Palm Treo 750 Smartphone (AT&T) | DETAILED REVIEW BASED ON WINDOWS MOBILE 5 & 6!

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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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DETAILED REVIEW BASED ON WINDOWS MOBILE 5 & 6!

FULL DETAIL Treo review with UPGRADE DETAILS!!!
I purchased the Treo 750 3 weeks ago. I¡¦ve upgraded to the Treo 750 for personal, not business use. I needed a phone that can hold all my contacts with more than just one phone number but more detailed information, and had a lot more computer functions. I am reviewing all the features first based on Windows Mobile 5- which is the software the phone comes with, and then the Windows Mobile 6 which I just installed [and WOW!] I now have the perfect phone!
To Upgrade your Treo to Windows Mobile 6, go to palm.com, it¡¦s on their home page.
I bought this through AT&T not Amazon, I did not want to risk any problems if the phone was damaged.

SIZE & FEEL:
I love the way this phone feels in my hand. I love the rubber texture and it feels smaller than it really is.

SCREEN
It¡¦s hard to see it in sunlight. But aren¡¦t they all? Otherwise I like it, size is good too.

BATTERY:
At first battery ran down very fast. If I left the house at 8am with 96%, by 7 pm it was already in the 40% and that is with some usage, push email not enabled, not playing music, but surfing the net a little. The booklet told me to charge as often as possible and not let it run down. I did that and it lasts a lot longer now. Sometimes 24 hours.

CONTACTS:
Has the following options for you to fill out: Picture, Company, Department, Job title, work tel, work fax, work address, home #, home address, mobile #, 3 IM, 3 emails, ringtone, webpage, office address, birthday, anniversary Category, Pager, Car Tel, and a lot more.

SPEED DIAL:
You can add speed dial to your Today screen which is your Treo Desktop or ¡§Finder¡¨. You can add up to 5 pictures and just by tapping them you are now dialing your best friend, or your parents. Have more than 5 important speed dials you want to add to the Today screen? You can add names below it of the other important contacts. In Windows Mobile 5, when you tap on a picture it takes a while for it to start dialing, the phone lagged a lot until I upgraded to Windows Mobile 6. All that has been fixed.

CALCULATOR: unfortunately I was really hoping for the full advanced calculator that came with the Treo 680 but the 750 comes with a basic calculator. So no cool conversions or EZ Tip like my Verizon phone the LG VX8300.

MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Works well I set up my email and it works well. I have it set to send/receive manually so battery does not run down while it¡¦s checking for emails all day. But you can set it to check your emails every 5 min and so on¡K In WM6 you have about 15 options - every 5,10,15,30,60 min etc..

INTERNET
Speed is pretty good, definitely faster than my old phone (LG 8300). It uses 3G, HSDPA or Edge whichever is faster in the location you're in. In WM5, my phone only connected to 3G, with the WM6 upgrade it now finds all 3 connections. To copy something you found on the internet (a link or a paragraph) and you want to paste it into email or text message, select Menu/Copy and wherever you want to paste it, you must tap the pen and hold it for a second and an edit menu will pop up to paste. This took me 3 weeks to figure out so I¡¦m sharing it. Hitting MENU in SMS or Email will not have a Paste option.

CAMERA
Camera quality is alright at 1.3mp, it¡¦s nothing fancy. I cannot disable the stupid Shutter sound unless I mute the entire phone (button on top of the phone puts it on vibrate and camera sound is disabled) but I¡¦d like to disable just the shutter sound and keep my phone on volume. You can change the size of your photos and resolution. There is no flash which sucks!! But there is a zoom to 2x.

VIDEO
When I first tried to view youtube and nothing would play. I even installed updates. With the WM6 upgrade I can now watch youtube! Video quality good, screen is a little small, but you can put it on Full Screen so it looks a little better. Not as big as the iphone though. Also youtube doesn't have many videos to view that are mobile capable, but they're working on it.

PHONE CALLS
Whenever someone called me and I hit ANSWER, most of the time I had to say ¡§HELLO?¡¨ Twice. People never heard me the first time, this was really annoying and many people complained about this. I also sometimes had to hit the button a few time before it'd finally answer. When phone was lying on my desk and someone sent me a text msg or called me, the phone would light up for 6 seconds before it would ring or receive the message. With the WM6 upgrade this issue is resolved and the phone responds very quickly, finally!

KEYBOARD
It's a little small for me, but within a week I adjusted well to the querty keyboard. My only complaint is the M button and the "." button. I always hit the dot instead of the M... But this MAY be to the fact that I don¡¦t have short nails...I had my husband type on this thing and he didn't have this issue. But the ladies with French tips may have trouble. You can also type on the screen keyboard by tapping it with your stylus but it¡¦s kinda small so I don¡¦t use it.

STORAGE:
I added the 2GB Mini SD card, I wanted more but read online threads and people had issues with their treo recognizing the card. So I bought the 2GB which most people said worked fine. I¡¦m sure though with the WM6 they fixed this issue so I¡¦ll try buying a 4GB card in the future. Copying music and files to it is very simple (from your computer), just drag and drop.

VOLUME
Call volume is good. Sometimes if you move the phone a little off your ear, you won't hear a thing. Speaker phone is loud and great. Music plays loud, happy with that. It's louder than my LG 8300.

TECHNICAL ISSUES
Phone froze once, had to take battery out to restart, this was in Windows Mobile 5. It never happened again.

NAVIGATION
I was misled at the AT&T store about the GPS navigation. I was told I have GPS in the phone and I can download the software. Unfortunately it will not work without a GPS receiver that you hook up to your car, and that costs about eight bucks. This sucks I might as well buy a nuvi! I have noticed that other phones they fixed this with newer models: the blackberry 8300 needed the hardware to work, and the 8310 does not, same goes for the Blackjack and Blackjack II. So I have a feeling the new Treo will have navigation and GPS built in and will no longer require an external receiver. Who knows? For some people it might be worth the wait this phone is already over a year old!

Active Sync
When you install the software and then plug in your Treo via USB to your computer it syncs all your Outlook contacts, AND your Yahoo contacts all together. Your Treo now has all your friends emails and everything. All your contacts on your phone are now in your outlook as well, since your CONTACTS are actually part of outlook. I actually liked this because it backed up all my contacts. If I lose my Treo or drop it in the pool all my contacts will still be on my computer. It also syncs all your reminders and appointments to your computer. When you upgrade to WM6, you can sync all your files as well, they will backup to your home computer. This is great! You can pick and choose what you want to sync every time you connect it, or not. Also syncs your Favorites in Internet Explorer.

TODAY SCREEN
You can set up and put anything you want on the today screen, and in your Start button. Put all your favorite program links and even upcoming calendar appointments will display on your today screen. You can change the theme colors as well, but they¡¦re limited. You got your baby blue, red, and a purplish blue. When you upgrade to WM6, you now have a green which is my favorite and it has more 3D shiny effect and looks new and cool.

GOOGLE MAPS-download
Again, will not work with GPS unless you got that receiver, but if you do have it, it will tell you where you are and you can select where you want to go (can look it up through contacts too), and say from: my gps location; To: home. It has Traffic option, and satellite view, so you can see your house and backyard with all the details pretty well. But you can still use it as you do on your home computer. When you upgrade to WM6, it does have a MY LOCATION option using some other new technology (which is not everywhere yet) and if you¡¦re in the hotspot it will pick up where you are.

MSN, & YAHOO! ON THE GO, GMAIL
Phone comes with msn Messenger and email. The others have to be installed. just open your internet browser, go to yahoo.com and click on download on the go. It installs very fast & easy.

ALARMS
I Had issues with this until I installed an alarm update and WM6 upgrade. The alarm wouldn't always go off in the morning. But now works fine. I wish I could pick an mp3 on my phone to play in the morning, but it only plays wave files and they have to be small file size to work.

File Browser
You can browse your files or hit Search if you cannot find a file (just like a computer)

Microsoft Office: comes with PDF viewer, Excel, & Word. I¡¦ve used Excel & Word. I¡¦ve emailed files from my desktop computer to my Treo and was able to view and edit these files with colors too. Fonts are limited, but when you upgrade to WM6, there is a whole font folder so I think you can install your own fonts. It also comes with Tasks, and Notes, which I use quite often for my Grocery lists and other things I need to do. If you upgrade to Windows Mobile 6, they throw in Powerpoint in as well!

GAMES
I like playing games on my phone especially on my one hour long train ride on the way to work. This phone comes with 2 games: Solitair and Bubble Breaker. I¡¦m not a fan of either. Downloading new games will cost you. I haven¡¦t found any free games online yet. And most of them are $20!

NEW STUFF THAT COMES WITH WINDOWS MOBILE 6: The new treos are now selling with the new WM6 software. The upgrade took about 30 min for me. First time had an error but I just restarted the upgrade and it worked perfectly! The palm website tells you how to do it step by step!

I was happy with my Treo before I upgraded the software but I did feel like something was missing¡K I guess I expected a little big more. And boy did I get it when I upgraded. They threw in tons of new programs and options in there! Here is what I now have:

MobiTv- I can stream live TV. Channels are limited and you get a 3 day free trial. I don¡¦t think I need this, so I tried it, and deleted it. I think it¡¦s like ten bucks a month. Quality is really, really good!

Cellular video-this is cool, you can watch any missed episodes of the Real World, or TNA, they have tons of shows you can browse through, cartoons, music, movies, TV shows. And it¡¦s all free no charge!! I did not find a FULL SCREEN option so it¡¦s very small because you have your pause and play options below it and black space all around the screen.

ATT MALL:
In windows Mobile 5, I had no way of downloading anything, but now I can go to the ATT Mall which has Music Player, Shop for Music, Music ID, XM Radio, Music Videos, Community, Music. Some of these are still empty because they¡¦re still updating their database, but I¡¦m very pleased that they are doing something and adding a lot of features.

SONG ID-this is cool, I had this on my Verizon phone for free, but AT&T charges it. But I tested it out on a few songs for free, I might add this on to my bill. (if you hear a song you like on the car radio or in a lounge, turn this thing on and it¡¦ll analyze the song and tell you what it is.)

Xm RADIO-has 25 channels and its $9 a month. You get a 3 day trial if you want to try it out.

Remote Desktop
This comes when you upgrade the phone to WM6, I have not tried it out yet.

USB Charge
This did not work in Windows Mobile 5 so I¡¦m so ecstatic that I t works now that I¡¦ve upgraded. I was always jealous of my coworker who charged his iPhone at work with his USB, and now I can too!

You can use this phone as a modem for your computer if you do not have internet at home, using your USB (maybe Bluetooth too I¡¦m not sure)

I really love this phone now that I upgraded the software it¡¦s more than I could¡¦ve asked for. I was hesitant about filling out my rebate form because I still wasn¡¦t fully fulfilled with the phone. I was upset about the navigation not working and the minor glitches, but the TV and video makes up for it...especially since my husband who has the Blackberry 8310 has navigation on it was so happy with his phone until I showed him that I now have TV & video streaming which he does not have. I think he¡¦s a little jealous now¡K º I filled out my rebate form today and can¡¦t wait to brag to my friends about all the cool new stuff I now have on my phone after upgrading it!

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I got this phone about a week ago. I was trying to decide between the Blackberry Curve and the Treo 750. So I got my girlfriend the Curve, and if I liked it better, I could just go with one as well. After about 30 minutes I knew I'd stick with the 750. Don't get me wrong, the Curve is also a nice device (the gf loves it), but I find the Windows OS user friendly and the phone keys + stylus navigation fluid. I'm not a big tech guy. I had a Nokia smart phone previously and never tied it to my email. Having every intention to do the same with the 750...within a day I had already signed up for the unlimited data and tied in my email account to the Treo. It's too good not to take advantage of. My only grief is it's somewhat bulky. This makes it hard to find a good case that's not attached to the hip. Other than that, the Treo 750 is highly recommended.

Cheers!

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