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Palm Treo 650
Take a Hershey Milk Chocolate Bar and compare it with the Palm Treo 650′s size and you will be surprised that the Treo 650 is just a few millimeters shorter. The Treo 650 is considered among the largest smartphones. It was released in 2004 and its time has paved way to the importance of functionality over size, especially that the smartphone has barely reached a wider population.
The Treo 650 is bulky, with a dimension of 4.4 x .2.3 x 0.9 inches, excluding the antenna, and a weight of 6.3 ounces. It looks so similar with the Treo 600, except for the slight change in color.One of the changes in the design included the improved display. although it retained the old size of 2.5 inches at a 320 x 320-pixel resolution. The marvel lies on the 65,000 colors it projected, a very large improvement from Treo 600′s 3,375 colors. This resulted to images that are colorful and bright. The QWERTY keyboard was also retained but the semi-translucent keys felt cramped and looked when backlit.
A five-way navigation is still included in the Treo 650 layout, although there are a number of new buttons: the Talk and Power/End buttons, four shortcut buttons to the calendar, messaging, applications, and menus.
A volume rocker on the side replaced the volume buttons and another quick-launch button for opening an application of the user’s choice are also added. The top side of the Treo 650 is where the hardware switch, ringer and silent modes, MMC/SDIO expansion slot, the infrared port, and the SIM card slot are located. On the back side is the camera lens while below it is the speaker and the access for the battery. The multi-connector is on the bottom portion of the 650. Music lovers may find the connector an inconvenience especially wih the 2.5mm headset jack, wherein an adapter is required so that standard headphones can be used.
Features in the 650 include the 312MHz Intel PXA270 chip processor that supports multitasking and audio-video applications and the memory is limited to 22MB. Connectivity options in 650 include wireless WAN voice and data, infrared and Bluetooth. However, the Treo 650 can’t be used as a wireless modem and no integrated Wi-Fi as well.
Basic phone features remains the same in 650. It consists of a phone book, speakerphone, vibrate mode, three-way calling, speed dial, and picture caller ID. It runs on Palm OS 5.4 and includes productivity tools such as task list, memos, a calculator, an alarm clock, a calendar, and a world clock. Viewing Microsoft documents is possible with the Dataviz Documents To Go 7.0 application. It also includes AudiblePlayer, support for Java (J2ME)-enabled games and RealPlayer in ROM for playing MP3s or Real files. The VersaMail 3.0 application continues Treo’s pedestal in the e-mail stardom. It supports up to eight POP and IMAP accounts. Web browsing is possible with WAP 2.0. The 1.3-Megapixel camera, however, is a disappointment because of its blurry images.
Nevertheless, the Palm Treo 650 remains an important gadget when it was released on its time and it has contributed a lot to the emergence to a pool of greater smartphones.