The Treo 650
 

I'm still waiting on my Treo 600. A-HEM.

I wish they would get rid of the T28 antenna.

Yesterday afternoon I sat next to an exec from AT&T Wireless on my flight home from ATL-PBI.

I told him I was considering switching from my Blackberry to the Treo and he strongly suggested waiting for this new model to be released. He felt the keyboard design and key size are much improved.

And then what? Switch to a crappy internal antenna? Good reception was the onyl decent thing the Treo600 had going for it...

Treo600 a flop in Europe:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759...129TX1K0000605

HTC starts shipping new PDA phones
 

Seems like HTC has started shipping the new Treo 650 to PalmOne.

See
Treo-650-Produktion gestartet (German) and
HTC starts shipping new PDA phones to PalmOne this month.

it's official
 

Hands on with the Treo 650
http://www.treocentral.com/content/Stories/474-1.htm

http://www.palmone.com/us/products/smartphones/treo650/

What do y'all think?

I'm tempted to do a long-overdue upgrade from my kyocera "smartphone."

My wife has the 600, and as I look at the specs, the biggest difference to us would be the removable battery, that's a way better option then the huge snap on back up battery you can get for it now.

I'm wondering if there will be an upgrade route, since they have an upgrade features list. Unfortunatly, Sprint is currently saying no, but if you have bene a customer for 18 months they will give you the $150 off they give new customers (down to $449 from the $599 list).

C-net is also reporting that you can get them in November from Sprint, but not until sometime next year from anybody else, according to their story

"We will be the only ones with these phones for a while," said John Garcia, senior vice president of sales and distribution for Sprint PCS, speaking at a press conference at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment trade show. "We are very excited about buying a very large quantity of these."

And of course, the cable is different, so any accessories you have now, well just buy all new ones.

Played with a 600 this morning. One word: HEAVY. Is it make out of lead? :td: :p

The 650 is still just a palm. The 600 DID NOT impress me, and neither does the 650.

I mean, anno 2004 still no WiFi????

I dunno, I'm happy with my 600 :)

I love my 600 and it is now and extention of my left hip.......

It's not just a palm, it's a palm, and a phone, and a way to get e-mail and to the internet (though the internet functions leave something to be desired). My palm doesn't do all that, the wife's treo does.

They are talking like wifi will be an ad on in the spring, they didn't have the time to get it in place for shipping.

Palm - with the thousands of apps that go with it.
Phone, with spearkerphone.
MP3 player with 1GB of MP3's on board.
Camera.
Pushed real-time email and Outlook calander synch (I'm using Good, but there are mutiple mail solutions),
AOL/Yahoo/MSN/ICQ char client, 80kbps wireless modem (no, not WiFi, but there's a lot more Sprint PCS coverage than WiFi hotspots - and it's free/included)
Wireless access to area code lookup, whitepages, airline flight status, etc.
Sound recorder
Video recorder
etc.

Yes, it's heavy vs. just a phone. How much does a phone, PDA, MP3 player, camera, etc. weigh if you have to carry all of them?

As for the 650 - not that much a leap over the 600 to make me switch. A few nice improvements, but not the same as the 300 to 600 jump.

Wi-Fi: I thought they told us during a briefing (prior to the official annoucement) that there will be a Wi-Fi SD card for the Treo in the future. However, I can't find it in any of my notes.

Trade-ups: In the same briefing, they said any trade-up offers would be via the phone providers (Sprint, etc). Given that the 600 is not that old, I would not count on much in the way of upgrade offers. Hope I'm wrong.

Michael
http://www.biztrip.com