New Treo Reviewed

Bill Koslosky writes "Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal just posted his review of the new Treo. His initial review of the Treo 300 inspired many, including myself, to purchase this PDA/phone device. 'I prefer it to any RIM BlackBerry model I have tested, and it blows away any of the PDA/phones based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system.' The Sprint CDMA version should be available in the beginning of October."

Nails?

[Anonymous Coward]

[A]t least one woman who tried my test Treo 600 hated the keyboard, saying it was incompatible with long nails.

Well, there goes the slashdot user base.

For Sale... Kyocera 7135 Palm Smartfone..

[mikewren420]

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? I gotta ebay it quick! :)

Hell, if Mossberg loves it, it must be good!

Ahhhhh, perfect...

[greg_barton]

...for pr0n.

From the article:
Unlike the older Treo, this new model can be operated most of the time with just one hand.

Re:palm os = blah

[ePhil_One]

I know I'm constantly aching to work on my doctoral disseration but am foiled by the lack of MS Word on my Tungsten T.

headache

[ajnlth]

I wonder if it helps against headaches, because atleast in Sweden Treo is a headache pill. (or maybe the electromagnetic radiation causes headache so you will need a Treo)

Long wait...

[Anonymous Coward]

The Sprint CDMA version should be available in the beginning of October.

<homer>Oh, but I want it now!</homer>

Know What I want in a PDA?

[Greyfox]

Emacs.

Emacs has all the software I need. It can remind me of appointments (The appointment Elisp code might need some tweaking to deal with hybernation,) it can be used to take notes, it can keep my contact list with BBDB. It'd be nice if it could synch up with EMACS on my desktop. I can't imagine that it'd take a lot of supporting code to do that. Yup, just give me a PDA with EMACS in ROM and figure out how to make its batteries last from 2 to 4 weeks and I'll be happy.

Re:Know What I want in a PDA?

[mopslik]

Emacs... I can't imagine that it'd take a lot of supporting code to do that.

I'm pretty sure the Emacs-on-a-PDA-support code is already in Emacs somewhere, if you look hard enough. You'll likely also find code to control nuclear reactors, and code to forecast complex weather patterns.

Re:Nails?

[show me]

Actually, several steps of editing changed her comment. What she actually said was, "I tried to play a Nine Inch Nails MP3 and it didn't work."

Make them easier to sync

[AssFace]

The two owners of this company need their gadgets in order to... well, I would assume impress others or something since they barely know how to actually use them.

One guy has the Nokia 6800 and it is pretty cool. Fortunately, it is new enough that he is still trying to figure it out and doesn't ask me about it.

The other guy has a Treo (I think the 270, but I'm not certain on that). He was using it with an ACT! database of contacts and calendar, but that kept crashing it and it was starting to get annoying on his desktop too (apparently ACT! has an odd way of building its database and after it gets really big, it starts behaving poorly).
So we converted him over to use the Palm Desktop stuff - he liked that.
But then he decided that he wants to use Outlook - this made sense since his secretary could then track a lot of his stuff as well in the calendar.

Unfortunately the syncing of the Treo is proving too complicated for him (getting duplicates and the like), and so this is meaning he is calling me in more and more to sit and try to figure out what the hell it is he is trying to do.

He told me that he wants something that he can just press a button and BOOM, it works.
I told him that was exactly what I wanted too.

Re:Everything except the flip cover

[Malfourmed]

The 300's cover is actually useful! Sure, it might look like a communicator from the original star trek

You're saying this like it's a bad thing...

Re:Hey Verizon!

[sacherjj]

I'm also in the same situation and thinking the same thing. My old cell phone and PDA have both seem quite a few years. Verizon, "Can you hear me, now?"

Re:Know What I want in a PDA?

[mrogers]

The only problem is finding a PDA with enough modifier keys. You don't want to be in a critical situation only to realize that "insert control rods" is Ctrl-Alt-Meta-Cmd-Shift-r and all you have is Fn and Caps...