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| Brand: palm
List Price: $699.99
Buy New: $499.99
You Save: $200.00 (29%)
New (1) Used (1) from $399.99
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 15245
Color: Blue
Media: Wireless Phone Accessory
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Display Size: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: SCHi760ZKV
UPC: 805931021113
EAN: 0805931021113
ASIN: B000P8TGOI
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 6-8 of 8
 A workhorse phone for busy connected people July 8, 2008
R. S. Winsor (Northern Virginia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had the Motorola Q9m prior to this phone. Although Motorola is the best in my opinion for raw cell phone calling capability, that phone was terrible at everything else. But this is not about that device. This is about the Palm Treo, which is what I switched to after I found that the Q9m is actually not compatible with most car kits that have phonebook capability.
I got the Treo and I have been thrilled ever since.
The Palm OS is something I used several years ago, and now coming back to it, it's like an old friend. All my old Palm apps still work great, and I really love that my Palm memos can be stored securely, requiring a password to unlock. This allows me to store personal information that I regularly need on the go, but I can password protect the information and feel confident that the information will not be compromised. With Windows devices, this is really not possible (I don't know about blackberry, though).
For email, I recommend shelling out the extra $40 for chatteremail, a really fantastic email package that has many many features. Features that may frighten the casual user, but for the most part, the default setting are great and you can have fantastic email service on this device with little trouble. The free Versamail is good, but Chatteremail offers IMAP push, so messages on IMAP servers come through immediately. I get messages on my phone BEFORE they show up on my desktop nearly all the time.
The phone calling functions are very good. Calls are not quite as good as with a phone like the RAZR, but still quite good, and better than any Samsung, LG or Nokia phone I have ever used, and I have used several models of each through various work duties.
Bluetooth is very nice. With my Parrot car kit (a 3200 color kit), my "quick dial" contacts all synchronize well and it handles transfers of calls when I turn on and off the car very nicely. Bluetooth Hotsync with my PC works considerably slower than USB, but I don't care. It is not so time consuming that it bothers me. It is about as good as bluetooth gets.
I love the quick dial ability. EVERY alpha or numeric key on the keyboard can be set to quick dial. I really like that because it is easier for me to remember a letter association with a quick dial than a number.
The screen is really fantastic. It is really an ideal size. The resolution is quite good and a lot of information can fill the screen. Yet it is not too big, as the overall size of the phone I find quite tolerable. The brightness of the screen is excellent. I can use it in broad, direct, high-noon sunlight, and in fact it looks quite decent under such lighting. The touch screen works nicely, too. The phone comes with a screen protector. I highly recommend taking the time to apply it to the screen. Not only does it protect the screen, it actually makes it easier to clean (which surprised me). Take the time to apply it well, being careful not to introduce bubbles. I use the broad end of the stylus to push out the bubbles as I slowly lay it down from one side to the other.
The web browser is something I have really come to appreciate tremendously. Blazer (the name of the browser) takes pages and reformats them for better viewing and scrolling on the small screen. Although Blazer does not do this for all web pages, it does it for many, and this is very nice for what I like to do. I also like the bookmarks tabs that can be setup. I setup one page of marks for news, one for entertainment, etc, etc.
Many people complain about needing to reset. Although I agree this is something that has to be done more often than desired, it is my experience that a reset takes little time. In fact, a reset takes about 1/5th the time of a windows mobile reset. My Treo has plenty of apps and yet I do not need to reset all that often (once a week, maybe).
I have only one gripe, and that is that it often has moments when it takes a second or two to "react" to an input. This is clearly a case of something happening in the background. An annoyance, but compared with the other smartphones, a minor price to pay.
I do not use the media features, so I can not comment on them (eg music, video) although I have viewed a few youtube videos with no issues. The camera is a toy, producing crappy images, but this is what I would expect from a device that has no room for decent optics.
This is truly my one-device-does all phone. Email, phone calls, contacts management, calendar appointments, tasks. I have it all in one place.
I use it so much every day that I drain the battery by the end of the day. I need to get the larger battery (the Seidio extended battery without the extended door looks nice....).
I highly recommend this phone.
 good phone, even better if bought from Verizon August 3, 2008
RPG (Timbuktu)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At the time of writing this phone is listed here on Amazon for $215. But Verizon offers it for $100 ($150 less $50 mail-in rebate), which is what I paid.
However, Verizon is discontinuing the 755p to focus on the cheaply built Palm Centro. They allow Centro users to have a $30 data plan, but 755p users must pay $45. They could not explain the reason to me.
Note that Verizon pushes their own 'wireless sync' e-mail solution, but that is a slow and bloated method of getting e-mail. Verizon does it to get control over your e-mail access. They made Palm leave out the Versamail program from the Verizon version of the 755p (it is provided on the Sprint 755p). Fortunately Palm makes it available for free separately, and it is perfectly legal to download and install Versamail. (Works on the Centro as well.) Versamail is simple and quick.
 On my second replacement phone - very disappointed October 26, 2008
SAJ from NJ (New Jersey, USA)
Approximately 6 months ago I purchased the Verizon Palm Treo 755p. Ten days later it began to freeze-up, I was unable to use the touch-screen. I returned it for a new one. Then again, about two months later the second phone became slow to respond. Verizon had me do a full hard re-boot, but to no avail.
I was then shipped a "pre-owned" replacement. It works OK, but on occasion will not respond, or just black out for a minute or so and then return. Not good when you urgently need to make a call.
I recently met another Verizon 755p user, who also has encountered the very same issues and also needed to get a replacement phone.
Bottom line, I wanted to really like this phone, but I wouldn't recommend it. I am seriously thinking about breaking my contract and looking at another product.
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