800w Reviews

[CozBoogie]

Sounds like a lot of satisfied Treo users! See what all of you Mogul users have been missing all this time!!!

late,
Coz

[brianb]

More reviews please!

I'm a Centro user & ex Mogul user. I'm seriously eye'ing the 800W. It sounds awesome so far, but I need more encouragement!

[savior02]

it should be faster than your mogul because it has more ram

[gm518630]

we havent been missing it all this time because,well,it just came out

and yeah im waiting on the ups truck now, hopefully it shows up before 4:45 when i leave for work

knicks summer league, the dark knight, and a great deal for my new treo and ditching the slowgul...my weeks lookin up

[jaggrey]

I'm interested in hearing more from those coming from the Touch. I'm debating whether or not I should spring for this device or hold out for the Touch Pro.

[winmobilelawyer]

Originally Posted by jaggrey

I'm interested in hearing more from those coming from the Touch. I'm debating whether or not I should spring for this device or hold out for the Touch Pro.

I'm in the exact same boat!

My main worries for the Treo are the screen size and the non-flush screen.

vs.

My main worries for Touch Pro are having to wait for the stupid screen to rotate when the keyboard slides out and non-one handedness (although I used to use a soft keyboard on the mogul for one handed use).

[ervman1]

Originally Posted by jaggrey

I'm hoping Opera Mobile 9.5 will work well on this phone. Having that on my Touch has been awesome!

Is there a huge difference in screen size on a day-to-day basis from Touch/Mogul to this phone? Or do you only notice it when doing certain things?

well im using Opera Mobile 9.5 v 1477 and i must say its working really well. in previous versions that i had for my mogul the url would hide after a few seconds if i was typing with the physical keyboard. only if i was using the on screen keyboard would the url and menus not dissappear...thats not the case with the 800w. i can type in the url bar as long as it takes without it vanishing...

and the difference in screen sizes isnt too big of a bother for me...in fact i barely even notice it....only when im reading something like the bible that i have on there that used to display a lot more on the moguls screen but its a tradeoff i will gladly accept. the one handed operation on this thing is incredible

[miketab]

The difference in the screen size bothered me for the first few days. Once I got used to it I hardly miss have a bigger screen.

The fact that I can use many applications at one time without worring about the memory and having things work without any real delay makes this upgrade worth a smaller screen.

[Trident]

I'd like to hear more about this also.
My Apache/6700 is starting to be weird and I was going to try to make it last until the Diamond/Rafael came out. But this seems like it might be an acceptable alternative.
My only concern is that screen...
Keep on coming with the comments. I'd love to hear from someone who has some issues with it. Everyone sounds too darn happy!

[grcafterburner]

I bought my Palm Treo 800w, yesterday. It's my third Treo. I had a 700p, then a 755p, and now this.

I have several complaints about it...

I thought that going from Palm to Windows Mobile OS would be a nice transition. It takes many more clicks to do anything now, than ever on Palm OS. So the U/I is my first complaint... but that's a OS choice thing...

The GPS is not that great... if you are not in clear open view of the sky in almost every direction, the GPS locks up the device for several minutes, trying to find it's own location.

I have yet to successfully connect to a wi-fi, even at home, where I put the Treo next to my wireless G router and turned off the router's encryption key.

There is no way to attach a picture to a text message. The only way to send a picture is thru email. *BTW* Has anyone got a crack for this??? I really enjoy sending picture mails.

The battery does not last near as long on this PDA as my previous two Treos... again, that could be an OS thing, due to all of the internet connections going on for the various apps that come with Windows Mobile. I charged my phone all night, last night, and by the time I drove to work (20 minute drive) and sat down at my desk, the battery is at 83%. I did not use the phone AT ALL on my drive to work. This is totally unacceptable... the "standby" time for the phone should at LEAST last one full day. It's not practical to keep the phone on a charger constantly. Otherwise, it's not really a "mobile device", is it?

I turned off the "auto sync" for my pop email... and yet, the device still logs on periodically and downloads my emails. Very annoying, since I purposely turned this off, last night, to save the battery, and it kept downloading emails every 15 minutes or so. Does anyone else have this problem with Windows Mobile? Or did I get a 'lemon'?

The buttons do have a better feel to them than my 700p and 755p. The touchscreen is not quite as 'light' as the other two... what I mean is, you have to push down harder, the screen cover feels slightly loose and the tracking is a little off... I don't see a way to set the screen tracking on this phone. On the Palm OS it was really straightforward to do.

The built in VPN and Exchange abilities will be nice... assuming they work. I've been very unimpressed with this device's reliability... for example: The GPS sometimes "sticks"... it just sits there and never comes back with directions. The internet connection works well, WHEN it works. 50% of the time, it says "dialing..." and then comes up with an error message saying "failed to connect." This almost never happened with my 700p or 755p.

The plug-in for the headset and the plug-in for the charger have now been combined into 1 slot (mini-USB). This makes charging while talking on your headset impossible without buy a splitter. Also, since the headset plug is now mini-USB, my other headsets for the 700p and 755p won't work with my new 800w without an adapter. (the charges keep racking up...) This is inconvenient, since now I'll have to buy and carry more adapters to get the same convenience I had with the 700p and 755p. IMHO, this is a "let's squeeze some more money out of the people" decision from Palm.

Anyway... my list of frustrations is growing with this device. If I don't get these issues cleared up, I'll go back to my 755p and sell the 800w.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!