PalmOne's Treo 650: Hybrid Phones Keep Getting Smarter

The new Palm Treo 650 from PalmOne is so good-looking, it's almost stunning. It hurts ones eyes just looking at it. Reviewer from the Washington Post seems to be completely charmed by the Treo 650 smartphone.





From the review:

When I showed PalmOne's new Treo 650 to a co-worker who had just bought the Treo 600, my now-jealous colleague paid this new model one of the highest compliments imaginable: a two-word obscenity we can't print.

Treo smartphones seem to have that kind of effect on people. Maybe it's because these useful hybrids of organizer and cell phone remind people of a Star Trek communicator. Or maybe it's just because customers don't want to carry around separate organizers, cell phones, MP3 players and digital cameras. A device that does all those functions, even if it doesn't perform all of them very well, offers the promise of a far less cluttered pocket or purse.

Since the Treo 180 debuted in late 2001, its developers -- first Handspring, then PalmOne -- have steadily worked toward that goal. Last fall, the Treo 600 got the basics right, fusing a phone, organizer, low-resolution digital camera and digital-music playback capability in a package not much bigger than most cell phones. Now the 650, available only through Sprint PCS at the moment, refines the formula still further.

By Rob Pegoraro, The Washington Post
Read the full article at The Washington Post

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