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Palm Treo 750 Smartphone (AT&T) | 
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Category: Wireless
List Price: $599.99
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Rating:  57 reviews
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Color: Blue
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Battery Type: Lithium Ion
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Model: 750
UPC: 805931025739
EAN: 0805931019318
ASIN: B000KEP1RI
Release Date: November 20, 2006
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Palm Treo 750 boasts all the legendary features of the previous Treo smartphones, plus a whole lot more. Now with WCDMA 3G data capabilities, stereo Bluetooth, and an internal antenna, the 750 puts Palm once again on the cutting edge of smartphone technology. With features like the Windows Mobile 5 operating system, a QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a miniSD memory card slot, and voice control, simply put, the 750 is the ultimate mobile office companion, and the perfect complement to Cingular Wireless service. Design
Under the hood, the Treo 750 features the Windows Mobile 5 operating system and 60 MB of internal memory. The design retains the same popular form factor and QWERTY keyboard as other Treo phones, but with a few subtle, yet significant, changes. The external antenna has been tucked away, and the unit's camera has been dramatically upgraded to 1.3 megapixels. The 750 has been on a diet too--weighing in at only 5.40 ounces, the 750 is one of the lightest Treo phones ever released. On top of the unit you'll find an expansion slot for SD and MMC-based memory cards, and there's also an infrared port here for line-of-sight data transfers, as well as a handy switch for turning off the phone's ringer. Below the amazingly clear 240 x 240 color touch screen, you'll find a five-way navigator that controls most of the phone's menus and operating system functions, while quick application buttons on either side of the navigator will get you to your favorite applications in a snap. The left side of the unit features a volume up/down toggle plus a handy user-customizable button that can be assigned to any phone or PDA function. The rear of the Treo 750 houses a loudspeaker, as well as the camera unit. A touch-screen stylus can be tucked away on the right side of the phone. Meanwhile, a combined charging, data, and accessory attachment port is housed on the bottom of the unit, as is a standard 2.5 mm stereo headset jack. Calling and PDA Features
All of the Treo 750's phone and PDA functions are designed to provide an integrated, seamless experience. For instance, you can type in the name or initials of a contact on the keypad to dial them. Or, use the touch-screen and stylus to copy information from an email and quickly paste it into another email or text message. You can even use Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile, a feature that combines email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes into a single application. Staying productive on the road is made possible by the Microsoft Office Mobile suite, which includes Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile. Meanwhile, the File Explorer application makes it easy to browse the files on your Treo 750. All of the latest phone features folks expect are built-in, too, like a handsfree speakerphone, polyphonic ringtones, a vibrate mode and picture caller ID. The 750 comes stock with unique ringtones built right into the unit, and more ringtones can be downloaded from Cingular Wireless' MEdia Net service. The capacity of the unit's address book is only limited by the amount of internal and expansion memory available. Use the Treo 750's Bluetooth capability to wirelessly sync your contacts with your PC. Headsets, car kits and other wireless peripherals can also be paired with the unit via Bluetooth. The unit's memory expansion slot allows you to transfer music, photos, and video from your desktop. Or, use it to load additional games and applications. Messaging, Internet, and Entertainment
The device fully supports MMS messaging for rapid exchange of pictures, text and video via Cingular's instant messaging system. The Treo 750's Web browser supports full-size web pages, and you can enter secure pages with 128-bit SSL encryption. POP3 email accounts provided by SBC, BellSouth, Yahoo, Earthlink, Comcast and AT&T Worldnet are all compatible with the 750's email client application. IMAP and Exchange-based email systems are also supported, and you can view photos, HTML, Word, Excel and PowerPoint attachments. With WCDMA/UMTS support built right into the phone, you'll be streaming and downloading at speeds so fast your head will spin. The 750 also sports an airplane mode, which allows you to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight. Vital Statistics
The Palm Treo 750 weighs 5.40 ounces and measures 4.37 x 2.28 x 0.87 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.5 hours of digital talk time, and up to 240 hours of digital standby time. It features UMTS with HSDPA capability and runs on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 850/1900/2100 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.
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 Review for the Palm 750 and sevice with Cincular & Amazon February 17, 2007
Mindi L. Mende (Jacksonville, FL)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
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
DETAILED REVIEW BASED ON WINDOWS MOBILE 5 & 6! December 9, 2007
DejaLiyah (NY, USA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
FULL DETAIL Treo review with UPGRADE DETAILS!!!
I purchased the Treo 750 3 weeks ago. I ve upgraded to the Treo 750 for personal, not business use. I needed a phone that can hold all my contacts with more than just one phone number but more detailed information, and had a lot more computer functions. I am reviewing all the features first based on Windows Mobile 5- which is the software the phone comes with, and then the Windows Mobile 6 which I just installed [and WOW!] I now have the perfect phone!
To Upgrade your Treo to Windows Mobile 6, go to palm.com, it s on their home page.
I bought this through AT&T not Amazon, I did not want to risk any problems if the phone was damaged.
SIZE & FEEL:
I love the way this phone feels in my hand. I love the rubber texture and it feels smaller than it really is.
SCREEN
It s hard to see it in sunlight. But aren t they all? Otherwise I like it, size is good too.
BATTERY:
At first battery ran down very fast. If I left the house at 8am with 96%, by 7 pm it was already in the 40% and that is with some usage, push email not enabled, not playing music, but surfing the net a little. The booklet told me to charge as often as possible and not let it run down. I did that and it lasts a lot longer now. Sometimes 24 hours.
CONTACTS:
Has the following options for you to fill out: Picture, Company, Department, Job title, work tel, work fax, work address, home #, home address, mobile #, 3 IM, 3 emails, ringtone, webpage, office address, birthday, anniversary Category, Pager, Car Tel, and a lot more.
SPEED DIAL:
You can add speed dial to your Today screen which is your Treo Desktop or Finder . You can add up to 5 pictures and just by tapping them you are now dialing your best friend, or your parents. Have more than 5 important speed dials you want to add to the Today screen? You can add names below it of the other important contacts. In Windows Mobile 5, when you tap on a picture it takes a while for it to start dialing, the phone lagged a lot until I upgraded to Windows Mobile 6. All that has been fixed.
CALCULATOR: unfortunately I was really hoping for the full advanced calculator that came with the Treo 680 but the 750 comes with a basic calculator. So no cool conversions or EZ Tip like my Verizon phone the LG VX8300.
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Works well I set up my email and it works well. I have it set to send/receive manually so battery does not run down while it s checking for emails all day. But you can set it to check your emails every 5 min and so on K In WM6 you have about 15 options - every 5,10,15,30,60 min etc..
INTERNET
Speed is pretty good, definitely faster than my old phone (LG 8300). It uses 3G, HSDPA or Edge whichever is faster in the location you're in. In WM5, my phone only connected to 3G, with the WM6 upgrade it now finds all 3 connections. To copy something you found on the internet (a link or a paragraph) and you want to paste it into email or text message, select Menu/Copy and wherever you want to paste it, you must tap the pen and hold it for a second and an edit menu will pop up to paste. This took me 3 weeks to figure out so I m sharing it. Hitting MENU in SMS or Email will not have a Paste option.
CAMERA
Camera quality is alright at 1.3mp, it s nothing fancy. I cannot disable the stupid Shutter sound unless I mute the entire phone (button on top of the phone puts it on vibrate and camera sound is disabled) but I d like to disable just the shutter sound and keep my phone on volume. You can change the size of your photos and resolution. There is no flash which sucks!! But there is a zoom to 2x.
VIDEO
When I first tried to view youtube and nothing would play. I even installed updates. With the WM6 upgrade I can now watch youtube! Video quality good, screen is a little small, but you can put it on Full Screen so it looks a little better. Not as big as the iphone though. Also youtube doesn't have many videos to view that are mobile capable, but they're working on it.
PHONE CALLS
Whenever someone called me and I hit ANSWER, most of the time I had to say HELLO? Twice. People never heard me the first time, this was really annoying and many people complained about this. I also sometimes had to hit the button a few time before it'd finally answer. When phone was lying on my desk and someone sent me a text msg or called me, the phone would light up for 6 seconds before it would ring or receive the message. With the WM6 upgrade this issue is resolved and the phone responds very quickly, finally!
KEYBOARD
It's a little small for me, but within a week I adjusted well to the querty keyboard. My only complaint is the M button and the "." button. I always hit the dot instead of the M... But this MAY be to the fact that I don t have short nails...I had my husband type on this thing and he didn't have this issue. But the ladies with French tips may have trouble. You can also type on the screen keyboard by tapping it with your stylus but it s kinda small so I don t use it.
STORAGE:
I added the 2GB Mini SD card, I wanted more but read online threads and people had issues with their treo recognizing the card. So I bought the 2GB which most people said worked fine. I m sure though with the WM6 they fixed this issue so I ll try buying a 4GB card in the future. Copying music and files to it is very simple (from your computer), just drag and drop.
VOLUME
Call volume is good. Sometimes if you move the phone a little off your ear, you won't hear a thing. Speaker phone is loud and great. Music plays loud, happy with that. It's louder than my LG 8300.
TECHNICAL ISSUES
Phone froze once, had to take battery out to restart, this was in Windows Mobile 5. It never happened again.
NAVIGATION
I was misled at the AT&T store about the GPS navigation. I was told I have GPS in the phone and I can download the software. Unfortunately it will not work without a GPS receiver that you hook up to your car, and that costs about eight bucks. This sucks I might as well buy a nuvi! I have noticed that other phones they fixed this with newer models: the blackberry 8300 needed the hardware to work, and the 8310 does not, same goes for the Blackjack and Blackjack II. So I have a feeling the new Treo will have navigation and GPS built in and will no longer require an external receiver. Who knows? For some people it might be worth the wait this phone is already over a year old!
Active Sync
When you install the software and then plug in your Treo via USB to your computer it syncs all your Outlook contacts, AND your Yahoo contacts all together. Your Treo now has all your friends emails and everything. All your contacts on your phone are now in your outlook as well, since your CONTACTS are actually part of outlook. I actually liked this because it backed up all my contacts. If I lose my Treo or drop it in the pool all my contacts will still be on my computer. It also syncs all your reminders and appointments to your computer. When you upgrade to WM6, you can sync all your files as well, they will backup to your home computer. This is great! You can pick and choose what you want to sync every time you connect it, or not. Also syncs your Favorites in Internet Explorer.
TODAY SCREEN
You can set up and put anything you want on the today screen, and in your Start button. Put all your favorite program links and even upcoming calendar appointments will display on your today screen. You can change the theme colors as well, but they re limited. You got your baby blue, red, and a purplish blue. When you upgrade to WM6, you now have a green which is my favorite and it has more 3D shiny effect and looks new and cool.
GOOGLE MAPS-download
Again, will not work with GPS unless you got that receiver, but if you do have it, it will tell you where you are and you can select where you want to go (can look it up through contacts too), and say from: my gps location; To: home. It has Traffic option, and satellite view, so you can see your house and backyard with all the details pretty well. But you can still use it as you do on your home computer. When you upgrade to WM6, it does have a MY LOCATION option using some other new technology (which is not everywhere yet) and if you re in the hotspot it will pick up where you are.
MSN, & YAHOO! ON THE GO, GMAIL
Phone comes with msn Messenger and email. The others have to be installed. just open your internet browser, go to yahoo.com and click on download on the go. It installs very fast & easy.
ALARMS
I Had issues with this until I installed an alarm update and WM6 upgrade. The alarm wouldn't always go off in the morning. But now works fine. I wish I could pick an mp3 on my phone to play in the morning, but it only plays wave files and they have to be small file size to work.
File Browser
You can browse your files or hit Search if you cannot find a file (just like a computer)
Microsoft Office: comes with PDF viewer, Excel, & Word. I ve used Excel & Word. I ve emailed files from my desktop computer to my Treo and was able to view and edit these files with colors too. Fonts are limited, but when you upgrade to WM6, there is a whole font folder so I think you can install your own fonts. It also comes with Tasks, and Notes, which I use quite often for my Grocery lists and other things I need to do. If you upgrade to Windows Mobile 6, they throw in Powerpoint in as well!
GAMES
I like playing games on my phone especially on my one hour long train ride on the way to work. This phone comes with 2 games: Solitair and Bubble Breaker. I m not a fan of either. Downloading new games will cost you. I haven t found any free games online yet. And most of them are $20!
NEW STUFF THAT COMES WITH WINDOWS MOBILE 6: The new treos are now selling with the new WM6 software. The upgrade took about 30 min for me. First time had an error but I just restarted the upgrade and it worked perfectly! The palm website tells you how to do it step by step!
I was happy with my Treo before I upgraded the software but I did feel like something was missing K I guess I expected a little big more. And boy did I get it when I upgraded. They threw in tons of new programs and options in there! Here is what I now have:
MobiTv- I can stream live TV. Channels are limited and you get a 3 day free trial. I don t think I need this, so I tried it, and deleted it. I think it s like ten bucks a month. Quality is really, really good!
Cellular video-this is cool, you can watch any missed episodes of the Real World, or TNA, they have tons of shows you can browse through, cartoons, music, movies, TV shows. And it s all free no charge!! I did not find a FULL SCREEN option so it s very small because you have your pause and play options below it and black space all around the screen.
ATT MALL:
In windows Mobile 5, I had no way of downloading anything, but now I can go to the ATT Mall which has Music Player, Shop for Music, Music ID, XM Radio, Music Videos, Community, Music. Some of these are still empty because they re still updating their database, but I m very pleased that they are doing something and adding a lot of features.
SONG ID-this is cool, I had this on my Verizon phone for free, but AT&T charges it. But I tested it out on a few songs for free, I might add this on to my bill. (if you hear a song you like on the car radio or in a lounge, turn this thing on and it ll analyze the song and tell you what it is.)
Xm RADIO-has 25 channels and its $9 a month. You get a 3 day trial if you want to try it out.
Remote Desktop
This comes when you upgrade the phone to WM6, I have not tried it out yet.
USB Charge
This did not work in Windows Mobile 5 so I m so ecstatic that I t works now that I ve upgraded. I was always jealous of my coworker who charged his iPhone at work with his USB, and now I can too!
You can use this phone as a modem for your computer if you do not have internet at home, using your USB (maybe Bluetooth too I m not sure)
I really love this phone now that I upgraded the software it s more than I could ve asked for. I was hesitant about filling out my rebate form because I still wasn t fully fulfilled with the phone. I was upset about the navigation not working and the minor glitches, but the TV and video makes up for it...especially since my husband who has the Blackberry 8310 has navigation on it was so happy with his phone until I showed him that I now have TV & video streaming which he does not have. I think he s a little jealous now K I filled out my rebate form today and can t wait to brag to my friends about all the cool new stuff I now have on my phone after upgrading it!
Rating phone and buying experience at Amazon March 20, 2007
M. Zafar (CA, USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
Best Windows Mobile Phone January 30, 2007
C. Helsel (South Florida, USA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
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?!
4 1/2 stars would be perfect... May 23, 2007
Brian Lord (College Park, Maryland)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
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.
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