Thread: Palm Treo 750

Palm surprised us when it announced the Treo 750 with Windows Pocket Mobile 5, instead of its own own Palm OS. Some will say this is calculated to bring in improvements in interactivity, while others (including me) think it would have made more sense for Palm to spruce up its existing OS. Still, there's a lot the Treo 750 offers that makes it truly unique.

Let’s start with the compact design that the folks at Palm were really aggressive about. It stands short at 11.2.9mm x 59.3mm x 21.3mm, and weighs about 154g. The dimensions are quite appealing, especially since we're talking about a Windows Mobile device. For practical purposes, however, the phone is pretty bulky. You are going to have to get used to that bulge in your pocket.

The phone features a QWERTY keypad, which surprisingly doesn’t take up a lot of space. Even though the keys are closely bunched together, the surface is well rounded, so you don’t end up hitting the wrong keys. If you like to keep long nails, however, you may need to reconsider your fashion sense!

Just above the keypad you will find the start button, call and cancel keys, the five-way navigation pad and the open keys. The screen failed to excite me. True, it’s one of the most responsive touchscreens I have seen bundled with Windows Mobile. Yet it displays only up to 65k (16-bit color) at a resolution of 240 x 240.

If there's one thing I appreciate about this phone, it’s got to be the fact that you don’t really need to use the touch feature all the time; least of all when you are messaging or taking notes. All the functions can be accessed from the keypad alone.

Excellent value for the price.

I've been a treo user since the beginning. This is one of the more stable ones. Picture quality is good. Great for work, get all my emails, contacts and calendar from syncing through exchange.

This is an excellent phone. Palm took their excellent phone design and install Windows mobile on it. I'm one of those that like windows mobile more than the Plam OS. One advantage is that active sync syncs better than Versa Mail.

This is a great product from Treo, hads Windows Mobile O/S and has a memory capacity of 128MB. I bought this phone and its unlocked !! cool. This is a PDA Phone so that means you can do most of you personal stuff like surfing on the net, MS Word, diary,... and lots of more cool stuffs..

That's a great picture review, especially the comparison shots

Thanks for the review. It will be interesting to see if Palm can break into the European market with this one.

Great pictures.. ......

I will be interested to see if you have found whether over the next few days you get:-

- missed calls
- soft resets
- poor radio reception

Can anyone let me know abt the phone and speakerphone volume? On my JAM the volume of the phone is the absolute xxx I have ever heard.
The speakerphone is useless.
I want something that is loud enough to hear in noisy situations.
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Samsung SGH i320 - the Treo does have much higher overall volume.