Treo 600 Shipping Dates Updated, T-Mobile Release

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GNM

palminfocenter coverage rocks,
but that if it isnt about a SOny Clie, nobody posts.
The sony units are the worst ergonomically design doodahs that break at the drop of a dime with no one to turn to when they snap in half whilst drinking a flavored martini at a party for a new york socialite whose claim to fame is engaging in coitus with older men on video tape.

At any rate, I love the treo, and the everyone is looking to see when the next unit will arrive, hopefully with bluetoooth, but with as many eletronics that they have pushed inside of that small unit, that may have to wait. Added bulk is not wanted. I do wish the next model will allow developers to do more with the camera though.

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1st: Excuse my english, I'm german ;-)

I had a treo 600 for review.
I used it 3 days while writing the review.
It is big enough for a phone but the integrated keyboard is nothing good for me. It's definetely to small and it is "fumbling around" and no typing.
Why didn't they integrate the "normal" phonekeyboard plus T9-Software?
Bigger keys and faster entry.
The actual used keypad and navigation-pad features not the high building quality of the Tungsten T1 and T2 series.

Using the speakerphone-function on the treo is not very good for the opponent.
I could clearly (and loud enough) hear my opponent but he just could hear the half of what I'm saying.
If network coverage is too bad the phone produces high noiselevels during the call.

The camera is crap compared to the other camera equipped phones here in Europe (Germany).
Slow and the pictures are extremely "noisy".

The battery is not removable!
How could they? A phone wihtout changeble battery??

Polyphonic Ringtones:
The quality is poor and the phone seems to be kind of incompatible to GeneralMidi-Files.
SonyEricsson T610, Nokia N-Gage etc. play the file as they should!
Treo 600 plays the file as it thinks!? Ugly...

Handspring/Palmone are praising the one handed operation. Why? I think it's a MUST while using a phone.

Display is only 160x160px but that's ok.
The display is realy bright! You can easily use it as a torch to attract 14657921 mosquitos ;-)

Navigating through the phone menus etc. is solved good while the keys are too small :-)

The only other american phones we got in Germany where the ones from Motorola; and they had no big market share because of bad quality, lousy software, bad menus, slow responding software and no up2date Technology.
The V600 (bluetooth, mp3 ringtones...) seems to be a good start!

I think they all should learn a bit from the european and asian Companys how to build realy good phones ;-)

Have a nice weekend

Thomas

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