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Originally Posted by MRM
My sitation is that my trusty Treo is about ready to leave this earth and I need to replace it. I always milk old technology until it can't be milked any more, then I try to get the latest cutting edge technology and hold onto it as long as possible.
My scorecard is pretty simple, but what I need done I need done fast and I need ease of use. I live or die by my ability to send and receive email by PDA, keep my calendar and synch to Outlook. I attend a lot of inspections where I want to take pictures at the inspection and email them to my client or personal server with comments. I also need GPS access. I send and receive some documents by PDA, so I need to be able to open and read attachments. The only other thing I need is fast internet access so I can keep up with Pelican wherever I am.
By these measures, how do the Pre and iPhone measure up to each other?
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You want a Treo Pro. I doubt you want to switch to Sprint. I don't know when the Pre will be out in GSM format, but I think it will be months.
If you are a Treo user, you like the physical keys. You will not be happy with a touch screen only phone.
You want GPS
You want E-mail with Outlook Support
You want PDF
You want a Picture phone
The TREO Pro will do all of this out of the box. It will do push Outlook. It has built in GPS. Use Google-Maps for free GPS application. PDF support is built in to WM6. You also can read and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint. All out of the box.
If you need fast internet, get AT&T service, the Pro is G3. The Pro also has built in Wifi. And you can sync, using the standard e-mail application, all types of e-mail services including, POP, IMAP and HTTP (Hotmail/Live).
Other things it will do? Bluetooth Stereo, out of the box. Fully sync calendar with Outlook. Notes and tasks with Outlook. More apps by a factor of 100 than Apple.
I been a confirmed PalmOS junkie for years. I went from the Treo 600-650-680 route, waiting for a replacement to come out. I tried an AT&T Tilt and was not happy. I sold the Tilt and bought the Pro and am very happy.
Plus, if you want to ditch the laptop, you can get a Redfly, which is a laptop like interface for the phone. It makes the phone seem like a mini-laptop. It makes Excel and Word and PDF files and Web Browser really easy to read.
www.redfly.com