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Palm Treo 180
Introduced in 2002 and among the earliest Palm models and originators of the smartphone in the market, the Palm Treo 180 is a monumental piece in the mobile industry. While size had become a major contention to Treo 180, its functionality had been hailed during its time.
Treo 180 comes in steel-blue color, and has a dimension of 4.3 x 2.7 x 0.7 inches and weight of 5.2 ounces. It also sports a flip design with see-through window that covers the monochrome screen. A scroll wheel is also located on the left side for navigating menus and lists. Its 4-bit color support runs at a 160 x 160-pixel resolution.
Flipping the protective cover automatically turns the display into a speed-dial menu. Accessing the Palm OS start-up menu is possible by clicking the Home Icon on the QWERTY keyboard. Among Treo 180′s productivity tools are Memo Pad, Blazer, Advanced Calculator, HotSync Manager, Instant Lookup, Palm Desktop Software, Expense, Date Book+, To Do List, Phonebook and CityTime world clock. It also includes a USB cable.
Treo 180 runs on a 33MHz Motorola DragonBall processor and comes with 16MB of memory and Palm OS 3.52. The problem with this unit is that the OS isn’t upgradeable and no slot for adding up memory. Connectivity features in Treo 180 are limited but is already promising when they were introduced during the time. It included a Handspring’s Blazer browser for accessing the Internet (9.6Kbps to 14.4Kbps, GSM). Some may also need their ISP such as Earthlink to surf.
E-mail with Treo 180 only includes POP3 e-mail applications such as the JP Mobile One-Touch Mail for forwarding e-mails to the device from existing POP3 accounts. Receiving messages from AOL mail is also possible, as well as sending SMS messages t e-mail addresses and other GSM-enabled cell phones in the United States and abroad after activating international roaming.
Using the Treo 180 remains a comfort, almost the same as using a standard flip phone. The speakerphone is also a plus feature, alongside with an ear0bud style headset for hands-free conversations. The bad side of the Treo 180 is on its batteries: with only 2.5 hours talk time and 60 hours standby, it could have been better. Nevertheless, the Treo 180 has remained an important part in the mobile industry.