Comments on: Treo 680 Camera Update Released

No, I'd just rather steer other prospective 700p purchasers away from it and hit Palm where it hurts.

Remember, Gek, I convinced THREE people (boss/colleague/friend) to buy 700ps. 2 of the 3 don't even use it as a phone, just as an e-mail device and PDAs. The one who uses it as a phone laments daily for swapping his V3c for a Treo.

The LifeDrive version 1.0 was still the worst Palm experience I've ever had, however. The 700p is a distant 2nd and the original T|T is the runner-up.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

That being said, one of the things I noticed right off about the 680 was seamless functionality, better stability, and Palm's greater attention to tech support avoidance. It comes with several little simple progs on the Palm and the install to help hold one's hands and explain things. The instrux for loading desktop over the 650s was near flawless.

I am shocked Palm is even in biz today after 3 years of tech support hell. T-Mobile won't touch them, and I'm sure CNG simply laid down the law on future devices. So far they seem to have went from horribly unnacceptable to soso as a phone maker.

My 680 still gets a NVFS key-pressin' nightmare lag about once a day. It lags badly for the first 5-10 seconds as the phone searches for a network. Otherwise the 680 has really been acceptable so far.

Hopefully, the pain may be ending.

Pat Horne

What makes you think Palm's EOLing such a huge chunk of their lineup?

LD was a dead man walking from day #1 but the 700p, 700w, and 700wx too?

Unless.....

The 700p, 700w, and 700wx are ALL the same device (LCD aside) sourced from two different OEMs. And there's something inherently wrong with the RAM chips used and/or the memory architecture of FrankenGarnet as it relates to the RAM used in those models.

This would also give fruther credence to the theory that the 700w and the 700wx are the SAME exact device and Palm just conveniently just "unlocked" the extra RAM on the wx via software.

Of course I could see Palm mildly updating the Z22 and E2 and making those their only conventional handheld models. Then a TX2 with 2-4gb of flash storage could be the replacement for both the LD and the TX. I

THEN, I still wouldn't rule out a quick rerelease of both the 700p and 700wx in the 680's formfactor come June.

Maybe the Palm "sherlock" is the WinMob of said Treo and the "Holmes" is the POS version? Palm can then introduce either SDHC full-size SD card support to both models at this time or go with the 750's FF and try to push miniSD (I prefer "big" SD personally). Threaded SMS could then make an appearance for WinMob and the revamped contacts/phone app can show up in a CDMA POS model as well.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

Giggle.

I always find it more than a little humorous when fanboys praise the cessation of a company kicking them in the stomach.