Mar 17 2007
Should I get a Treo 750?
My return to Houston is only 2 weeks away now and during my absence the long awaited release of the Treo 750 took place so now I am wondering if I really should run out to Cingular as soon as I get back and grab myself one? Heck if I decide to purchase one and there is a Cingular store at the airport (LAX or IAH) then I will probably grab one there!
I guess my main concern about it is the battery life as I will be a pretty heavy user of the 3G for web browsing and email so does anyone have personal experience with the 750 and it’s battery life? I mean from actually using it and not reading about it on some website!
I have really missed having a smartphone over here in Perth as I often go to check something on the web like a review for a product I am thinking of getting as an impulse buy or just checking the score on the cricket! My Treo 650 isn’t going to last much longer as it has seen quite a beating mainly due to the silly external antenna catching on things and launching itself out of my holster before exploding on the floor, I lost the stylus from one such incident!
There just seems to be a huge lack of 3G smartphones available in the States unless you are willing to pay the premium and get an imported phone so the Treo 750 seems like it is just about the only real choice as the others are either too bulky eg. the 8525 or don’t have a touch screen eg. the Blackjack.
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dude, wait for the N95. Dont know how the yanky networks will go (850) for the internet, but the rest of the functionality should work. Do you have HSDPA support with your carrier?
The N95 doesn’t have a QWERTY keyboard though and T9 would have to suck for emails, I can tolerate it for testing but I think I’d go mad trying to type an email with predictive text!
My current carrier doesn’t have HSDPA as of yet and the band they are implementing (1700 and 2100) is the only deployment of that band in the world so that kinda blows. For the 750 though I plan on jumping ship to a carrier that does have HSDPA (1900/850).
Basically I want a Quadband GSM, Triband UTMS, QWERTY Smartphone!