If you’ve been reading my sites for a while, you’d know that ever since the Treo 700w hit Verizon a couple years ago, I have had a soft spot for the Palm Treo line. The Treo 700w was the 1st Treo to come out with Windows Mobile. That was huge in my book for Palm. Following on, The Treo 750 became my go to phone for about 6-9 months and I really loved the phone and email experience on the 750.
This year, Palm released the Treo 800w on Sprint. If history would repeat it’s self, you would have expected a GSM version of the 800w a few months later. I was expecting to see a Treo 850 on AT&T sometime late 2008. I am not sure if Palm will offer a Treo 800w in the GSM variety, but they have released the Palm Treo Pro, unlocked in the GSM Variety. That is what I have been using for the last couple weeks.
The Palm Treo Pro is a Windows Mobile phone that breaks out of the typical, yet popular, Treo mold that we’ve all become familiar with. The progression has gone from the early Treos with the big antenna to the sleek, antenna-less Treo 750, to the smaller (non Windows Mobile) Centro, to the Treo 800w, and finally a new chapter in the book in the Treo Pro.
The Treo Pro is a slim, more modern phone with a glossy black finish. The Treo Pro has been manufactured by one of the leaders in mobile phones, HTC too. The buttons have been moved around a bit from the Treo and the keyboard has been redone to be smaller.
There still isn’t Microsoft Exchange Server support for the T-Mobile G1 or any other Android Phones yet, but if you are going to be ok without push email and just want your 600 contacts from your exchange server to be synced, Wrike has you covered. Their FREE ContactsSync application can connect to your Exchange server and sync your contacts. Unlike Kevin Tofel, I have no plans of migrating to Google’s web services. I prefer sticking with what works for me, Exchange Server.
This should do just fine until someone gets a 3rd party app going that does full Exchange Server syncing. Right now, Android users are out of luck on Exchange Server push email.
One of the most tedious aspects of online shopping and logins is the laborious process of going through the shopping cart hoops and filling out the forms with all the required information. Well, that’s no longer an issue with RoboForm. This handy application remembers all your stuff and will automatically complete all the fields in any form with the single click of a mouse. I honestly think I would give up online shopping if it were not for RoboForm. All you have to do is complete a RoboForm profile. It stores your info and can regurgitate it next time you need to fill out a form. It’s a pleasure to behold.
It even remembers stuff like credit card information and expiration dates and puts it in the proper field flawlessly. It allows you to have several profiles of completion data for your personal forms and another for you business, businesses, or another for your spouse. It conveniently provides for multiple users too. What about security you say? No problem it is a multifaceted, secure, encrypted system that you can password protect. It will generate a secure password for you if you wish. You can actually password protect any fields you specify. You can create a master password before you enter the program if you wish. RoboForm also has a Safenotes utility where you can store sensitive information securely. This is like having a secure electronic wallet for safely storing credit card information, bank accounts, passwords, insurance, IRS information and more. People pay good money for standalone programs like this, but it’s included free with RoboForm. Form completion is not the only function that RoboForm fulfills. It will put your passwords on speed dial and automatically log you into a Website. For this purpose it creates a set of Passcards with the appropriate data for even multi-step login sites. It will also adjust for turing fields that you have to complete manually before submitting. All you have to do is complete the login procedure as you normally would, and a Passcard window will automatically popup giving you the choice to password protect the login information or not. RoboForm creates a Passcard for this login and adds it to the list. (more…)
As I am getting close to completing my review of the Palm Treo Pro, I decided to throw up some photos that I would normally have already posted. Better late than never, right?
One of the strongest points that the BlackJack has is it’s easy one handed use. Pulling the phone out of my left pocket, I can have email checked in seconds. Scroll down the new messages and delete or reply with one hand. In the first bit of time with the Epix, the mouse makes that a bit more difficult. While the mouse is quite simple to navigate, it’s not really ideal for how I use my phone. There has to be a way to disable that thing, right? Well, we are in luck.
You can turn the mouse off and enable the pad to operate in 4 way navigation mode. This doesn’t turn the pad into a dpad though. It turns it into a touch pad similar to the one on the Zune. You now slide your finger up/down or left/right to navigate. It’s not the best navigation method for me, but it works better for me than the mouse.
Here it is, the rumored BlackJack III. It’s been rumored and speculated about for the last few months and all of a sudden, it pops up at AT&T with little warning. I have had the chance to give this one a test drive and I am now torn. Which new front facing qwerty keyboard Windows Mobile phone do I like more? This one of the Palm Treo Pro. I have to admit that the 1800mah battery (If it performs well) and the keyboard on the Epix make this an easier choice for me. Anyhow, last night I snapped some photos and did a quick video to show you all the Samsung SGH-i907 (AT&T Epix).
You can pick up the AT&T Epix at AT&T for 9 subsidized. It’s got some power packed inside. As mentioned by others, it’s a tad thicker than you might be used to, but it feels good in the hand and is powerful.
I’m a long time user of the SPB tools. I like the way they build their user interface and the SPB Mobile Shell product is the first thing I install on each of my devices.
Today I found that the SPB Mobile Shell will be one of the panels included in Sony Ericsson’s XPeria X1.
As part of the strategic partnership between Sony Ericsson and Spb Software, Spb has put forth a top-notch, Spb Mobile Shell-based solution that compliments the X1 in both style and speed. Taking advantage of the smartphone’s unique panel technology, impressive hardware and dynamic wide VGA touchscreen, this custom version of Spb Mobile Shell is optimized for the new Xperia, and comes with all X1 devices as a free download.
I usually post about freewares I can recommend on, because as someone who also develop them I believe it is a good thing for the Windows Mobile community. But I have to admit that when it comes to SPB tools – I am willing to pay for the pleasure.
The shock! The horror! We’re beginning to see signs of an absolutely impossible trend, one that just cannot be coming to fruition. Merely hours after spotting the compact-like Samsung CLEO comes an obvious rival: the LG Reveal. The chic flip phone is said to boast a full QWERTY keypad (for realz?), a black or purple motif, a 2.0-megapixel camera, built-in Bluetooth and a 2.4-inch display. Also of note, the handset will be offered with an exclusive Swarovski Crystal Bluetooth headset as part of the LG Shimmer Kit, and each one of these packages will lead to a donation to Fashion Cares. Mum’s the word on pricing / exact availability, but we’d bet dollars to donuts that yet another makeup compact-turned-flip phone appears before too long. Even if it’s just in our nightmares.
Look, Dan Hesse is an intelligent individual, which means he knew good and well that he’d start a flame war when making one particular comment to the National Press Club in Washington. The CEO of Sprint casually proclaimed that he didn’t feel Android (in its current form) was “good enough to put the Sprint brand on.” In all fairness, Sprint has shown a friendly side to Google in the past, and he did promise to sell an Android-powered phone “at some time in the future,” but asserting that Sprint is in the position to shy away from what’s arguably the most exciting thing to happen to the mobile realm since the advent of the iPhone is, um, questionable at best.
If you’ve been reading my sites for a while, you’d know that ever since the Treo 700w hit Verizon a couple years ago, I have had a soft spot for the Palm Treo line. The Treo 700w was the 1st Treo to come out with Windows Mobile. That was huge in my book for Palm. Following on, The Treo 750 became my go to phone for about 6-9 months and I really loved the phone and email experience on the 750.
There still isn’t Microsoft Exchange Server support for the T-Mobile G1 or any other Android Phones yet, but if you are going to be ok without push email and just want your 600 contacts from your exchange server to be synced, Wrike has you covered. Their 
I’m a long time user of the SPB tools. I like the way they build their user interface and the SPB Mobile Shell product is the first thing I install on each of my devices.
