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!

[Richard Jaffe]

can u please compare it to blackberry curve? blackberry has push email. does the Tilt have push email too?

[Craig Bayer]

A lot of people like the Blackberry Curve. It is a smaller phone for one. The curve has push email only when running Microsoft Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server. The Tilt only needs Microsoft Exchange for push email. It takes about 3 minutes to setup.

[Craig Bayer]

Ad for the syncing with outlook and TM, all I can say is pretty much all legal specific software is stopping the support of the palm sync. If you can get the TM Exchange Sync to work, then you can have push sync with TM.