Treo 750... Have Phone Will Travel

The new Treo 750 is out and Palm keeps making these things better and better. I love the fact that they have eliminated the stubby antenna, and they have packed this with the tools you need to literally do business around the world.

Palm is saying the 750 meshes the Windows Mobile platform with the "ease" of Palm enhancements... with an international network. Sounds excellent to me - what could be better? They say it feels "great in your hand" due to a "new soft-touch finish." Sounds even better.

One of the things I like about smart phones is that they are literally a computer that can fit in the palm (no pun intended), of your hand. Better yet, they have instant on and instant off functionality - no booting up or down required. Better yet, it eliminates your mobile phone and allows you to work from anywhere you'd like to work. So what's different about the Treo 750 that wasn't available in the Treo 700 series of units or the newer BlackBerry phones or any other smart phone for that matter? Let's take a look.

First and perhaps foremost, the Treo 750 is able to function as a phone while you perform other tasks such as sending an email, text messaging a co-worker or surfing for information on the Internet. This is not the case with my BlackBerry 8700 smartphone. If I'm on a call, email traffic stops. If I'm surfing the web, phone traffic stops. If you're a power user on email and on the phone then not being able to multitask between Internet and phone functions will slow you down.

The Treo 750 solves that challenge. You can talk and transmit data at the same time on the Cingular network. This is a huge feature.

The productivity applications that come with the Treo 750 really work... in other words you can not only view files - you can create and edit them. The Motorola Q let's you view Word, Excel and PowerPoint files but you cannot create or edit. Lame.

There are a ton of other great features of this phone. It's only available at Cingular (which bugs the heck out of me), but will roll out to other carriers before you know it.

Check it out and get a feel for the phone and see if it might be your next productivity tool.

TK