Treo 700w Review: Part 1

Tip for the Picture speed dial for those that want to use it. I noticed the same slow down when I tried it on mine. However after resizing my contact pictures to 45x45 it appears to have gone away. The default picutes showed in the blog entry are about 27kb. Resized to 45x45 they go down to 2kb. Hey you associate enough pic's to contacts and 27kb adds up.

Rey - You can't. Verizon doesn't want people to "tether" their phone with their laptops...so they didn't allow for that functionality. :(

Rey - I ran into the same problem. I think it's a bug, and will need to be fixed with a patch.

I've had a problem with my bluetooth automatically connecting to my handsfree car kit. Sometimes it connects automatically, and sometimes I have to reset, and reconnect. It's insanely annoying. And I definately think that they could have given us more "settings". I can't even set the car kit as a trusted device....and I think that's the problem.

Sammy - The big tado wasn't that windows mobile 5.0 existed, but that it was running on a palm device. Also, while there are many phones running win mobile that have tons of functionality, they aren't treos...and they don't have the benefit of having palm's engineers working with ms to create one handed operation throughout. Not to mention that die-hard palm OS fans have been quite a bit violated by this move. Can't really blame them either.

Will the 700W work with Lotus Notes?

You can use the treo and a laptop for DUN. (linking treo to the laptop to use the treo as the modem)

Goto treocentral .com's dicussion board and search for DUN.. I forgot the link.

JM

http://www.junefabrics.com/pdanet/beta.php

Link to DUN on the treo..

John Masters RULES!!! Thanks for the tip.

I bought the TREO 700W today and have been learning about the various features. I am impressed with it BUT I live in a somewhat remote area and down in a valley. With my Motorola V710 which has tri-mode capability I was usually able to make and receive calls. I can't complete calls with the all digital 700W. It will connect and drop within a few seconds. If I can't resolve I may have to return the 700W. Karl

Does anyone know how to make wireless sync stay connected?

Update to all. I spoke prematurely on the bluetooth problem. I had to reconnect the first few times I got in my car with my bluetooth car kit. However, since then, my 700w has connected without fail everytime I get into my car. I don't know what the problem was at first, but whatever it was, has worked itself out without my intervention. I'm glad too because that could have been a deal breaker.

I picked up one of the new 700W phones yesterday and have been pretty impressed with it (coming from an older Palm cell phone).

I have had one issue with it though - in syncing with my exchange server via laptop over Nortel Contivity VPN client, the activesync connection is shut down by the VPN software for security purposes.
Apparently the 700W's activesync software uses IP to communicate with the phone over the USB cable. However, the VPN client software deliberately blocks all IP network traffic with non VPN networks (ie, the Treo 700W).
With the PalmOS HotSync - the connection was not using IP networking - and it could sync with the remote Exchange server over the laptop's VPN connection.
Anyway - this aspect of the Treo 700W's interaction with VPN software could be problematic for those of you looking to sync over a laptop VPN connection.
I did find a PocketPC version of the Nortel Contivity VPN client software (http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/01/contivity/multi_os/)
- but this is for a different version of the OS, and probably for a different processor.
Anyway - the phone so far is great, but this VPN issue could be a problem when syncing on the road via laptop.
Any thoughts or suggestions on a workaround for the VPN issue would be appreciated.

Help! I want to get rid of my blackberry and become a Treonaut! Here's my delima...650 or 700? I am familiar with the windows mobile os but I don't want that from preventing me from getting the "better" device. I'm looking to purchase in the next couple of days. Please help!!

I have moved from a Palm T2 to the 700w. I can't figure out how to get around the calendar without using the stylus. I'd like to go from day to day in the month view and scroll up and down in the week view but the month view jumps whole months and the week view jumps weeks.

Is ther a way to do this without the stylus?

Thanks

Bought the 700w last Thursday and have been loving it.

I have never used the palm os in the past so I can't compare one system to the other, but I really like the form and function of this unit. You can do almost everything one handed, without a stylus.

I bought this primarily because of its EVDO capability and it is FAST.

By the way, you can tether it to your laptop, as I am at this moment. PDANet, by bluefabric, already has a downloadable program specifically for the 700w. It is quick and easy to install ( 5-10 minutes and I was up and running ). You use your sync cable to tether to the laptop ( they said bluetooth will come but USB is much faster)

Free to try and $ 35 to buy

palm had to make the screen with the 240x240 resolution. Windows Mobile has to be square and only supports 2 sizes- 240 or 480.
You will still get as many lines as the other products. The smaller screen also gives longer battery life.

I love everything about this phone, but will not be able to keep if I can't resolve this email problem. I have different accounts that all allow for POP access and have got all to work (sending and receiving). The problem I am having is that when I POP with my 700w, it downloads the mail into the inbox of the account I have created (seems to be working fine). When I go to POP again with my server, it deletes my entire inbox??? I spent a few hours on the phone with PALM support today and their guess was when the PALM connects to the POP server, it sees no new mail and essentially syncs the current inbox to reflect that of the POP server(no new mail). I am wondering if I have a bad unit or this is normal? I have set all the accounts up to display the messages of the past three days, but I can't seem to get it to display the messages I received from the last POP five minutes ago? Specifically, I have set up my GMAIL account POP to keep the messages in the inbox vs. deleting, so I am not quite sure why it continues to wipe out my inbox every time I go to check for new messages? HELP! Thanks

I saw several comments about synching personal and public folders, but no answers. This seems to be a common problem. Is there a recognized solution?

Cannot get the gmail connection to work. I think I am having issues with the incoming and outgoing POP servers. I saw somewhere on the Gmail site to just put local host there.

If anyone has a link or some info...I would appreciate it.

The 700W is a nice upgrade from my older 600.
One minor issue: I accidentally added a new IMAP account that should have been Pop - guess what - once it's saved you can edit everything except mail type for the acct and I can find no way to delete the account. So, I can't fix the account by changing it to Pop and I can't delete it!
Anyone know if I'm missing something or know of a config file I can manuall edit?

After having the phone for a while, I noticed that the time zone information is set wrong. I have the phone configured to pick up the time (and time zone) information from the cell phone network (Verizon) - and it is picking up the wrong time zone.

I live in NY state - which is ET, but it is showing up as Indiana time. I spoke with Verizon about this - they had me do both software and hardware resets with network resyncs - but no luck.

We even talked to Palm tech support about this issue - and they observed the same behavior during training on the phone in Florida. So this problem is not unique to my phone settings - or my specific phone.

Has anyone else seen issues with the Treo 700w's time zone settings from the Verizon network?

I just wanted to add my $0.02 here.

I just got the 700w in order to respond to our customer service email more quickly - and also to remotely ssh to our server for admin issues.

1. anyone using IMAP, who also has a good deal of files in their home dirs will have issues. Apparently you cannot tell the 700w to index only certain dirs, and it will recursively go through them all - rendering the device basically frozen.

2. Using multiple IMAP accounts, even if you set the 700w to check all accounts every 5 min. it will only check the account you are currently viewing or have selected - the others will need to be manually switched to and checked in order to see if you have new email. I still havenot figured out a way to have the device automaticlly check all the email account you set up. It would be very sad to have to use some third party app as a work-around - like having your server send a special text message to the 700w in order to tell the 700w to check your email account for new mail.

3. It appears that the 700w only indicates (on the today page) new emails that arrive in the "inbox" and ignores other sub-dirs. This notification issue may be an IMAP server config issue - I havent explored that possibility yet.

4. There is no Push-esque functionality here - real time email notification is no where to be found. You can apparently set the 700w to check your email account (read point 2 above)
at regular intervals, even every minute, but then you will not be able to make or recieve calls. Whenever the email is being ul/dl you are cut off from calls. Only when the connection is established, and idle, are you able to make/receive calls. Very annoying if you are waing for an important email to arrive while talking to someone.

Please keep in mind that these findings are only from 1 days use. During this time I had to "soft reset" the device about 6 times due to the IMAP issues causing the device to hang forever.

Anyone have experiences similar to these?

Help!! I have been using the Treo 650 for about a year and am not happy with the quality of the phone. The reception on my daughter's cheap phone far exceeds that of my Treo. Callers tell me that they cannot hear me clearly and many times, the calls are dropped. I have been to Verizon about this and they say the phone is working properly. If this is not resolved, I will be forced to abandon the format all together.

I have been using an Axim pda for years, and a seperate verizon phone. Wll this new Treo 700 be able to satisfy both needs. Also can I use my current e-mail address with this phone?

Any input would be appreciated.

Dan

This is my first shot @ a smart phone, love the pc but HATE the phone. I am on the phone 40 to 50 hrs a month and can live with a shorter battery life but will no longer put up with Verizon and their excuses for dropped calls. I should have known better friends have problems with Verizon coverage, as soon as I can get a GSM version from Cingular I am going to change over.

I have the new Treo 700. I have the Outlook-connector installed but I can not seem to syncronize my calendar or contacts. My emails sync just fine. My Outlook contacts have gone to my MSN account but not the calendar. When I go to the Active Sync and select options, the Contacts choice is light gray and will not allow me to select this option. The calendar choice is checked but still does not sync. Help? Thank you

With the new Treo 700, will I have to get a new e-mail address, or can I use my current one? My current address is not with Verizon.

Dan