My Replacement Palm Treo 700p
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006My IT department convinced Verizon to replace my Treo 700p. You know, the 700p that lost an antenna cover, has been locking up, and its SD card voluntarily pops out.
My IT department convinced Verizon to replace my Treo 700p. You know, the 700p that lost an antenna cover, has been locking up, and its SD card voluntarily pops out.
My Palm Treo 700p requires a hard reset a few times a week. I’ve become expert at slipping off the back cover, then removing and reinserting the battery.
I am an unhappy Verizon Wireless and Palm customer. More on that in a couple of minutes.
In June 2006 my company purchased a Palm Treo 700p for me. They were simply exhausted by my constant whining about being stuck with a tired old Kyocera 414 (a fine, if low-cost, low function) phone that I’d purchased with my own hard-earned cash.
If you think you need a Blackberry in order to get push email, think again. ChatterEmail on the Palm Treo (700p in my case) works like a charm.
Did you know that Motorola ships 24 THOUSAND phones per HOUR? That’s 576,000 phones per day. Whew.
This weekend I finally took the plunge and set up a Jaber Bluetooth headset with my Palm Treo 700p. This was my first Bluetooth experience, and it went OK.
Jim Soriano wrote this comment about my recent SideKick 3 screed:
John Biggs writes in The New York Times about Courting a Hot Market With Cool Phone Service: “… right now the object of lust among [young people] is the T-Mobile Sidekick 3, which hit the market last month.”
Rob Pegararo of The Washington Post writes about A Year With a Treo 650.
After a week with my Treo 700p, I have learned (again) that things one wish for do not always turn out to be as good as our dreams.
Yun-Hee Kim writes about Motorola in The Wall Street Journal. He quoutes Simon Leung of Motorla:
After my first 24 hours with the Treo 700p, I have two applications up and running. ChatterEmail is my IMAP savvy email client, while IM Plus just now came to life on the AOL IM network.