Phone Scoop - Palm Treo 300 Info

User Review: Not a good phone

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:25:40 GMT

vouman submitted this review of the Palm Treo 300:

Overall rating: 1.5 (out of 5)

Pros - Very cool display and keyboard. Keyboard is good for one handed operation. Speed dial very convenient. Very likeable phone (if quality was there).

Cons - Quality is not good in this phone. The paint started wearing off before I had the phone a week, just from being in my pocket. The battery life was dismal. With any type of normal use, it would need to be recharged. I thought it was unusual, so I bought a new battery. It was only slightly better. By the way, you have to take it apart to replace the battery. When I did this I noticed that 1 of the 4 screws used to secure the casing was stripped. Before I had it a month, the casing was loosening up and the keyboard would not operate properly. On top of this, the sould quality was not good at all. When I would call Sprint, the automated voices were completely distorted.

Luckily the Ebay store I bought this at had a good return policy. I exchanged it for a Samsung i330.

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User Review: The Treo 300 is good, but the Treo 600 & 650 are WAY BETTER!

Mon, 02 May 2005 23:42:40 GMT

the2ndflood submitted this review of the Palm Treo 300:

Overall rating: 3.5 (out of 5)

I have used the Treo's 300, 600 and now the 650. Not to mention a T-Mobile Sidekick, the AT&T Motorola MPX, a Nextel Blackberry, a Samsung i600, and Treo's are the absolute gods of cell phones!!! The Palm source OS software is very stable, much more then Microsoft's Pocket PC. The battery life on the Treo 600 & 650 is insane! Often times when I'm home laying in bed, I will search the Internet for hours and hours and these phones will still have more then enough battery power to go for a few more hours. When it comes to talk time I have gotten more then five hours talk time on the Treo 650. There is so many programs for the Palm source software, that you will be able to max out the performance on these phones. I use a program called "Speedy 5.0" which allows me to check the MHz rating of the processor at any given time, and most of the time I am running 310MHz, and can peak at 325MHz which is faster then the 312 MHz listed as the standard. I also use a program called "ZLauncher" which allows me to see the exact signal purity in any given location, and I have found I get signals in places where my LG and Sanyo would not. And because I use Sprint PCS's $10 unlimited Visions access with my Treo 650, I never have to worry about going over any data plan rate. I just purchased my Sprint Treo 650 the other day, and I am so mega happy with it! I will remain a loyal Palmone and Sprint PCS customer for a long time to come!

The only problem I have with PalmOne is over price. I wish the Treo's were cheaper. Other then that, I have never had a major problem with my Treo's.

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User Review: Treo, great concept but substandard hardware and customer support

Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:45:20 GMT

JeffP submitted this review of the Palm Treo 300:

Overall rating: 1.5 (out of 5)

I have had my Treo for 10 months and while I think the concept and execution of the concept is incredible, the quality of the product and the support network is the worst I have ever seen.

I have had 3 replacements for my original Treo. Each time the unit malfunctioned and became unusable. This last one lasted 3 months without a major malfunction (a record).

I have had to become very familiar with the reset function on each of my units as all continue to crash.

Each unit had unique problems. One was the display, another mysteriously siezed. One even came without cellphone software. Each time one went back for a new unit, the replacement had more serious, annoying problems than it's predecessor.

The people at Handspring are so hard to deal with that one has to become enraged for them to act. They are nearly impossible. They want to charge you for tech support after 90 days and they constantly ask for a credit card number to provide replacement warranty service.

Don't even bother to send them an e-mail, they take forever to reply!

I love the design and execution and have become reliant on my Treo BUT it is horribly unreliable and Handspring is awful to deal with!

Maybe Palm can help these bunglers out!

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User Review: Best PDA/Phone Period !!

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:48:22 GMT

hdtravel submitted this review of the Palm Treo 300:

Overall rating: 5 (out of 5)

Once you own this little gem you will never again own, want, or need a seperate wireless phone and PDA. The Treo 300 combines both devices into a small unit that easily fits into your pocket. The screen is sharp and the color vivid. Audio is clear and crisp and you can run thousands of existing Palm applications. The keyboard is an extremely useful feature. I will NEVER go back to a phone or PDA without a full QWERTY keyboard. Service from Sprint is the best of all the carriers in my opinion here in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area. This is a winning combination. Get rid of your old technology and get a real phone - a Treo 300.

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