Well I finally got my hands on my new Treo 650 yesterday. It has been held up in Costa Rican Customs for over a week! I bought the Treo over eBay and my final cost was about $400, a savings of 100% over the local cost ($800), so I am happy.

My first experience out of the box was a bit scary. After waiting patiently for a couple of hours for the Treo to charge up, it reset repeatedly with both of my Costa Rican SIM chips. Since the model I purchased was an unlocked Cingular unit, I suspected it had something to do with the unlocking process.

I did a hard reset of the unit and reinserted my first SIM. The phone initialized just fine, found the SIM and registered on the network. The coolest thing is that the Treo has better reception than my trusty RAZR ever had.

Next was the Internet test.

I loaded Mobile High Speed, (A special application with preconfigured scripts for just about every internet provider in the world. Configured it for the Treo and Pow! It immediately connected to the internet, something my Lifedrive and RAZR combination was NEVER able to do from my house.

I am sold!


For the last six months I have been wanting the Treo. I read daily the Palm Addicts Website, and drool over some of the Treo stories. I can truly say that I now understand what all the hype was about. I have not tested the call quality yet, but I have to say that my first impressions of the Treo, based on the Internet connectivity alone, are very positive.

I will write more after I have had a chance to give it some real world test as a phone.

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