I should make it clear I'm not trying to say that the 700wx is leaps and bounds different or better than the 6700 or trying to convince people to jump ship. That's an indivdual decision.
It just does things differently and I think a bit more efficiently, which is what you would expect from a new device with a later build of the OS. It also had a lot of Palm-specific tweaks you'll be hard pressed to find in other WM5 devices.
Case in point, voicemail & on screen controls:
or the ability to ignore a call w/ a text message:
Sonin66, what do you mean by comparing them neck to neck? Did you mean something like this:
MobieTechReview recently did a huge write up where they compared benchmarks?
Guess what?
The 6700 beat everything hands down.
But here's the rub:
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The unit (700wx--ed.) feels fast and responsive, and like the Treo 700w it feels a bit faster than the Sprint PPC-6700 Pocket PC Phone which has a faster processor and benchmarked faster than the Treo. Speaking of benchmarks, the Treo 700 pair lost nearly every Spb Benchmark test, yet they feel more responsive when opening menus, scrolling through windows and running core apps than other Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PCs and PPC phones. Palm must have done a great job caching frequently used core apps and related files (without using much memory? doubly impressive) .
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It really just comes down to form factor and what you like. If you like your 6700...then stick with it! Don't worry about all this other stuff.
If you're a fence sitter or have some issues, consider the 700wx, waiting for a "6800" (probably early 2007 sometime) or the "Q".