Palm Treo 650 Smartphone

Guide price: £399.00

Feature-packed smartphone. This is the ideal mobile email expert. It combines easy-to-set-up, wireless email with a compact GSM//GPRS/EDGE world phone and a Palm OS organiser. A nice finger friendly QWERTY keyboard and the ability to send and receive emails and SMS//MMS messages wirelessly. You can view email attachments, including photos and native Word, Excel and Powerpoint files on its large 3.5" hi-resolution TFT screen and connect to other wireless devices with Bluetooth.
The phone has a fully featured organiser, with Calendar, Tasks and Memos and it allows you to organise your business life and personal life all in one place. Because it can also create and edit Word files it is the perfect business tool. The camera is a 1.0 megapixel with the lens on the back, that can also record video and because it has expandable memory through a SD card slot, lots of photos and video can be safely stored. The phone has 32MB of internal flash memory, which means that even if the battery is left uncharged the data on it will not be lost (unlike earlier Palm PDAs!) The phone has all the abilities you would expect, with it being Quad band, and having speed dialling, polyphonic ringtones, vibrate alert and 6-way conference calling. It plays mp3 rather well also! and comes with 'Real Player' installed, really the only thing missing is WiFi!

Hilary's conclusion: Small but perfectly formed and incredibly able - it will be your constant companion.

Battery life: Up to 8 days

Card slot SD (up to 2GB supported)

Network: Sim free/Vodaphone,Orange and T-Mobile

Built-in Software:

Software Included on Device or CD-ROM
• Phone
• Contacts
• Calendar
• Messaging
• Media
• Camera
• Camcorder
• Web Browser
• RealPlayer
• Tasks
• Memos
• Calculator
• World Clock
• HotSync® Manager
• PalmOne™ Installation Software
• link to Microsoft Outlook (Windows only)
• DataViz® Documents To Go® 7
• AudiblePlayer
• Palm™ eReader
• Handmark PocketExpress (trial version)
• Zap! 2016
• Handmark Solitaire

System requirements
Windows
•Windows 2000 or XP (later versions may also be supported) with USB port (USB HotSync® cable included)
• CD-ROM drive

Macintosh
• Mac OS 10.2-10.3 (later versions may also be supported) with USB port (USB HotSync® cable included)
• CD-ROM drive

I have had this phone for 3 weeks now and I would not be without it!
There are some very reasonably priced programmes for it that really Palm should bundle with it! These include a free programme called'Qset' which allows you to improve the quality of the camera, (by setting the jpeg compression to less severe) and a programme called 'TMP' which allows you to see a five day view of appointments and tasks and is great because it can also remind you with an alarm.

The Treo Bluetooth headset is also well worth getting and if you look out for the "Special Limited Edition" this is bundled with the phone and represents a big saving.