Palm Treo 750 Smartphone (AT&T) | Review for the Palm 750 and sevice with Cincular & Amazon

Palm Treo 750 Smartphone (AT&T) | You can keep your Cingular phone number.

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	Palm Treo 750 Smartphone (AT&T) Palm Palm, 2006 average customer review:based on 57 reviews view larger image
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Review for the Palm 750 and sevice with Cincular & Amazon

I am very satisfied with my choice to purchase my phone and phone plan through Amazon. We saved $500 on just our phones by going through Amazon. Our products were received 2 days ago. They were up and running that same day. I spent most of the day speaking with Cingular & Palm, learning this extreme phone and everything it can do. My only disappointment is finding out my particular email provider, Bellsouth/At&t, the way it receives email, Pop3, does not allow me to receive my emails into my Outlook files in my phone. I had to set up a separate file. It really isn't too big of a deal, because I do not want to have a bunch of emails stored on my phone, anyways. I can still send/receive/save/create, but just not into my same Outlook folder I have on my notebook. It will sinc up and stay up to date.

I needed to add something to my phone plan and I was within the guidelines of my contract; therefore did not incur any charges with Amazon. In fact, I found out through the representative, I could reduce my phone plan all the way down to a 39.99 plan without breaching the contract. (I won't do that because we need a large family plan, but atleast, I know I can if need be.)

If you are looking into purchasing this type of phone, please don't expect to have everything run perfectly. There is work to be done. Lots of hours on the phone with representatives, because every person has different needs and the phones are set up in a general use. For instance, I want to have my phone sinc with my computer via Bluetooth instead of USB. For this to happen, I had to call Palm and have them walk me through the steps, which took a full hour. I will be able to set my husbands phone up faster now that I've gone through the steps, but it does take patience and time.

If you need full access to the internet and maybe 1000 txt, IM, and photo messages are sufficient, I would suggest the Amazon 49.99 plan with Cingular and adding the teathering capability to use your phone as a modem with your computer for an additional $10 with Cingular. (Amazon does not offer teathering plans). This information took all day for me to understand. I thought I would save someone else the time.

I have 90 days of free support with Palm on the use of this phone, so I better get busy learning about it.

Thanks

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You can keep your Cingular phone number.

Just to clarify, rather than rate the phone, since I just got it today. I transferred my old number from my Cingular Razor to my new Cingular Treo 750 today with no problem.

Good phone, but battery life is a serious issue (EDIT: NOT ANY MORE, BATTERY WRORKS GREAT)

I thought I would post my experience with orderig this phone through amazon. I had many doubts, so I hope this helps a few people out.

Here we go:

I was a verizon customer, with an expired contract. I wanted this phone, so I switched to cingular.

I also wanted to keep my number, but I wanted this phone more than I wanted my number, so I ordered it knowing I might not be able to keep my verizon number. It turns out I WAS ABLE TO KEEP MY VERIZON NUMBER. It is true this phone comes "activated" and they even sent me my new cingular number in an email before I get the phone in the mail. As soon as I got this email informing me of my new number, I called cingular, explained the situation, and there were able to assign me my old verizon number. They also said Amazon will NOT charge me to do this. Things were looking good.

I anxiously watched the tracking information and I was pretty upset because it didn't update for three days. On the 17th of feb, I ordered the phone. On the 20th it said USPS was notified of a package, but hasn't got it yet. On the 23rd, it updated and said my phone was in my city on the truck. So the tracking is pretty lame, but in the end, my phone came in the mail two days BEFORE the expected arrival date, another bonus.

I opened it up, popped in the sim card, and within 10 minutes, I was able to make calls. Accessing the internet is another story. I called tech support and they were really nice. We tired everything known, and after an hour I was told to take it in and get a new sim card. Great.

I took it into cingular, and they worked on it for about an hour. It would work with the sim card from the store managers cell phone, but not with mine. We tried two new sim cards, and nothing. Finally, another person came to the rescue, recognized that it wasn't authorized somewhere in the system. We had to call a special data technical service and they activated it. It now works great. So after about three hours, I had my phone and I was ready to go. First thing I did was install google maps, everything worked great. I don't know if the problem was becasue I got it from Amazon, but it eventually got fixed and the phone works flawlessly.

I have never had a treo before, but I really like this phone. The camera is weak, but everything else is very functional. I would give this phone 5 stars except..............

Next up, email. The push email client was very easy to setup. The problem is that it drains the battery life like crazy. It is essentially useless becauase the battery only lasts about 8hrs with minimal use (10 minutes, internet, 20 minutes talk time, 10 minutes playing with the contacts/scheduler) This won't even get you through the day. If you leave your house at 8am, your phone is dead at 4pm. Not cool.

I did some searching, and it turns out the push email client drains the battery because it is constantly connected and sending information back and forth. Disabling this feature should increase battery life tremendously. Apparently the 8125 runs the same program without a problem, and because this is such an issue, they will come up with some kind of software patch.

I am going to charge the phone tonight, turn off push email, and see if it makes any difference....i will update with results.

UPDATE: Sorry about not updating, I forgot because my treo's battery is absolutely fine now. It turns out many people jump the gun and freak out about the battery life during the first week.

After using it for a week and barely getting through an eight hour day, it seems the battery gets stronger and stronger. I also read to keep it plugged into the charger whenever you get the chance. It seems letting the battery run dry and then charging it is actually worse, so keep it charging as much as possible.

After a week or two, I was able to get 24hours easily without charging. Just last night, I noticed my battery was about to die, but that was because I hadn't charge my phone in about 40 hours!

So, bottom line: The battery will suck for the first couple of weeks, but stick with it and you will end up with a pretty sweet phone.

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Don't plan to keep your current number

I was ordering a Treo 750 online via Amazone a few nights ago, got to practically the final screen to okay the purchase. I suddenly realized I had not ever been asked what my current mobile number is. Backed up, started to try to figure this out: online info for Amazone explains that Cingular currently "not capable of porting" one's current number to a newly purchased phone. That is if you order through them, just be ready to start using a new number. I decided to wait and not order just yet.

Activation Problems- Beware

I received this phone yesterday. I purchased a new line of service, with a new phone number. The instructions for activation say to pop in the SIM card and battery and within 15 minutes you'll receive a text message with your new wireless number that will be used to activate the phone. It's 32 hours later and I've yet to receive the message. So I have the phone but no wireless activities available to me whatsoever.

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