On this page you will find some information about the PalmOne Treo 650.
This smartphone integrates a complete PalmOS pda with a
quadband GSM cellular phone. Now one can access all contacts and appointments with one device and
placing calls at the same time. After having had quite some Palms I was now able to drop my formerly
needed separate cellular phone.
To be specific I replaced my Palm Tungsten T3 and my SonyEricsson T610. The size of the Treo 650 is
about in the middle of both formerly used devices.
Positive
- Everything in one device
- Quadband cellular phone for GSM 850/900/1800/1900 Mhz
- Exchangable battery
Negative
- Bluetooth not implemented very extensively
- Only Bluetooth 1.1
- SAP not availably (usage of external antenna in car kits not supported)
- A2DP may only be added with commercial software (useage of Bluetooth stereo headphones)
- No download of phonebook from car kit possible
- Antenna might be inconvenient
- Without additional software
PrefDoctor all prefs might get lost from time to time.
I also bougth a pair of Jabra BT620s
Bluetooth stereo headphones with A2DP
and can now listen to music wirelessly.
As the Treo 650 does not support A2DP
by default I use Softick Audio Gateway. To
play mp3's every software may be used. PocketTunes and AeroPlayer are very
comfortable as they also support AVRCP
enabling the user to control the programs with the headphone's control keys.
Besides listening to music one can also place calls with the BT620s. When someone calls
the music stops automatically and one can talk into the nearly invisible microphone.
For the Treo 650 and its predecessors I bought a 2 GB SD-CARD. As my digital camera Canon Digital Rebel XT has a CF-CARD slot and
I didn't want to have numerous memory card systems I bought a SD -> CF adapter Panasonic BN-SDCF1E. Sounds
banal but there are not many adapters which are small enough to fit into the camera. Now I can
exchange the SD-CARDs between camera and Treo 650 e.g. while on vacation. There is a similar adapter
from Minolta but it's somehow more expensive.
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