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2.5 stars
"Still has stability issues"
Pros: Better sound quality than 650; Better initial software than 650; EVDO capable; Custom ring tones for each contact
Cons: Prone to crashing; Issues with GoodLink
Summary: As an early adopter of both the Treo 600 and 650, and I purchased the 700p with the same enthusiasm (all with Sprint). I liked my 650, but I was unhappy with the lack of stability in the operating system.
Well, after 2 days I can't give the 700p much love. While surfing the web to download ring tones, the OS crashed and rebooted six times in 20 minutes. And I have noticed that, overall, there are frequent "hangs" ... while playing solitaire or bejeweled, navigating the menus, web browsing, or accessing contacts or GoodLink apps, the system will hang from 1 to 6 seconds before an action is completed. This becomes rather annoying in short order.
GoodLink has its own story. After getting version 4.8 or higher, I have learned that it interferes with picture ID and the custom ring tones. This was not the case with my 650, and I find this to be highly annoying as I love those two features.
I plan on submitting some inquiries to Plam, Sprint, and Good to see if these are known problems, unique to my device, or unreported. If they can't fix these I am going to regress back to my 650. Hard to justify the $$$ for the 700p until some of these issues have a resolution.
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I purchase my 700p in Oct of '06, I've been using a Palm handheld since '99 and did not have time to learn a new system or switch out my desk top software. In Jan 07 I decided to activate my Pocket Tunes, low and behold the thing acquired a virus. Verizon mail me a new one(they're great). So I'm up and running again, notice an entry on my calendar that wasn't mine. Hit delete, no deleting of this repeating event. Did a soft reset, the thing crashed. Called Palm (they're not so great), did a complete whipe out of the software and reinstall as a new user. So far so good, now its July, Palm just released a new ROM update. I only received about 90% of the update and then it started looping. Aborted the donwload, (while on the phone with Palm), did a reinstall by cable hotsink, Bluetooth software was missing and its locked in airplane mode. I went to my Verizon Store and picked up another one. I'm on my 3rd Treo, and this is not the ideal work phone, I'm a Realtor and it is not reliable in my line of work. It is working perfect know (to date) however I have no confidence in it, and I'm craving a BlackBerry.
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i am on my 2nd treo 700p and my phone freezes up forever. i have to constanly soft reset it and as for adding 3rd party apps,forget it.to many issues with this phone to spend that kind of money.
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