6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
I'm throwing mine in a river!!!
Date of Review: Jun 9, 2006
The Bottom Line: Stay away from the 650. It's 100% flash and 0% substance. It will frustrate you daily. Hopefully the 700 model fixes the bugs.
This phone is the ultimate tease. It's like a gorgeous woman with a great body asking you on a date, you find out she loves sports and has no kids but wants some, and after you get your hopes up, you find out she is a man. The concept of this all in one phone/pda was going to allow me to use it to open keyboxes and check listings in my real estate career, check my emails on the go, use a bluetooth wireless headset, make my own ringtones through converting my mp3's to WAV files, then cropping out my favorite 20 second segment of the song (very easy to do on the sprint 6700 pda phone).
I got my dream phone delivered to my doorstep, and here is whats happened so far:
1. The "get emails" function works for about a day or 2, and all of a sudden I get error messages, and have to call sprint to reset my vision? If you have ever used a blackberry, this email system is instant death for you by comparison.
2. I get a plantronics bluetooth headset, and it's full of static on every other call, so I return it and get a motorola. Guess what, it's full of static. I return that, and get a TREO bluetooth thinking they intentionally made their bluetooth suck on all devices but their own, and guess what? More static on this than any other. I need the wireless, but by the time I figure out there are none that work well with this, it will likely be too late to return the phone. If anybody knows if the problem is fixed with the treo 700, please let me know.
3. The ability to make custom ringers isn't panning out. The software coming with the treo to get it synched to the computer makes my $3000 dell xps laptop crash when no other program does. I took it to my office and tried to install it on my $1500 gateway computer and guess what, it crashes there too. I tried simply making my ringtones and putting them on a SD memory card then popping it in the phone. The only thing my phone can do with those is play them on the built-in real player, but doesn't give me the option to choose them for a ringer.
4. The keybox access for real estate I'm sure works perfectly, but I can't go through the process of the install/payment when I think the phone has to be returned anyways. Once again, if somebody out there knows that the 700 has fixed these problems, please let me know.
My wife has the 6700 pda phone which looks cool, has cumbersome operating features, but I have to say the bluetooth works perfectly, the ability to customize ringers works perfectly, if they would only have it work with the keybox access I'd be sold. Do not buy the 650!
