to fit any project or job. Make the Treo 700w even more versatile with the following built-in features: Bluetooth 1.2, 1.3 megapixel camera, WiFi card, Bluetooth wireless headsets, Verizon ED-VO high-speed Internet connectivity, and one-handed navigation.

This article provides information on the new Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system for the Treo 700w. Many of the built-in features listed above will make the new Treo 700w irresistible. Here are some of the questions this review will answer:

  1. What kind of high-speed service does the Verizon reveal offer?
  2. The emergence of one-button email technology.
  3. Does the battery have a long life?
  4. What about Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system?

No more days of holding a 2X4 to your ear. Now when you answer a call with the new Treo700w, you’ll notice its light weight and easy-to-install ergonomic design.

When a new PDA / mobile phone hits the market, there is usually a delay before compatible accessories are available. This is not true with the Treo 700w. If you own the Treo 650, you can use all Treo accessories with the Treo 700w.

There is a major change or upgrade to the 700W of the Treo 650. You will now notice two programmable buttons just below the LCD of the Treo 700w. These start the Windows Mobile 5.0 application.

The green phone icon button on the far left will allow you to make a cell phone call. The red phone icon, on the far right, allows you to enter your cell phone call. The Windows button to the right of the green phone icon opens the Windows Mobile start menu.

The OK button to the left of the red phone icon button is used to close a current open application, so make sure you are ready to exit the task at hand before pressing the button.

What’s great about the new 700w Treo QWERTY keyboard is that the keys are more square and better spaced than its predecessor. At night, if I need to email someone, the illuminated keys make it easy for me to see what I’m writing on the screen.

New Treo 700 screen with new features

What I like about the new screen is the speed dial window at the top of the LCD screen. With this feature, it is easy to type the name or phone number to dial.

Also, near the bottom of the 700w display is a web search window. Just type in the keyword phrase right away, the 700w will launch a web browser and give you the results of your keyword search. The other useful feature is that you can now program keys similar to those on a VCR. These hotkeys can be programmed so that you can easily delete them or move on to the next message just by pressing these hotkeys. You can easily press: play, next message, rewind, pause and delete.

Lower screen resolution and long battery life

The old Treo 650 came with a higher screen resolution of 320 x 320 pixels. With the new Treo 700w, the resolution is less than 240 x 240 pixels. It remains easy to read at night and outdoors in bright light. I checked emails, looked at my schedule for the day, and called someone with one hand. Thanks to the centrally located 5-way navigation panel, the Treo 700w is comfortable for both left- and right-handed users. The 700w comes with an expanded SDIO expansion card slot, allowing you to add up to 2GB of storage space.

I used the Treo 700w for three full days before I had to replace the battery. This is definitely an improvement over the previous 650 model. Also, Windows’ built-in flash ROM makes things better, dramatically reducing battery consumption – a good thing. If you’ve just spent 45 minutes writing a proposal and your battery is dead, don’t pull your hair out, the data will be stored on your flash ROM.

Verizon ED-VO Fast Internet Option

Verizon claims that its high-speed ED-VO can transfer data at 400 to 700 kilobytes per second. Comparing the Treo 650 to the new 700w, I loaded a web page five times faster on the 700w using Verizon’s ED-VO network than on the Treo 650. Browsing on the 700w is comparable to my broadband cable internet connection at home.

Alert friends and family with a push email

Move over Blackberry. Palm Treo 700w uses a polling process to send an SMS from its server to the Treo 700w. This instructs the Treo 700w to prepare and receive a message.

What are the surveys? You can program your 700w to send email to your device on a regular basis. For example, every morning at 8 am, you can schedule your emails to download from your server to your Treo 700w device.

It is true that a push email is when you receive an email and that email is immediately sent to your Treo 700w device, which is called a push email. Unfortunately, the push email will not be available until the next update. When will that be? None of us know unless we have a psychic friend who is 85% accurate. You can ask your psychic friend to tune in to the cosmos and ask when Palm will release true push email to market.

It has never been easy to inexpensively stay in touch with friends and family. Now you can email them a positive message from your Treo 700w.

What is Verizon Wireless Wireless Sync? This is an additional service that you must subscribe to from Verizon Wireless. It is currently not available on the market. But in the future, you will be able to redirect your email from your home computer or office server directly to your 700w smartphone in real time.

Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system

Last spring, Bill Gates announced the release of the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. Now you can watch: podcasts, photo blogs, download news RSS feeds, and stream live TV shows and music from your desktop PC with home TV tuner to your Treo 700w. I didn’t find OS 5.0 to have bugs at all.

A very amazing converged PDA / phone

In the past, converged devices offered poor mobile phone reception and call quality. Basically, if you owned an older converged device, it amounted to a very expensive PDA and a faulty cell phone. Many people would have to carry a regular cell phone with them just to be able to make and receive cell phone calls.

The Treo 700w radio stack and Windows Mobile 5.0 have been completely revamped. Now there are fewer dropped calls. In addition, it offers a higher call quality. With Verizon Wireless, my provider, I found the call clarity to be greatly improved compared to the Treo 650. I purposely made a three-way conference call to two associates of mine: one located in Sedona, Arizona and the other in Long Island, New York. Throughout the conference call, I heard everyone very well. The call did not end abruptly due to poor reception. Overall, the Treo 700w smartphone exceeded my expectations.

Thanks Palm, the Verizon network and Windows Mobile 5.0. Now I have mobile paradise. I hope you too.

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