Go lightweight and ultra-versatile with the Palm Treo 700w. It’s like a bikini instead of a wetsuit when you experience Windows Mobile Treo by Palm.
You don’t have to have your weekly deep tissue massage to carry a cell phone, PDA, iPod MP3 player, laptop and camera in your briefcase or purse. With the thin and light Treo 700w, it’s a mobile paradise. The Treo 700w has a robust operating system and good reception and call quality.
Check out all these great features:
- voice recognition dialing
- Download data audio and video content at wire speeds and bandwidth on Verizon’s ED-VO network.
- Connect to Bluetooth headsets, car adapters and GPS receivers more seamlessly with built-in Bluetooth 1.2 software.
- Accessories compatible with its predecessor Treo 650.
- When the Treo 700w rings, it’s easy to be attentive and polite. There is a ringer on/off switch to silence the cell phone ringer. Don’t fall victim to cell phone wrath. Turn your 700w into vibrate mode before a business meeting or blind date.
- Easy navigation and one-handed accessibility With the Treo 700w, you can accomplish most tasks without using a stylus, which can be inconvenient and stressful.
Take your home office to the field. Run familiar programs 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 these built-in features: Bluetooth 1.2, 1.3-megapixel camera, WiFi card, Bluetooth wireless headset, Verizon ED-VO high-speed Internet connectivity, and one-handed navigation.
This article provides information about the Treo 700w’s new Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. 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:
- What kind of high-speed service does the Verizon reveal offer?
- The rise of email technology at the touch of a button.
- Does the battery have a long life line?
- What about Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system?
No more days of holding a 2X4 to your ear. Now when you take a call with the new Treo700w, you’ll notice its light weight and easy-to-install ergonomic design.
When any new PDA/cell phone hits the market, there is usually a delay before compatible accessories become available. This is not true with the Treo 700w. If you own the Treo 650, you can use all your Treo accessories with the Treo 700w.
There is a major change or upgrade to 700W from the Treo 650. You will now notice two programmable buttons just below the LCD screen on 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 launches the Windows Mobile start menu.
The OK button to the left of the red phone icon button is used to close a currently open app, so make sure you’re ready to quit the task at hand before pressing the button.
The nice thing about the new Treo 700w QWERTY keyboard is that the keys are squarer and better spaced than its predecessor. At night, if I need to email someone, the backlit keys make it easy to see what I’m typing on the screen.
New Treo 700 display 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 screen 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 VCR-like keys. These hotkeys can be programmed so that you can easily delete or move to the next message just by pressing these hotkeys. You can easily press: play, next message, back, 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’s still easy to read at night and outdoors. I checked emails, looked at my schedule for the day, and called someone with one hand. Due to the centrally located 5-way navigation panel, the Treo 700w is comfortable for both left and right-handers. 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 a full three days before I had to replace the battery. This is definitely an improvement over the previous 650 model. Also, the built-in flash ROM in Windows kicks things up a notch, drastically reducing battery consumption, which is a good thing. If you’ve just spent 45 minutes writing a proposal and your battery runs out, don’t stress, the data will be stored in your flash ROM.
Verizon ED-VO Fast Internet Option
Verizon claims that its high-speed ED-VO can transfer data between 400 and 700 kilobytes per second. Comparing the Treo 650 on 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. wide at home
Alert friends and family with one touch email
Move over Blackberry. The Palm Treo 700w uses a polling process to send an SMS from its server to the Treo 700w. This tells the Treo 700w to get ready and receive a message.
What is the poll? You can program your 700w to send emails to your device on a regular basis. For example, every morning at 8 am, you can schedule your emails to be downloaded from your server to your Treo 700w device.
True push email is when you receive an email, and that email is immediately sent to your Treo 700w device, it’s called push email. Unfortunately, push email won’t be available until the next update. When will that be? None of us know unless we have a psychic friend who has an accuracy level of 85%. You can ask your psychic friend to tune in to the cosmos and ask when Palm will bring true push email to market.
Staying in touch with friends and family on the cheap has never been easy. Now you can by sending them an email with 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 forward 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 a TV tuner at home to your Treo 700w. I didn’t find OS 5.0 buggy at all.
A very amazing converged phone/PDA
In the past, converged devices offered poor cell phone reception and call quality. Essentially, if you had an older converged device, it was equivalent to a very expensive PDA and a bad cell phone. Many people would have to carry around a regular cell phone just to be able to make and receive cell phone calls.
Treo 700w radio stack and Windows Mobile 5.0 is completely renewed. Now there are fewer dropped calls. In addition, it offers better 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, Verizon Network and Windows Mobile 5.0. Now I have mobile paradise. I hope you too.