Wednesday, January 12, 2005

My Treo 600

I just got a Treo 600 from my wife last Saturday. I've been using a Sony P800 before that. My only complaint about the Treo is the screen and its camera. It doesn't show pictures as good as the P800. The unit however makes up for functionality and looks. The P800's case is blue plastic and doesn't look as cool as the Treo.

Being on a Palm platform, I loaded Plucker for offsite Website viewing. This was something I missed in the Ericsson / Symbian days. The Treo doesn't come with an MP3 player, but I got a free one after registering the unit at the palmone website. It also doesn't have an alarm clock, which I really need. Bob's Alarm came to the rescue. I didn't bother buying it, as the unregistered version works fine.

Syncing is where Palm shines. You could actually close the Hotsync completely in your PC, taking up no memory. The Sony sync software, in contrast, stays in memory from startup and refuses to be closed manually. You have to use the Task Manager to hunt down the 3 processes that are running.

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