Palm Treo 500v - Midgets only please
Got fingers the size of matchsticks? Is tiny your middle name?
If the answer is yes to either of these two questions, we have the phone for you. The Palm Trea 500v has a reasonable spec sheet for a phone of this type: Windows Mobile 6, 2-megapixel camera, 3G / UMTS data, microSD slot, Bluetooth 2.0, mini USB, and a 320×240 display, but good grief! If there is a smaller, more crushed together- impossible to use without pushing three buttons accidentally at the same time - key board out there, I have yet to find it.
The built-in camera is of a reasonable quality, the phone itself is easy to use and the quality of the audio is better than I have come to expect from a Treo. Butthis phone lacks a certain indefinable something that a phone in this price bracket needs. Style. A Like the man said, “I can’t tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it,” and I am not seeing it.
Apart from that, I don’t see one of the main features (the full querty key board) being usable on a day to day basis. Especially when you consider that the main purpose of this phone is to send emails. If I was given one of these by the company I worked for, it would have had an “accident” by the time I got out of the office. Big thumbs down, small thumbs up.
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