No... this isn't technically a review. Its not like the Treo 650 needs another review anyway... not when two out of three reviews out there of the Treo 700w says the 650 is better; and not when Sammy can't stop raving about his new toy. However, a category of "Reviews" did seem like the closest fit, as you'll see...
In the little bit of free time that I've had recently, I've thoroughly enjoyed reading as Sammy first tried, then fell in love with his new Treo. Being a Treo user myself (first a 600, now a 650, and soon... the Treo Hollywood), I would rank watching Sammy's conversion as just a notch above reading about PalmSolo going back to a Treo after trying different variants of the dark side of the force. Sadly, though, I'm forced to shed my exterior superiority complex that I once had with Sammy... after all, he is now now no longer just a Palm Addict, but now a true Treonaut and he now has the only vehicle on the market that's sexier than my Dodge truck. :P
But as all Treo users know, there's one thing about our Treo's that we don't want to experience. No, its not the unwanted hard reset. After all, with good backups, all our precious data and email is restorable. Rather, the one thing we all fear is dropping our Precious'. I can only hope that Sammy doesn't have to suffer the pain and anxiety of confronting this fear for truly there are only two options:
A) live with the device... scratched and marred, but still usable... dealing with the ohhhh's and ahhhh's and the incessant stares...
~or~
B) replace the device and suffer the painful days of "disconnection" as you wait for your replacement device to arrive, then restore it to a working state...
As shown in the pictures, one of my colleagues (and a true Treonaut as well) dropped his Treo recently. But that wasn't all... he dropped it while getting into his car and didn't realize he had dropped it. He then proceeded to back off his driveway and run over the device. And, as if that wasn't sufficient for a trip to the Treo-abusers wing of the local jail, when he realized his sin, and attempted to pick up the phone, he accidentally dropped into a 2'' deep puddle created by his sprinklers.
Now I recognize that these images may not be suitable for children, much less Treo-toting adults, but there is some good news, and it is testament to the quality of our devices... namely, his Treo still worked! He didn't have to so much as reset it. It just worked. He set it on his desk for a few hours to air out, believing it was turned off, when suddenly his phone rang. No, he couldn't see the screen to know who was calling, but he was able to answer the call. And then he realized that his phone worked, his email worked, everything worked... he just couldn't use the screen. He bought a replacement at a Cingular store that night, hot-sync'd the old one, then hot-sync'd the new one, and presto... everything was better. I don't know about the rest of you Treo-users, but I take some pride in seeing my device dropped, driven over, doused in water, and yet still fully functional.
-Andrew Davis, Associate Treo-Lover (Carlsbad, CA)
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