Bye Bye Treo 750, Hello HTC Tilt

 



You might say I have been pretty loyal to the Treo Brand of Phones.  I have owned the Treo 600, 650, 680, and 750.  I started with the palm operating system and made the move to the Windows Mobile Treo.  I had a BlueTooth GPS Device and a wireless Keyboard that carried along with my phone as well as many spare batteries and chargers.  The Treo 750 was a great phone, but as I added more application to it, it became less reliable.  Towards the end, it seemed like I was hard resetting it once a month.     

I walked into the AT&T Store to purchase and additional battery last week and looked and the new phones they had.  After no careful thinking, I decided to purchase the Tilt, which is a Windows Mobile Device.  It gets its name because the keyboard slides out and you can tilt the screen so it mimics a laptop.

 

This spur of the moment purchases was one of my better notions because my smartphone is now increasing my productivity and not leaving me frustrated.

  It my next post I will cover the apps I have added to it.

Here are list of my improvements over the Treo and other Smartphone's:

 

• Large Screen

• Built in  WiFi

• Built in GPS

• Large Keyboard

• Built in Backup Software

• 3 Mega Pixel Camera

• Voice Dialing

• Fast

• Tons of space

CNET REVIEW:   http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/at-t-tilt/4505-6452_7-32638455.html?tag=pop

 

Technical Specs

• Weight 6.0 ounces

• Dimensions: 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.73 inches

• Talk Time: Up to 4 hours

• Standby Time: Up to 8 days

• Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) support

• Stereo Bluetooth® 2.0

• Supports up to 6 simultaneous Bluetooth® pairings

• 3 MP camera with 10x zoom and autofocus

• Large 2.8" 240 x 320 64K tilting color touchscreen

• Powered by Qualcomm MSM7200 400 MHz processor

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

• 3.6 Mbps Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100

• 256 MB Flash ROM and 128 MB SRAM

• microSD expansion slot supports up to 2 GB expandable memory

• Built-in GPS for use with AT&T Navigator

• Warranty: One year warranty on new phones & accessories, 90 days on refurbished

• All talk, data & standby times depend on network configuration

Comments

[George Eliades]

I believe you will love it--the Tilt--as I do--after giving up on my Kyocera 7135--but the big problem for me is that unless you use MS Outlook--which I never did--you can't sync the Tilt with TM unless you feed everything into Outlook and do a "3 way".....TM to Outlook to Tilt and even then-beyond the hassle, I'm not confident with the result. It was so easy and a joy with my Palm based 7135. With all the Pocket PC users today, one would think they would produce a similar sync. There was a time when I was told TM9 would correct this--but I have not seen anything that indicates it did. I've read of LN emasculating TM and it's too bad. It was a great system--even for a solo like me. Thankfully I'll be "hanging 'em up" in the not too distant future!