The review about this product
What ever you do, DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!!!
From a Long Time PALM User
Let me first start by saying that I am a loyal Palm-Handspring-PalmOne-Palm user. I have owned the folowing; Palm IIIe, Palm Vx, HandSpring Visor, Handspring Visor Delux, VisorPhone (a Handspring Phone Add on), Treo 270, Treo 600, Treo 650, and am now the SAD owner of two completly useless Treo 700w's.
I really was loving my GSM treo 650, but my wife wanted to upgarde to a Smartphone and was on Verizon, so that coupled with the lure of the high speed internet led to the worst $1000 purchase of our lives.
It is unfortunate for Verizon and Palm that I bought two of these and was able to see that all of the crashes and problems that I was having were not isolated to my phone, becuase my wife's was doing the same exact things.
It is one thing if you run into some bugs with the more advanced applications, but when you are locked into a two year contract for PHONE service, then PHONE part better at least work. On the Treo 700w it does not. Here are some of the problems with JUST the phone application in the device, I will not even need to mention the more advanced issues.
1)Horrible call quality
2)Constant dropped calls
3)Often, the phone can not swap between calls without disconnecting.
4)Can not hang up on second caller (so you have two calls going on and on and on, which I am sure verizon is charging you for those mins).
4) Phone randomly dialing calls when it is sitting uninterupted on the desk in front of you
5)Phone calls your voicemail when you dial another person.
6)Bluetooth headset disconnects EVERYTIME you walk more than 50 feet away and only a 5-10 min series of soft resets and resyncing can get them to connect again.
7)Phone rings and the ansewer screen will not come up, so you can not ansewer the call.
8)Voicemails apearing 10 mins after someone called with no indication of call arriving prior to that
9) Worst of all. The phone will somtimes appear to be working normally and I will go for an entire day without a call. Then late in the day I will try to check my email or make a call and neither will work. I do a reset and then the horror kicks in. Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, you have 24 voicemails and 8 text messages....WHERE ARE YOU!
All of our old phones rang when someone called and allowed you to ansewer and hang up on people. Is this too much to ask?
In genreal I would have to say that the operating system on this phone is in ALPHA phase. It is nowhere near ready for the public market that it has found it's way too. I could also go on and on about the horror of trying to get PALM and VERIZON to own up to this fact and give me a different phone...ANY Phone. I asked for a refurbished 1999 Audiovox, because at least I know I can make and recive calls. They will not even do that for me. Because of my positve history with the PALM operating system, I am still going to give PALM one more chance, but I am going back to the PALM operating system with the TREO 680.
What ever you do, DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!!!
