As I continue to look at possibilities to combine my personal digital assistant with my communication device, I am visiting my brother who has just upgraded his phone from a Palm Treo 700w to the shiny new Motorola Droid X and he offers to let me take his older phone and see how I like it. This sounds like a good idea, since I have used Palm products before and am familiar with them.
Several things I notice as I look it over and start getting the touch and feel of the personal organization device. This electronic organizer has an exposed keyboard on the face and the 700w means it is a Windows mobile device – compatible with my Windows computer and also Microsoft Outlook. I like this possibility. You might remember from an earlier post that whatever the communication device I upgrade to, I am looking for a solution to sync with my Microsoft Outlook and all of the features of Outlook I use – Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Notes. So before I ever hook it up to test out the possibilities, I have some high hopes for this older personal digital assistant.
The Palm Treo 700w offers a 16 bit color 240 X 240 touch screen display as well as a QWERTY keypad for input. One difference from the 650 is that the keys are more square and not so oval in shape. The CPU is an Intel 312 MHz processor with XScale technology and has 128 MB of non- volatile memory. It has built in Bluetooth (1.2), a 1.3 megapixel (1280 X 1024 resolution) digital camera with a 2x digital zoom and video camera capability and also supports SD, SDIO and Multi Media Cards for additional memory.
As I evaluate my future personal organization, this older electronic organizer, at least on the surface, has some appeal to me as a communication device and personal digital assistant – I think I’m going to enjoy this test drive!
