Palm Treo 800W Review
Marketed directly to corporate customers and the enterprise market is the new Palm Treo, featuring a full QWERTY keypad for making rapid-fire composing and sending of emails and text messages a breeze. A mid-sized smartphone (not too small, not too large), the device is low on frills, focusing instead on serving up those qualities and features that matter most to enterprise customers with gusto.
In a proud and professional looking slate blue plastic casing with a firm grip and a soft touch finish, it’s the first Palm smartphone to feature the latest version of Windows Mobile (that being Windows Mobile 6.1),pretty much agreed-upon all over as a vast improvement over its predecessors. And thanks to the WinMo 6.1 OS, the Palm Treo 800w has excellent multi-tasking capabilities.
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The device is 4.41” long x 2.28” wide x .73” thick, and weighs 5 ounces, making it larger than the Palm Centro but smaller than the previous Palm Treo 700w. It’s also 2 ounces lighter than the Treo 700w And despite being encased in all-plastic, the latest Treo nevertheless feels more sturdy and hardy than the Centro.
Other characteristics that make the new Treo 800w far superior to the Treo 750w are Sprint EVDO Rev A support, Wi-Fi (with a dedicated button atop the device for instantly connecting to preconfigured networks), and a built-in GPS (finally!). The Sprint EVDO Rev A network connectivity is super-fast and reliable, and call-quality is consistently clear.
The fast and reliable high-speed connection aside, the Treo 800w does still suffer from Microsoft’s dismal Internet Explorer browser with poor HTML email-viewing abilities.
Another pleasing quality of the latest smartphone entry from PDA progenitors, Palm, is a higher resolution screen (at 320 x 320), a welcome improvement, to say the least. Both graphics and text are sharper and clearer than ever on this newest Palm. The touch screen is a little weak – not Palm’s most developed technology – with better responsiveness from using the included stylus than form finger taps.
The new Treo comes with 256 MB of internet memory with a microSD card slot for up to 8 Gigs of expansion.
Palm’s most feature-rich device to date, the Treo 800w also has several appealing convenience features frequent users will appreciate, like a Today screen that appears whenever you first power it up, displaying (among other things) an option to use the built-in GPS to search for particular points-of-interest without requiring that you launch a separate application.
Folks familiar with Palm OS’s standard SMS interface know that some things don’t need improving, and will be glad to see that text-based conversations are still as easy as ever to manage.
Sprint sells the Palm Treo 800w for $250 with a 2-year contract, after rebates.
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