Saturday, February 12, 2005

Treo 650

I bought a Treo 650. I got an offer through palmOne that was too hard to resist. I've had it for four days now.

The transition from my Treo 600 was painless. Sprint did the "ESN swap" in less than 10 minutes. Moving my applications and data across took a few hours. In a couple cases I had to download software updates for applications that needed to be changed to handle the new NVFS file system. NVFS has a little more usage overhead than the earlier memory but that hasn't been a problem for me. All my existing data fit just fine — including several years of Calendar entries.

The new 320x320 16-bit screen is beautiful. It's the most noticeable change. Much crisper than 160x160 12-bit screen in the 600. The keyboard is a little different with a nicer layout. Bluetooth support is a nice — but I haven't bought a Bluetooth headset yet. The camera takes much better pictures; especially in low-light. Battery life seems about the same. Voice quality, signal strength, etc. are about the same as well.
posted by Bob at 2/12/2005 06:00:00 PM  | | digg | del.icio.us | reddit