Palm Treo 700wx Verizon Phone Review

The Palm Treo 700wx Phone for Verizon is the first Treo smartphone to use Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. 9 months when debuting on Verizon, the 700wx is the first to become on the market on another carrier with one key further benefit, double the operating memory. Palm Treo 700w series aims to bring the Palm experience to Windows Mobile. It does so by combining the Pocket PC with variety of Palm smartphone innovations and broadband like data speeds.

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The Palm Treo 700wx conjointly shares the 700w's highly customize home screen, with its convenient speed-dialing and search boxes. You also get a similar QWERTY keyboard that creates dialing contacts with one hand and punching out quick e-mails a breeze. Photo-based speed-dialing, VCR-like voice-mail controls and the ability to send a text message when you ignore a call add up to the most effective call-management expertise on a Pocket PC to this point.

The phone has pretty good reception and average audio quality. The earpiece is pretty loud, and the speakerphone is audible altogether however the noisiest outdoor areas. Noise cancellation tends to create transmissions sound hollow, however it does help voices come to the fore. Outdoors in high-volume noise areas, transmissions had a bent to be a bit muddy, however not intolerably so. You can use your own MP3s and videos as ringtones, and talk time was very good, at just under five hours. In my opinion, however, the lack of built-in voice dialing is unacceptable in 2006.

The 1.3 MP camera appears slightly improved from the Palm Treo 700w. Colors were deeper, while not the slight haze I saw obscuring 700w photos. I found that low-light shots had an excessive amount of distinction, and though exposure is good, color haloing was a big downside in outdoors shots. Though the Palm Treo's video camera and 352- by 288-pixel capture mode guarantees great things, video is low-quality, at 8 frames per second with distracting artifacts.

The Treo 700wx phone uses CDMA wireless technology (850/1900MHz digital) and supports EvDO high-speed wireless data. EvDO allows for data speeds around 10x faster than previous 1xRTT rates and is backwards compatible. The carriers claim that EvDO speeds average around 400-600k, though you are more likely to see around 250-500k. In my area I get about 2-3 bars of coverage, and generally saw speeds of around 300-400k using mobile speed tests. EvDO also allows you to receive calls while the Internet connection is active, on older 1x CDMA devices the phone would not accept calls when actively using the data connection.

You can use the Treo 700wx as a wireless modem for your laptop or desktop computer. Not all carriers may support this feature, and some might even require you to purchase a additional DUN or wireless modem data plan. Sprint does charge extra for this feature and only supports Dial-Up Networking with Windows XP/2000. Fortunately, the included USB cables will trickle charge the Treo when in use, so you don't have to worry about draining the battery when using it in DUN mode.

That said, the Palm Treo 700wx is a very powerful smartphone. I have to say it’s the best Pocket PC device that I've ever used to date. Windows Mobile fans will find a lot to like with the Treo. Palm's customizations vastly improve the phone features and bring some cool and add some very useful functionality to Windows Mobile. The combination of a multi-tasking OS and a high speed data connection really let you tap into the power of mobile computing. You can also check for this phone at CellularCountry.com which is one of the leading seller of used cell phones.