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4.0 stars
"Great converged device"
Pros: Does most of what I need: Good phone, great Palm organizer, MP3 player, email and SMS device. Great form factor.
Cons: Onboard memory needs beefing up, small screen and thumbkeys.
Summary: I've been waiting to get a converged device for a couple of years, and the Treo 650 finally does enough of the things I need in one device. I need a good phone, Palm Organizer, Email and SMS device, and it does all of those things extremely well. I sync to Outlook on my laptop, Outlook for work email and earthlink for personal email and that all works exactly as expected. The MP3 player is a nice bonus. Other media stuff? Who cares - I have a much better digital camera and mini-DV video camera, and I can't imagine wanting to use this tiny phone for those things.
Two small caveats: I'm over 40 and the screen and thumbkeys are taking some getting used to - they're pretty small. But the keyboard beats the heck out of graffiti, and a bigger screen would mean a bigger, heavier phone, so I'm generally happy.
I experienced some of the hard reset problems other users noticed, and in my case I'm pretty sure it's because I upgraded from a Palm Tungsten T3 using the "automatic" process. My advice: First delete everything you don't absolutely have to have from your old device (the 650 REALLY needs more memory - save yourself some hassle and just get an expansion card). Then follow the "What to do if your upgrade doesn't work right" instructions to start with. Backup your old device and copy the backup folder somewhere safe. Then delete all of your files from the original backup and start fresh. The automatic process is good at detecting incompatible .prc files, but it doesn't do so well with supporting .pdb and other files. After some crashing, I finally did one hard reset, started fresh and added only the stuff I absolutely had to have, and the device is working just fine.
All that run-around demonstrates one thing: You still need to be a *bit* of a geek to get up and running without too much frustration. This is still really not a turn-key device.
Last note - I dropped it screen down from chest height onto a hard tile floor the first day I had it. No problems so far.
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Palm Treo 650 (Verizon Wireless):
$24.99
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