Verizon wireless - Treo 650 or Motorola v325?

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Treo 650 or Motorola v325?

Scott Ehrlich

2006-06-25, 10:33 pm

The Treo 650 has been around for a while now, with several bugs apparently
worked out.

I'm in the Boston, MA area, and when my contract expires at the end of the
year, I'll likely be looking to trade in my LG VX6100 for either the Treo
650 or the Motorola v325. I'd go with the v325 because it has the best
reception, with both digital and amps.

I also like occasional web browsing, and I want a speakerphone. I also
plan to use voice minutes for data calls. What are people's experiences
with the Treo 650 now? Is it considered reliable enough?

Thanks for any feedback/insight.

Scott

Isaiah Beard

2006-06-29, 7:33 am

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> The Treo 650 has been around for a while now, with several bugs apparently
> worked out.

Except for, notably, the random reboot issue, which sometimes still
happens to some people.

> I'm in the Boston, MA area, and when my contract expires at the end of the
> year, I'll likely be looking to trade in my LG VX6100 for either the Treo
> 650 or the Motorola v325. I'd go with the v325 because it has the best
> reception, with both digital and amps.
>
> I also like occasional web browsing, and I want a speakerphone. I also
> plan to use voice minutes for data calls.

If I may ask... why? I've never understood why Verizon charges voice
minutes for 1xRTT data, which is decidedly not even close to a voice
call on how the network handles it. I think Sprint's $15/month (or
$10 a month if you ask nicely) all-you-can-eat 1xRTT Vision plan was far
superior.

Additionally, I definitely think EVDO is worth it. If I was in the
market for a smart phone, the 700w or 700p (preferably the p) would
probably be at the top of my list. The hardware on the 700 series seems
more refined, to boot.

> What are people's experiences
> with the Treo 650 now? Is it considered reliable enough?

I had a Treo 650 on Sprint. It did the job reasonably well, for a PDA
phone (but be aware that my opinion is pessimistic because I'm a bit
jaded about "smart" phones).

The only real annoyance came after mine took a nasty spill and had to be
replaced under insurance. My first Treo 650 was rock solid, but the
replacement had this random reboot issue. Get an SMS, sometimes (I'd
say one out of every 5 or so SMS's received) it would reboot. AvantGo
occasionally locked up, requiring a hard reset. Sometimes, after a
call, the phone would just reboot. And then there were times I would
wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of my Treo powering up
after yet another random reboot, for no particularly apparent reason at
all.

I never lost any data, and I don't THINK I missed any calls, though I
think I did occasionally miss a text message or two.

It would appear that there are inconsistencies in the hardware that Palm
hasn't quite figured out. Even now, sometimes you'll great a great,
solid unit, and other times you'll get one with problems. HOPEFULLY
they've fixed these inconsistencies in the Treo 700w and 700p.

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