Palm Treo 750 Smartphone (AT&T)

First off, this is a great deal since it is 300 through cingular and if you get in at the right time you can actually get this phone for 75 like I did. At first I was a bit upset because I thought that it would take over a month for me to get the phone, but I ended up receiving it the next week. I had a little trouble setting it up, but just call cingular and they'll help you out. The phone is great, it has so many applications and it runs very quickly. If you want to use the media side of it, definitely get a memory card, which happen to be on a major sale on here right now. I bought a 2 gig for $25 and now I can put like 500 songs on it which is awesome. Battery life is a little frustrating but that is only because I am online or on AIM all the time, it runs out by 9ish pm when I start using it at 7 in the morning. E-mail works great, there are a lot of great applications. Overall I am very happy with this purchase and reccomend it to anyone.

There are numerous advantages to this phone, simply check with all the other feedbacks... My problem started about 2 months after I bought the phone, the touch screen just does not work after one touch.

I tried numerous ways to reset the phone including dropping it on the concrete floor and still is a 'one touch' wonder. Palm tech support is slower than snails running from salt. I did find a way to bring my 'one touch' wonder back to may be a 'five minut' touch wonder... by taking out the battery over a lengthy period (at least over night) then I could use the touch screen for about 5 or 10 minutes or so...

Oh, I googled "palm 750 touch screen problem" and found other users also experience the same issue.

I am still awaiting instruction back from Palm about how they plan to blame this on my usage.

Also, the second problem I have is when people call me, the phone reacts slowly, just like a snail... frequently when I answer, the caller would have been sent to the voice mail. Buy this phone only if you have no friends and your mother-in-law is the only caller!! It would be great in that event!!

In January I traded in my Blackberry for a Treo 750 purely for the Activesync feature and the ability to sync the phone without having to connect to a desktop.

The pro's to this phone are one: Activesync to Exchange. It works great and has never failed me.

The con's are too numerous to mention.

The phone has pathetic battery life, admittedly I spend the day on my phone so I carry three batteries to get through a 12 hour day.

The touch screen has two locking features to stop you from dialing someone, the first is a numeric lock and the second requires that you push the center button to unlock, somehow the phone still manages to dial numbers when in its holster.

Does not switch to the G network when in a g area. This may be an ATT issue but the phone will not switch to the G mode when you re-enter a G coverage area, rebooting the phone brings it back to G but that is the only way to get it on the G Networks.

The phone crashes as many as 14 times a day requiring a reboot either soft or hard. This may include not be able to hang up from a call or as has been happening today a crash error message being sent from the phone when it crashes with no explanation. ATT's response to this is, do a hard reboot. That is great done that six times today so far and still having the same issue.

I would expect that this may be an individual hardware issue but no, this is the third handset that I have received from ATT. On the first the touch sensitive screen stopped working after a week and the phone would require a hard reboot to get it working.

On the second handset the phone would randomly reboot itself, this resolved all the issues I was having including hanging up during calls. ATT's great solution was replace the battery. Did that twice before they replaced the handset.

Number 3 is doing a combination of the three, some days it won't hang up from a call unless you do a soft reboot or remove and replace the batteries, other days it won't allow access to the touch screen after a call and other days it reboots itself.

The final issue to be aware of is the bluetooth, it works great most of the time, however dont try to dial a call after you hang up from a call. Wait a few seconds as if you dont the phone will drop the bluetooth headset. Recently this has no longer been an issue as I have to remove the battery after every call to hang up which forces a reboot.

Treo 750 Sucks. Save your money and either buy a Blackberry or another Smartphone.


Very cool. I just picked this up from Verizon. Streams radio, great phone, organizer and everything your computer does. It is a very cool device. A little heavy but not much more then my old cell phone. You can get caught up for over an hour playing with it.

This phone is amazing, that said, there are 1 or 2 small issues that I can live with. Hence the need for 4 1/2 stars. I talk about the issues at the bottom--so scroll down if you're not interested in what I liked about the phone.

I've had this phone 2 months now and I bought it because, much to my detriment, I am a gadget nut...What can I say, I love electronics--I was afraid it would not organize my life but it has--it is easy to use and simple to install software onto. Most PDA-type things, I never use, this one, I do--probably because since its a phone, I use it anyway. I actually even have a mac--I make use of a program called Missing Sync that allows it to link to just about all of my mac programs--iPhoto, iTunes, Entourage.

This is a really nice phone--the speakerphone is excellent, I also notice that it almost always has signal, not only that, but unlike most cell phones that try and fail to make a call with only 1 bar of signal, this one can make a phone call--so I would say its a very good phone. The phonebook is easily accessible and utilized.

Someone said it was hard to read the screen in the daytime--I don't know where that's coming from--I have tried to find an angle where its hard to read in direct sunlight, and I haven't...I'm in the Army, a lot of the time when I take a call or use the PDA side of this phone, its outside--no problems. I even have the brightness turned down a little and its fine. Amazing actually--most LCD screens are difficult to read in sunlight.

All that said, battery life is relatively short--but not as short as other reviewers have implied. Like I said, I'm in the military, and a lot of time, when out in the field, I can't charge the phone--I've gotten it to last 2 days, making frequent calls--2 days isn't a long time, but its certainly better than other reviewers are saying. I don't need to plug this into my computer when I'm stationary, or into my car--it doesn't need to be plugged in every place you can--I charge mine every night and have had no problems yet. I also have some minor problems with the operating system--don't get me wrong, I had a Palm TX for a while and hated Palm OS--this is much better than Palm OS. These are little nit-picking problems: The alarm program is useless, and sometimes, even though I have it set to disable the touchscreen when making a call, it activates the clock. Very irritating.

Over all, its by far the best phone I've ever had--and I've had many. I'm now hooked on SmartPhones.

product is good, amazon bad!

amazon needs a better help desk!

can you believe that I figured out the problem?

where is my thanks?

Great price! But I returned it for a full refund.

1. The phone didn't work. Wasn't set up properly. Amazon said that they could fix it -- in 3 to 5 business days.

2. I have been using Palm & Treo products for a long, long time. I really like the "Palm Desktop". The Treo 750 is a Windows Mobile Device that syncs to Outlook. I thought that it might be time to bite the bullet and convert. The CD came with Outlook 2000 which really sucks. Prices for Outlook 2003 (which, IMHO, is workable) added another $99. Cutting to the chase: I couldn't convert my existing Palm Desktop data; the process trashed my existing Palm installation; and it took over 4 hours to get things back to where they were before the Treo 750 arrived.

I bought this phone for my wife. She hated the bulky PDA or phone like mine. However, with this one, she loves it. the functionalities are great, the responses from the phone are quick. The email and internet are working fine without funky delay. Best of all, very steady, the phone has not needed for any reboot or reset since it is up and running (about a month now and knock on the wood). The overall experience from my wife is just fabulous. I set the the time interval for 45 minutes for emails retrieval. The battery is still 89% full by the end of the day. I think I will get this phone as well when my contract is up.



Bought this to replace my three-year-old cell phone and an ancient but still working Palm IIIc. My observations after 30 days of ownership:

1. Setup is time consuming but unavoidable. Patience is required. I've had a couple of questions that I asked Cingular, only to be forwarded to Palm, only to be forwarded to Microsoft, then back to Cingular. It seems no Customer Service department has really mastered this unit.

2. Have to do a soft reset every once in a while. The unit turns off the sound by itself and the only way I've found to fix it is to do a soft reset.

3. I'm not crazy about Microsoft Outlook's calendar compared to Palm's. I miss several Palm features, like the "Go to" and the "Today" buttons. Outlook's calendar just isn't as easy to manuever as Palm's.

4. Phone listening volume is low, especially when the unit is in a protective case, which puts it a little further from your ear.

5. Love the Bluetooth option. It's new to me and it's just great.

6. Love being able to press a picture to make a call. We have five kids; I have each kid's picture linked to their phone number. Even my technology-challenged husband can call them by simply pressing their picture.

7. This phone talks! A female voice announces who is calling and when your next appointment is. The first time she spoke it about scared me to death. The voice reminds me of the computer on Star Trek--but not as clear. However, after getting used to her accent, she is intelligible, which means the computer is translating my written input into spoken words--amazing!

8. The Internet connection has limited use for me. I don't need email on the run and I could live without this and the extra monthly cost. Most traditional Internet web sites take much too long to load and display too small a portion of the page to be useful. It is nice to check the weather or get directions on the go.

9. Can't imagine watching a movie or any complex video on this tiny screen. What's the point?

10. Splurged on a sweet little Vaja leather case that is wonderful. Very expensive, but a terrific luxury.

11. Amazon's prices were the best BY FAR on this product! Saved over $300 off my local retail Cingular dealer.

12. Best part: I no longer have to carry a PDA and a cell phone! They are one and the same!

13. Conclusion: this phone is very smart and fun to use, although it comes with a big learning curve. The low volume issue could be a problem for someone with bad hearing.

Recently decided to purchase the Treo 750, but after ordering Amazon sends shipping info and it won't arrive for about a month and a half! I cancelled and went to Cingular and purchased for a lesser price and had it in my hands immediately. Sad....

I have a 650 with a cell number that has been with me for over 10 years. Perhaps blinded by this incredibly good price, I thought my fulfilled contract (I am on month to month now) meant I could qualify for a "new account" and keep my number. No such luck. After wasting a few hours dealing with Cingular and then someone in India on behalf of Wirefly, I had to return it. It is ironic that someone who has never had a cell phone can get a price 75% lower than a loyal 13 year customer! I will take the next carrier that offers a reasonable price on a 700 even though I would prefer the 750.

I ordered this phone on 3/28/07. It shipped via FEDEX on 3/29/07 to my office with an indicated delivery of 3/2/07. The package sat on the FEDEX truck for three days before they attempted to deliver it at 8pm to an adjacent business and then left it without the package being signed for. This was after I'd already called FEDEX to refuse delivery of the package because it was too late in arriving. FEDEX's response for it sitting three days on the delivery truck was that the driver was overloaded. For the $100 difference in price it was less hassle to just go to the local Cingular store.

The craftsmanship of the phone is very top notch. I like the way it feels in my hands. It feels very solid. I would like to have an option for a little strap at least. It ship with no option for securing it to anything.The screen is bright and large and does not seem to scratch easy.

I find that the Windows Mobile OS is overly simple to use. This is very nice when setting up and using the internet and email but frustrating for all of the other programs and phone settings. Additionally I have problems with the phone opening unwanted windows for settings and apps that I did not intentionally open. Not sure if my phone is buggy or if the interface is just set up to open clock settings and appointment windows on its own. The text messaging interface works fine though as does the email.

Treo 750, one of the best and coolest phone. I am in love with this phone. Because of Windows OS, it is very easy to use and understand functions. Slim and light weight. Love the touch screen function.

I ordered this phone on Sunday evening and got it on Wednesday, Amazon offers two day free shipping on all phones.

Also I ordered two phones (Family plan), there was some problem in other phone, I requested the replacement and Amazon FIRST sent me the replacement of that phone through FREE 1 day shipping and they gave me 30 days to return problem phone. I am so impressed with Amazon's service.

I work for an University and my contract was due 2 months ago. I decided to get this phone because my PDA was already old and I needed something that would be efficient. I got this smartphone almost 2 months ago and I just have good things to say about it. First, it is not as heavy as the last model (650) and also looks really cool. Second, the interface is pretty easy to use and figure it out. The phone is Microsoft OS based (I used a palm device before) so getting use to it took me a couple of days but not really a big issue. The battery works really well and, in spite of other reviews, the life have been pretty great, even when compared with my last phone (a motorola).

In general, I thinks is a pretty good buy and you cannot beat the price when Cingular sells it for way more money than Amazon. I'll definetively will buy from this website again.

I bought my Treo 750v a couple of days ago. I got really impressed with its features and had none of the problems already reported, like short time lived batery.
The only problem I am facing is with setting my voice mail.
The icon shown in the today page does not accept any number I will to attach to it. As a result, I was forced to create a new speed dial icon with my voice mail number.
I really hope this is a problem to be fixed soon by Palm with a downloadable file because, except for this problem, Treo 750 is really great.

I thought I would post my experience with orderig this phone through amazon. I had many doubts, so I hope this helps a few people out.

Here we go:

I was a verizon customer, with an expired contract. I wanted this phone, so I switched to cingular.

I also wanted to keep my number, but I wanted this phone more than I wanted my number, so I ordered it knowing I might not be able to keep my verizon number. It turns out I WAS ABLE TO KEEP MY VERIZON NUMBER. It is true this phone comes "activated" and they even sent me my new cingular number in an email before I get the phone in the mail. As soon as I got this email informing me of my new number, I called cingular, explained the situation, and there were able to assign me my old verizon number. They also said Amazon will NOT charge me to do this. Things were looking good.

I anxiously watched the tracking information and I was pretty upset because it didn't update for three days. On the 17th of feb, I ordered the phone. On the 20th it said USPS was notified of a package, but hasn't got it yet. On the 23rd, it updated and said my phone was in my city on the truck. So the tracking is pretty lame, but in the end, my phone came in the mail two days BEFORE the expected arrival date, another bonus.

I opened it up, popped in the sim card, and within 10 minutes, I was able to make calls. Accessing the internet is another story. I called tech support and they were really nice. We tired everything known, and after an hour I was told to take it in and get a new sim card. Great.

I took it into cingular, and they worked on it for about an hour. It would work with the sim card from the store managers cell phone, but not with mine. We tried two new sim cards, and nothing. Finally, another person came to the rescue, recognized that it wasn't authorized somewhere in the system. We had to call a special data technical service and they activated it. It now works great. So after about three hours, I had my phone and I was ready to go. First thing I did was install google maps, everything worked great. I don't know if the problem was becasue I got it from Amazon, but it eventually got fixed and the phone works flawlessly.

I have never had a treo before, but I really like this phone. The camera is weak, but everything else is very functional. I would give this phone 5 stars except..............

Next up, email. The push email client was very easy to setup. The problem is that it drains the battery life like crazy. It is essentially useless becauase the battery only lasts about 8hrs with minimal use (10 minutes, internet, 20 minutes talk time, 10 minutes playing with the contacts/scheduler) This won't even get you through the day. If you leave your house at 8am, your phone is dead at 4pm. Not cool.

I did some searching, and it turns out the push email client drains the battery because it is constantly connected and sending information back and forth. Disabling this feature should increase battery life tremendously. Apparently the 8125 runs the same program without a problem, and because this is such an issue, they will come up with some kind of software patch.

I am going to charge the phone tonight, turn off push email, and see if it makes any difference....i will update with results.

UPDATE: Sorry about not updating, I forgot because my treo's battery is absolutely fine now. It turns out many people jump the gun and freak out about the battery life during the first week.

After using it for a week and barely getting through an eight hour day, it seems the battery gets stronger and stronger. I also read to keep it plugged into the charger whenever you get the chance. It seems letting the battery run dry and then charging it is actually worse, so keep it charging as much as possible.

After a week or two, I was able to get 24hours easily without charging. Just last night, I noticed my battery was about to die, but that was because I hadn't charge my phone in about 40 hours!

So, bottom line: The battery will suck for the first couple of weeks, but stick with it and you will end up with a pretty sweet phone.

I am very satisfied with my choice to purchase my phone and phone plan through Amazon. We saved $500 on just our phones by going through Amazon. Our products were received 2 days ago. They were up and running that same day. I spent most of the day speaking with Cingular & Palm, learning this extreme phone and everything it can do. My only disappointment is finding out my particular email provider, Bellsouth/At&t, the way it receives email, Pop3, does not allow me to receive my emails into my Outlook files in my phone. I had to set up a separate file. It really isn't too big of a deal, because I do not want to have a bunch of emails stored on my phone, anyways. I can still send/receive/save/create, but just not into my same Outlook folder I have on my notebook. It will sinc up and stay up to date.

I needed to add something to my phone plan and I was within the guidelines of my contract; therefore did not incur any charges with Amazon. In fact, I found out through the representative, I could reduce my phone plan all the way down to a 39.99 plan without breaching the contract. (I won't do that because we need a large family plan, but atleast, I know I can if need be.)

If you are looking into purchasing this type of phone, please don't expect to have everything run perfectly. There is work to be done. Lots of hours on the phone with representatives, because every person has different needs and the phones are set up in a general use. For instance, I want to have my phone sinc with my computer via Bluetooth instead of USB. For this to happen, I had to call Palm and have them walk me through the steps, which took a full hour. I will be able to set my husbands phone up faster now that I've gone through the steps, but it does take patience and time.

If you need full access to the internet and maybe 1000 txt, IM, and photo messages are sufficient, I would suggest the Amazon 49.99 plan with Cingular and adding the teathering capability to use your phone as a modem with your computer for an additional $10 with Cingular. (Amazon does not offer teathering plans). This information took all day for me to understand. I thought I would save someone else the time.


I have 90 days of free support with Palm on the use of this phone, so I better get busy learning about it.

Thanks

I received this phone yesterday. I purchased a new line of service, with a new phone number. The instructions for activation say to pop in the SIM card and battery and within 15 minutes you'll receive a text message with your new wireless number that will be used to activate the phone. It's 32 hours later and I've yet to receive the message. So I have the phone but no wireless activities available to me whatsoever.

Just to clarify, rather than rate the phone, since I just got it today. I transferred my old number from my Cingular Razor to my new Cingular Treo 750 today with no problem.

I was ordering a Treo 750 online via Amazone a few nights ago, got to practically the final screen to okay the purchase. I suddenly realized I had not ever been asked what my current mobile number is. Backed up, started to try to figure this out: online info for Amazone explains that Cingular currently "not capable of porting" one's current number to a newly purchased phone. That is if you order through them, just be ready to start using a new number. I decided to wait and not order just yet.

Coming from a Cingular 8125 I must say that this phone is much much better. I evaluated the 8525 as an upgrade to the 8125 but it provided minimal upgrades and is really held back by its processor (the camera is still jerky, apps still take awhile to start/stop). BUT, the Palm is snappy as ever... the camera, even though its a 1.3MP is fast and actually usable. The lack of WiFi is a little disappointing but 3G speeds make up for it. I'm only getting 384kbps in a 3G coverage zone but an HSDPA upgrade is supposed to be forthcoming (as of Jan 30, 2007) which will bring the phone to 700+kbps. My sole complaint is battery life but even still its not enough to knock this phone down from a five star rating.

Now, when can I get a built-in GPS?!

I liked the phone.Its display is excellent , e-mail push is better,faster browsing, excellent voice quality, battery is much better than many of other smartphones(smartphone take more power than regular phone).I would say nice small handheld computer(enough computing power).Phone is very stable ( didn't switch off as it happened with my other smartphones and didn't drop any call).
I don't have any complaint except I needed to change my service to cingular which I am not sure if would be stable as if I may move out to different state.

I got my Treo 750 this week as a replacement for a Blackberry 8700c, which I really liked. My company is heading away from BB and towards Windows Mobile technology, so here I am.

I should say, too, that I've had pretty much every flavor of BB ever made, as well as an Ipaq, Treo 650, Cingular 8125 and many others. I had concluded that for a business user who needs 100% reliable e-mail, and uses the Internet and text messaging a fair amount, the BB 8700 was by far the most reliable way for me.

So as I make the transition from 8700 to 750, here is my list (not too long at this point) of likes and dislikes:

1. The Treo 750 comes new in the box without a holster, belt clip or carrying case of any kind. Unless you want to carry it in your pocket, automatically add $30 to the cost of the phone. Thanks, Cingular.

2. Battery life is not good on the 750. I send and receive well over 100 e-mail messages a day, and my phone usage and Internet use varies. I could go two days without charging my BB, and even given my usage patterns, seldom ran out of battery power.

Yesterday I flew from Chicago to Los Angeles and caught a connecting flight to Palm Springs. The point is, I had the 750 turned off for at least five hours during the day. I took it off the charger at about 6 a.m. Chicago time yesterday morning, and, even after being turned off for five hours, by 6 p.m. Chicago time yesterday afternoon the battery was almost dead.

Buying a spare battery ($30 to $50) seems like a decent solution, but devices that charge the battery only (while it's not on the phone) are hard to find for this phone, and will cost around $50. So the logistics of getting two batteries recharged over night are not that simple - primarily because if you don't have a phone-independent battery charger, you will have to change the battery in the phone every day in order to get two batteries charged. And if you forget to charge the second one, you have potential problems the next day.

As an alternative, you can keep the phone tethered to your computer or on the AC charger (have to have one or the other with you at all times) during the day, and/or buy a car charger, about $20 (if you'll be in the car). But if you're just out and about, battery life will be a significant issue for many.

3. The display is pretty good. But brightness and readability of the screen while outside is an issue. Anyone who's had a BB 8700 knows how easy it is to read that screen outside. The Treo 750 takes a big step backward by comparison.

4. Push e-mail reliability. For phones other than BBs, my company uses Good technology for interfacing with Outlook. Getting e-mail on my previous phones (Treo 650, Cingular 8125, etc.) that used Good Link was not reliable - I constantly had to use the "send/receive now" function to make sure my e-mail was up to date.

So far so good with the 750. I have gotten my e-mails reliably so far - it seems as good as my 8700.

5. Windows Mobile OS. One frequent complaint I hear about with Windows Mobile phones is that they lock up and need to be reset (soft or hard) frequently. Again, so far, so good for the 750. I did reset it yesterday because it went totally mute on me - no beeps, no notification sounds, no ringer on the phone! And no, I did not accidentally set the ringer switch to silent. After I reset it, all the sounds worked again. It's too early to tell whether this will be a persistent problem.

That's about all that comes to mind right now. I hope this helps anyone make up their mind about moving to this phone, especially if you would be leaving a BB 8700 behind.

So far, my regrets are minor, and I plan on learning to love this phone once I figure out how to deal with the battery problem. Good luck with yours.

This phone is by far the best looking windows phone out there.
an enjoyable experience to use.

I order the phone on the 19 of jan and I called or had Amazon call me and was told that I well not recieve the phone unit sometime in March. So I just want to know if anyone had signed up for a 2 year contact but no phone.



This phone does not have Java 2 Micro Edition, so Google Maps and the Gmail app will not work on it. This is because it has Windows Mobile rather than PalmOS or Symbian. This is similar to the BlackJack in that respect.

Other than the setbacks of the Windows Mobile OS, it's a fine product. Great 3G radio (lower network latency than the BlackJack), battery life good, decent display.

The nearest competitor will likely be the Blackberry 8800, soon to be launched, which will also have a 3G radio but will have the Blackberry OS (with J2ME support).

After using the Pearl and other phone. Palm 750 is the best phone so far. All my friends have got one now and the phone is just very quick. It may not be the smallest phone, but who said the smallest is the best? In a phone you can only be so small before it starts working against you... I dont want a phone, i want a hand held computer that small enought to be used as a phone.. The PALM 750 is It...