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British press slams Treo 750v smartphone October 12, 2006 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Fat and Wi-Fi-less! While voluptuous design may be forgivable, lack of Wi-Fi makes it a flop. Don't buy it! Don't buy Treo 750v! Update: after reconsideration we must admit that Wi-Fi is not a "must-have" feature for everybody and generally Palm Treo 750v is a very impressive and very good phone and certainly this phone in particular and Palm Inc in general will bring Windows Mobile phones on a wholly new level! For a big fan of Palm's elegant operating system, it feels odd to handle a device sporting the Palm logo that runs the Windows Mobile operating system. Yet with the 750v, Palm has kept much of the design and styling of its Treo series of PDAs and substituted its own OS for a Windows one (a sad but inevitable move) and in theory should have a winner on its hands. Alas the 750v, available for the time being exclusively from Vodafone, falls a little short of the mark. Sure, it boasts the Treo trademarks of very usable QWERTY keyboard and an intuitive stylus-based interface. It also has 3G compatibility, which enables its web browser to grab pages quickly, and sports an easy-to-use home screen. There are a variety of push email solutions available for the device too. But it loses points for the absence of Wi-Fi (an inexplicable omission), a chunky design that's a world away from the slim lines of the BlackBerry Pearl, and a rather poor quality 1.3 megapixel camera. Overall the 750v is a reasonable handset, but you would have thought that the trio (Palm, Microsoft, and Vodafone) would capable of something more exciting than this. Source: The Guardian.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 19 Comments ]
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