Review: Treo 755p
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The browser is just about the only application included on the 755p that does not start up instantaneously. It takes a second or two for the application to launch, and even longer for it to start a data session. Users of Treo 650p or 700p will be pleased to hear that the 755p launches the browser significantly faster than older models.
The Treo comes with Palm's Blazer browser, which uses a server to scrape regular websites and reformat the content for the Palm's screen. Although the 755p has EV-DO high speed data, the extra trip that websites take before they get to the phone slows things down. Although desktop formatted websites probably load quicker in Blazer, mobile formatted websites do not.
Customize
As previously discussed, the phone dialer can be replaced with a wallpaper, although only a portion of the picture is displayed, and there is no preview or choice of how it will be cropped.
There are a huge number of color themes which change the color of the background, title bar and text, and you can choose from one of four fonts in most applications (though you can't set this globally). These fonts, which have been part of the Palm OS for many years, start at large and go up to positively huge. None of them are smoothed or take advantage of sub-pixel rendering. The Pocket Tunes mp3 player can also be customized with different skins.
The 755p ships with a large number of ringtones and alerts, most of which sound dated. Even though this is a smartphone, you cannot load your own mp3 ringtones on this Treo. Instead you have to use one of the services that send the tunes as an MMS as you do with the majority of Sprint's other phones. You can, however, record your own ringtone (up to one minute long) using the built in sound manager.
File Management
There is no native file manager for Palm OS. Each file type is managed from within the application used to access it. Applications are managed from the PC using the Palm Desktop, however they can be downloaded and installed directly on the Treo from the browser.
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