Should I get a Treo 650?
May. 20th, 2005 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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My Treo 600 has finally given up the ghost. Yesterday, on the way to deliver money to LARC, I slipped on a bit of wet cardboard and went arse-over-tit in the drizzling rain. When I got to LARC I found that my phone was refusing to connect to the phone network claiming insufficient power, and a full recharge and hard reset is failing to persuade it otherwise. I'm borrowing an old Nokia handset (ex-![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitty_goth's and destined ultimately for ergotia's use) while I work out what to do about it.
The obvious object of desire is the next model up, the Treo 650, which seems to have just now become available through Orange. If I was superstitious, I'd think it was Meant, but I'm so not. And there's something telling me that I should think hard about getting a 650.
I used to have a Treo 180, but the flip-over screen snapped off. Apparently that happened to everyone who had a Treo 180. Then I got a 600. Since then I've learned the "taking the SIM out" trick to help it get online, had conversations while it was plugged in to the power so it didn't buzz so loudly, shouted into the microphone as it becomes unable to pick up my voice, and other annoyances. I believe that of those I know who also have 600s (wechsler, julietk, purplerabbits, some_fox, adjectivemarcus, [Bad username or unknown identity: one_other_-_shit_-_who_is_it?]) all of them have had problems of one sort or another.
About Revenge of the Sith, I've been saying "If you go to the same restaurant twice and they serve you shit both times, would you go a third time?". So I should probably be applying the same principle here.
On the other hand, Palm claim that they know about the reliability problems with the 600 and have gone to a different manufacturer for the 650 to address them, and I do feel a sort of loyalty to PalmOS. And the reviews look good. I want a smartphone, but I won't touch Wince of course, so the only competition is a Symbian-based phone - which would mean ditching all my apps and working out how to port across all my addresses and suchlike. So I'm torn.
Update: Of course, I could just get a free Bluetooth phone, and buy a Bluetooth Palm - would that be nearly as good?
What are all you other 600 owners thinking of doing?
My Treo 600 has finally given up the ghost. Yesterday, on the way to deliver money to LARC, I slipped on a bit of wet cardboard and went arse-over-tit in the drizzling rain. When I got to LARC I found that my phone was refusing to connect to the phone network claiming insufficient power, and a full recharge and hard reset is failing to persuade it otherwise. I'm borrowing an old Nokia handset (ex-
kitty_goth's and destined ultimately for ergotia's use) while I work out what to do about it.The obvious object of desire is the next model up, the Treo 650, which seems to have just now become available through Orange. If I was superstitious, I'd think it was Meant, but I'm so not. And there's something telling me that I should think hard about getting a 650.
I used to have a Treo 180, but the flip-over screen snapped off. Apparently that happened to everyone who had a Treo 180. Then I got a 600. Since then I've learned the "taking the SIM out" trick to help it get online, had conversations while it was plugged in to the power so it didn't buzz so loudly, shouted into the microphone as it becomes unable to pick up my voice, and other annoyances. I believe that of those I know who also have 600s (
wechsler, julietk, purplerabbits, some_fox, adjectivemarcus, [Bad username or unknown identity: one_other_-_shit_-_who_is_it?]) all of them have had problems of one sort or another.About Revenge of the Sith, I've been saying "If you go to the same restaurant twice and they serve you shit both times, would you go a third time?". So I should probably be applying the same principle here.
On the other hand, Palm claim that they know about the reliability problems with the 600 and have gone to a different manufacturer for the 650 to address them, and I do feel a sort of loyalty to PalmOS. And the reviews look good. I want a smartphone, but I won't touch Wince of course, so the only competition is a Symbian-based phone - which would mean ditching all my apps and working out how to port across all my addresses and suchlike. So I'm torn.
Update: Of course, I could just get a free Bluetooth phone, and buy a Bluetooth Palm - would that be nearly as good?
What are all you other 600 owners thinking of doing?
