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Palm Treo 680 (QWERTY, Grey) | 
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| Brand: Palm
Category: CE
Buy Used: $134.99
New (5) Used (8) Refurbished (3) from $134.99
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 24265
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 6.3 x 4.1
MPN: 1049EU
Model: 1049EU
UPC: 805931016522
EAN: 0805931016522
ASIN: B000KJNWME
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Check out the interactive guide for the Palm Treo 680 online by clicking here.
Say hello to the Palm Treo 680 smartphone. It's your phone along with email, messaging, and web access.Not to mention your contacts, calendar, photos, and songs. Sounds like a lot. And it is. But everything's so easy to learn that you'll actually use it, which makes it anything but a typical phone.
The same goes for design. Pick it up and youll notice a large colour touchscreen and an easy-type keyboard. Since the Treo 680 is just the right size, you have the freedom to take it anywhere and still be connected to friends, work, and family. Of course, there's also something called an "off" button, for when you don't want to be connected at all.
Phonesenjoy easy-to-use features such as multi-party conference calling and speakerphone.
Emailsend and receive email from corporate and personal email accounts, including AOL, Gmail, and Yahoo!.
Webdownload web sites fast using the award-winning Blazer web browser. With a simple touchscreen, its on-the-go web access youll actually use.
Messagingfire off a text message, or send photos and videos complete with audio captions. Plus, see the whole conversation in a chat-style view.
Multimediasnap photos, create slideshows, shoot video, play songs. Even record your own ringtones.
Built-in Organiserbe as together as you want to be with your calendar, contacts, to-do list, and memos right at your fingertips.
Documents to Go download, view, and edit Word and Excel compatible files, rehearse a PowerPoint presentation, even review PDF files.
Bluetooth Technologyconnect to GPS, headsets, car kits and more all without wires getting in the way.
Dial-up Networkinguse your smartphone as a wireless modem for your laptop.
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Two Stars and a Mercy Star for Palm's Good Intentions October 4, 2008
Kelly L. Norman (Plymouth, MI United States)
On paper, the Palm Treo should be the greatest thing since fresh baguette in France.(Anyone who has eaten a freshly baked baguette in France knows it far outrates sliced bread of any other kind. But back to our product). Actually, in January of 2008 I bought my first Treo 680 and it worked like a dream, in concert with the provider service. Phone calls were great, the calendar function was as useful as my ancient Franklin Planner habit. I had three choices to link my work and home e-mail accounts and receive mail on my Treo. It was my first MP3 player, and I enjoyed loading it with songs in a variety of formats. It also made as good a camera as my idiot proof point and shoot for daylight shots (I should note that I purchased a 1 gigabyte memory card along with the Treo 680).
I was happy for about a month....until I let my Treo leave my eyesight for two seconds in a public place.
I never saw it again.
I had been so pleased with the first purchase that I happily paid full price the next day for a new one. That is where the trouble began. I am now in posession of my fourth Treo 680 since January, and the only reason I haven't exchanged it is because each one seems to have more wrong with it. My second Treo had problems receiving and making calls. My third Treo did last from February until July of 2008. But then the speaker went out, after only five months of normal activity.
I had my fourth Treo within days. But this one has too many faults to list. After three months, I again am having trouble with the speaker. Synchronization with my desktop is hit or miss; sometimes it takes a minute, sometimes six hours, and if I try to download songs I never get all of them at one time (and who wants to try another HotSync if it might last six hours?). The stylus works very poorly. The PDA does bizarre things, for example automatically deleting bunches of tasks when I open the "to do" list application. Late one night at work, knowing I needed to go to an early meeting the next morning, I tried to open the calender application to add a note about the meeting location. The result: I lost a good half-hour sleep and I had to find a scrap of paper to write the information on anyway.
I understand Palm is outphasing the Treo 680. But is that an excuse for poor workmanship?
Perhaps my first Treo, had I not lost it, would still be meeting most of my data management needs; but Palm would be smart to make sure quality does not deteriorate during the entire time they offer the next model.
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