Treo 700w Review

bart_scriv writes "Business Week has a review of Palm's Treo 700w (the first Palm device to run Windows). Aside from network performance, the reviewer was fairly disappointed. From the article: 'The best Windows Mobile device ever, but a cut below Palm's 650."

Supports satellite-tracking attachments?

[Doctor Memory]

Is that trendoid-speak for "supports GPS"?

Clue: with GPS, satellites track YOU!

what a surprise

[Tedium Unleased]

a non apple product getting a bad review and not being a feature article

Re:Some clarifications

[RzUpAnmsCwrds]

Palm has provided the necessary Java runtime environment free of charge to 650 users (and $5.99 for others). Once downloaded, you can run Opera or Kmaps (an excellent Java app that downloads data from Google Local and even gets the scrolling part down well) or any other Java app compiled for Palm OS.

Opera Mini, the Java version of Opera, is nowhere near as fully-featured as the Opera version for Windows Mobile, or even the Opera version for Symbian. It's certainly an option, but it's a hack at best - the interface just isn't up to snuff.

While I agree that the first generation 650s froze often, those issues have been fixed with firmware updates.

I had the latest firmware on my Treo 650 at the time (about 3 months ago), and I suspect that the lockups might have been because of the 3rd-party mail software that I used (Chatter). That said, Palm OS really doesn't have any reliable way for apps to run in the background.

Re:Comment about "web performance" amusing

[HaydnH]

Has anyone thats got a T650 and complains of crashes ever actually RTFM? Crashing on a Treo is usualy caused by third party apps (at least if you have a recent firmware etc anyway). The T650 offers reporting on whats caused the crashes (by dialing #*377 on euro GSM phones - it varies I believe)... if you're getting crashes find out what third party app is causing the crashes and remove it! Personally I've had 1 crash in the last quarter - stop blaming Palm for what third party developers are doing wrong!