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| palm Treo 700w Smartphone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: palm
Category: Wireless
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Avg. Customer Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 6421
Color: Blue
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Display Size: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: LG-VX9800M
UPC: 805931014795
EAN: 0805931014795
ASIN: B000E6MFXA
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| Customer Reviews:
 This one is Good... next generation? Probably great! September 15, 2007
My Treo 700w has become a perfect compliment to my work laptop. For better or worse, my Treo has become an intregal part of how I do business. It works (usually seamlessly) with my Microsoft Outlook and calendar (My phone vibrates 15 minutes prior to all of my meetings). My Outlook contact list (and all of those phone numbers!) are instantly transferred into the phone's contact list- it really has revolutionized the way I organize all of my business trips! On a trip I list all of my visits, agendas, contacts and directions into my Outlook account and presto they are linked straight into the Treo and available to me while I am on the road.
Other features-
- Internet connectivity - sure it is "watered down" webpages, but it does give me pitch-by-pitch updates on my favorite baseball games!
-Pocket versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- The camera is surprisingly good! Also, you can instantly email any picture that you take.
- Will capture movies too.
- Verizon V-cast - although I have never used this feature
What MUST be improved
- Very unstable - I have to reset the phone once a day. In fact, just today for some unknown reason my Treo went back to factory settings. This meant that I had to track someone in IT down to "resync" the Treo with my Outlook account (This is not a trivial matter).
- Poor reception as a phone... probably the worst reception I have had on a phone in the last 7 years
- Battery life = 1 day
- Needs at least 1 gig of internal memory - the current version is woefully underpowered.
- Opening attachments in emails is hit-or-miss at best.
My recommendation- despite its limitations I believe that the Treo 700w is the best business phone out there. The new Iphone is nice- but it will not link to my Outlook account... and that is a deal killer for me. Therefore, I give a thumbs-up to the Treo 700w, but I can not wait for the next generation!
 A Complete & Total Disaster September 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned the Treo 700w since February 2006 & it has been nothing but trouble the entire time. It locks up & crashes randomly; it makes calls & opens the internet all on its own, even when locked; it has NEVER sync-ed properly with either Microsoft Office or Lotus Notes; and internet navigation would be quicker in mud. (Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, the play was great.) The ear piece it came with never worked properly -- the connection was forever coming in & out -- and when I purchased a new one from Palm, it worked just as poorly. That last expereince -- and an unsuccessful & greatly frustrating effort to contact Palm customer service via the Palm web site -- convinced me never to purchase a Palm product again (which is a shame because I had liked earlier Pilot's I'd own a great deal). But all along I thought that maybe I had a lemon, until last weekend the New Work Times ran an article by tech-guru Joe Nocera reporting his similar, indeed even worse, experience with his Treo 700p, and a quick look at the other reviews here confirms that our experiences are all too common.
 Great Upgrade September 5, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I previously had and used a CX6700 and hated every minute I had with that thing. This isn't perfect, but a lot of the shortcoming have been fixed in this product by Palm.
The best improvement is the stability. I was rebooting the 6700 on a daily basis, if not more, but this I reboot probably once a week, if not less.
The thing I use this for the most, other than tracking contacts and my calendar, is checking Email. I check five eMail addresses on a regular basis and this is quite flawless. I can customize each account a certain way and I've never had problems picking up eMail... even with one of them being behind a firewall I have to VPN into first. No problem!!
The integration with Office and Windows is fantastic, especially since the OS on this phone is by Microsoft. Palm has still not updated their sync program for Windows Vista so having Microsoft's support on this is extremely helpful.
I like the front screen better than the Palm version in that I see information (upcoming appointments, past do items on my to-do list, messages) instead of being presented with program icons that I more likely don't use. I've added on some software that makes this even more presentable.
The keypad works great, though I do wish they had a colon as a button. it has a semi-colon but to put in a colon I have to bring up the on-screen keyboard and select it there. Looking at the screen, they could have done it, and I'm a bit baffled why they chose not to.
The screen is vibrant and colorful. It isn't as large as the 6700's but I rarely miss the larger size. It is a touchscreen and that works without any issues.
My biggest complaint is the battery life. But they at least had the wisdom to make the battery removable so you can carry around a spare. If you don't have a spare, expect to charge it daily if you use it often enough. For slight usage (in which case, what is the point) you can probably get away with charging every other night.
This is missing one thing... Wi-Fi. How could that have been forgotten?!?! I'd rather use Wi-Fi over Sprint's slow wireless network.
Another personal gripe can be the size. For what it can do, this is very compact, but I look at my wife's slim phone and often get jealous. Of course, hers doesn't do have the things mine can do. But keep that in mind... be prepared to be carrying around a small brick if you pick up this phone.
This phone does already have a successor (I should have reviewed this a year ago) with a newer operating system and without that annoying antenna on the top. When my contract is up, I'll more than likely go that route unless I decide to go with a smaller phone and carry around a PDA. But right now you can pick this phone up at a bargain of a price compared to that other one and lose very little functionality. So I'd suggest you do your homework and see if the newer one is worth the few hundred dollars you'd be plopping down for it.
But thus far, despite a few complaints, I love this phone and it has worked very well for me.
Sluggish, Weak PDA with Good Features and Crappy Performance September 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
'I hate my treo' is a daily term I tend to say...often out loud in frustration. I try to put in a simple calendar reminder...it crawls, or freezes. I usually have the reset the phone once a day after it crashes. The memory allocation is terrible. Sometimes, just making a simple call is the hardest thing to do. I hope I don't have to dial 911 with it...I fear it may take me a good minute for it to dial as I wait for this junk to catch up with itself.
It reminds me of carrying around an old PC that slowly chugs.
What a waste of a phone. My guess - this is totally a windows problem. But then again, Palm is the one who decide to give this thing so little open memory to work with. Probably why is crashes so much.
If you can get the features this phone has, but do they right - go for it. Otherwise, this is a crappy phone that can hardly make a call, can't take a decent picture, perform simple PDA tasks at a snails pace.
I hate my treo. I really do. And it's been almost 2 years. Good riddance.
Treo 700w verizon sucks August 14, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well, here is the deal. We purchased 20 treos last december. they worked great for about 2 months, then the real treo came out. We have to take the battery out everyday on every treo 700w. it freezes constantly, internet fails, calls dropped with full signal strenght. slowness and sometimes up to 30 secs of a delay when you press a button. so many more i just want to get rid of this phone so fast, but the 2 year contract does not allow me to as verizon does not seem to fix the issue.
PS we also bought 1 cingular 750w and it sucks more. it freezes and the speakers dont work and we also need to take the battery out. Soon moving to blackberry
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