Today the line between smartphones and communicators is almost erased. Treo 650, which will be discussed in this review, for all outward appearances - the communicator, but the manufacturer palmOne has positioned it as a smartphone, that is, focuses on the communication component. And rightly so. I am personally close to the position of palmOne. I also prefer to call the hybrid PDA cell "smart mobile phones", because, first of all, it's a communications device, and only secondarily - PDAs. And it does not matter what operating system they installed and how you enter data. The main thing - it's possible, and c of this point of view of "smart pipes" running Palm OS has no way inferior to Pocket PC. An example of this - the new palmOne Treo 650.
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The first "smart phone", which really impressed me at the time, was a Treo 180. It surprising combination of a fully functional PDA and a modern mobile phone. True, we have these devices have not officially went on sale, so do not have the same wide distribution as in the west. Since then much has changed. Company, Handspring, let out a miracle-Treo, bought palmOne, so the new device in this series, Treo 600, already went under another name. We can not say that this model has failed, but in many ways inferior to the device from the camp of Pocket PC. Doing work on the bugs, the engineers of the world have revealed palmOne Treo 650, which is slightly strengthened the Treo, and besides also became the first officially delivered to Russia communicator from palmOne. Alien Palm OS-smartphone on the background of the variety has become their Pocket PC PDA is a bit aloof, but when you get acquainted with its characteristics, then almost all points except the name of the OS and the amount of memory on board look familiar.
Specifications: - Operating system: Palm OS Garnet 5.4.5
- Processor: Intel XScale PXA270 312 MHz
- Memory: 10MB RAM, 32 MB of NVFS Flash ROM (22,4 MB available)
- Phone: GSM 800/900/1800/1900, GPRS 10
- Screen: 2.44 "(62 mm) transflective TFT, 320x320 pixels, 65536 colors
- Camera: Picture (VGA), video
- Keyboard: QWERTY, 35 keys
- Memory Expansion: MMC / SD (SDIO)
- Communication: IrDA, Bluetooth, USB
- Battery: Li-ion, removable, 1900 mAh
- Audio: microphone, speaker, 2.5-mm headphone jack
- Dimensions and weight: 113 x 59 x 23 mm and 178, the
Compare Ad Treo 650 with its closest competitors out of the camp Pocket PC - Qtek 9090 and Qtek s100 can use the "Compare PDA" in the "Catalogue of the CPC on HPCru.
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| Left to right: Qtek 9090, palmOne Treo 650 and Qtek s100 |
40, or Delivery
Together with a smartphone and a battery to it are available: - Protective Film
- label with the Russian keyboard layout
- interface cable
- Adapter
- stylus
- wired headset
- Software CD
- instructions.
It is a pity that the list was no place for a protective cover - very necessary in view of the fact that the Treo 650 still more phone than PDA.
120, or design and ergonomics
Smart Phone »Treo 650 - this device and smartphone at the same time. Judge for yourself, it is equipped with built-in GSM / GPRS module, touch screen and a hardware QWERTY keyboard - and all the developers have managed to put in Comparative compact body.
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Concept model was developed further to create the previous model - Treo 600. Discover also borrowed from its predecessor only the best. It's no secret that the majority of platforms for handheld Pocket PC family created a ubiquitous Taiwanese firm HTC Computers. Now the "many faces" proizvoditelnitsa switched and the creation of platforms for the Palm OS. At least, Treo 650 was designed precisely in its depths. Evaluation design of these devices - usually a difficult task because of the subjectivity. In most cases, the description begins with the story of a plastic and graceful lines, and eventually reduced to the transfer of control. But we decided to go the other way, collecting impressions of different users, most of which had not dealt with "smart phones". At our first meeting reviewers are not too impressive: "cumbersome, small display, tiny keys, which are even scared to click." Dwell on them in detail. "Bulky" The device actually looks somewhat krupnovato, mainly due to strict design. The front panel is almost regular rectangle with a slight hook at the top and bottom. Two more, do not add the device appeal, detail - a big thick and strong serving an external antenna. However, all is not so bad. One has only to take the Treo 650 in hand and the first negative impression right away. Due to rounding the back cover (which is hidden under the battery), the phone is in the palm of a glove, and overweight is almost not felt. Plastic to the touch leaves a pleasant impression, though the metal casing still would have been preferable. "Minor Keys" Buttons hardware keyboard - not flat but slightly rounded, thereby pushing the buttons will be relatively comfortable, even though that is certainly your fingers are much larger than their size. Moreover, at a certain knack accidentally pressed the surrounding keys - is excluded. However, the keyboard has some drawbacks. First, the keys are harsh, and, secondly, because of small size, they have no place to accommodate the Russian keyboard layout.
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Navigation through the menus and control the device by using a convenient five-way navigation button. "Small screen" Diagonal 2.44 "- is, of course, not 3.5" or 4.0 "for Pocket PC, but for most tasks, and this size is enough. Anyway, about the experience of communicating with the device. The quality of the matrix is consistent with expectations, but more on that below, but for now quickly go through the controls on the Treo 650. The volume of built-in speaker that is placed on the rear panel, two-position adjustable side button, next to which is key-lock the volume level (it is also programmed to launch the player, if you hold).
Of the shortcomings can be noted is not very high speaker volume, especially during a conversation on the street. Situation is fixed Headset (entrance at the bottom).
There is also a universal connector Multi-Connector (as a palmOne Tungsten T5), with which you can not just sync with your PC, but also connect standard peripherals such as keyboard or docking station. Originally made for the SIM card slot, which is not placed under the battery, like most other phones, but in a special niche at the upper end, accessible from the outside, so the card can change very quickly, inserting it into spetssalazki. In the same place and a dedicated hardware switch audio, converted by inheritance from the Treo 600, IR port, SD / MMC / SDIO and well conspiratorial silo.
But hidden under the back cover of the reset button.
In general, Treo 650 has left a good impression as easy to use and easy to manage your smartphone with a set of all the necessary keys for quick manipulation.
90, or a hardware keyboard
One of the indisputable advantages of ergonomic device, which wants to say individually - this is a hardware keyboard is QWERTY. In the Treo 650 device control implemented the concept of one hand. Phone numbers can be entered without using the stylus. In addition, and in embedded in the operating system that applications can run without a pen. True, when applying to third-party applications is not so smooth - not all of them support such management. Often, the keyboard is suitable only for text entry.
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All 35 keys are arranged in four rows, in this connection to the Russian layout, several of them had to assign two letters and enter them through spetskombinatsiyu. Themselves buttons, although small, is quite comfortable. Print speed increases noticeably when working with two hands. Digital panel for quick orientation highlighted in blue. Although dial phone blindly could make a dashboard button, a little more than others. Russification of the hardware keyboard by using stickers. In principle, it is quite obvious - the place to engrave on miniature keyboards simply do not. However, you can not use the label, but to make the engraving on the case next to the keys. Cons stickers - are obvious. Treo 650 - is, above all, telephone, and, therefore, when working with him, you keep it constantly in the hands, typing text or numbers. A label with such intense exploitation is not very reliable option. For example, the test sample, she was peeling off in a week. In addition, when working in low light conditions or complete darkness, lights, just enough for the keys, Russian letters that are on the label is not visible. True, and in daylight they are not particularly distinguished. The size of the letters twice as less English - I read they are very bad. The only hope that in time will learn blind printing. Of the four standard hardware buttons were only two. In addition, since there is no graffiti area, there is no four touch buttons. Partially offset by the lack of them, that the available hardware keys "call reception", "Calendar", "message", "side button" flash.Almost each of them can be hung on the two applications (except the "incoming call" and "side button").
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Invoking a second application is carried out not by holding down (as on Pocket PC), but with additional function keys (like shift register). Similarly, the shutdown button has a second meaning - to lock the keypad, display and hard buttons. By default, when the phone keypad is locked. Remove the unit by pressing the center button five-way navigation button.
Additionally, you can reprogram the hardware button and HotSync, which is located on the cable.
50, or processor, memory and speed
Watching the release of the latest models of handheld computers (running Palm OS and Pocket PC), one can discern a very remarkable feature. Other processors than Intel in the PDA market now is not there. The battle ended in complete victory for Intel, as any guerrilla feeble effort seems prisekaetsya on the vine. By the way, AMD still not looking in the direction of the CCP-monopoly. Good or bad, hard to say. On the one hand, a single standard - it's convenient. However, on the other hand, the lack of competition has no industry does not benefit (in the long run, of course). Remains's hope that competition in the market "more processors does not give the company" slow down "and on the handheld front. Novelty is equipped with processor Intel XScale PXA270 with that of 312 MHz. Operating System Palm OS has never been a particularly demanding on system resources. However, the latest version of Garnet has become much more fanciful. It is not that applications run significantly faster than the previous model, Treo 600. The volume of RAM is 10 MB SDRAM. In addition, the computer has a non-volatile flash memory file system NVFS - the same as a Tungsten T5 and Tungsten E2. This means that the user data, once entered in the CPC will continue even with a full battery. The volume of flash memory - 32 MB, of which 22.4 MB is available to the user.
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According to the results of testing the program BenchMark 2.0, a new device loses only Tungsten T3 and T5, which are set processors with clock frequencies 400 and 416 MHz.
According to the results of another synthetic test, Speedy, new plays and Tungsten C (400 MHz).
If we ignore the binding of synthetic tests, which give only a conditional view of the computer's performance, we can say the following. Work on the Treo 650 - a very comfortable, no "brakes" in almost all applications are not felt. The only application which can lead to problems - it Kinoma Player, and even then only when playing videos with large flows (more than 1Mbit / c).
To compare the results VideoTest with data on previous models, palmOne, we present the results of tests program Kinoma Player 1.5.1. Data for Tungsten E, T2, T3 and T5 were taken from previous reviews.
So, video playback - at the Tungsten T3 and slightly inferior to T5.
150, or display
A good smartphone should be equipped with good matrix. This - a must because the device with a quality display, has a greater chance of success. The fact that the screen - one of the three most critical parameters (in addition to price and design) when choosing a device. Matrix Treo 650 boasts a wide range of brightness, broken into 16 divisions. Moreover, the first division matches turn-off, and the minimum level of illumination begins with the second. It's nice that palmOne remembered that the backlight can turn off the computer. This is a very useful option. Minimum backlight level (second division) allows you to work comfortably in almost any ambient light, except for direct sunlight. I must say that this is a common problem for matrices with TFT transflective backlit. If "communication" with the Treo 650 on the street information, in principle, distinguishable even at turn-off, however, have greatly strain the eyes, so long to work with the CCP in such conditions is impossible. Solve the problem can increase the backlight level to 50%, or turning the unit directly to sunlight, and choosing the correct angle of reflection. In this case, the optimal angle between the display and the user's torso is about 80 degrees. To read the same is generally recommended angle from 0 to 45 degrees. Otherwise, the matrix is a smartphone different natural colors and large viewing angles (about 150 degrees). Treo 650 is equipped with a square matrix of size 44h44 mm. Resolution in this case is 320x320 pixels (0.14 dots / mm). Diagonal Size - 2.44 "(62 mm). This, of course, less than 3.5 "or 4.0", but for the perception of textual information is enough. Anyway, while reading e-books nuisance does not arise.
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50, or the battery
No wonder that when the device runs for two, it uses accordingly. The only pity is that the relationship is not like the Russian folk saying "eating for four, and works for seven." Eat smart, too, for about two. Therefore, as a regular battery used battery capacity of 1900 mAh. Claimed battery talk time - six hours. Realistically, if we use only the Treo as a phone (40-60 minutes of calls a day), the battery lasts for 5 days. When connecting more and PDA features (PIM applications, and two hours of reading books) the battery drained much faster - by noon the day before. But the move to more specific tests.
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With continuous playback of MP3 (192kbps / s) with an SD card battery last for 17 hours. When reading e-books (MobiPocket 4.8, 20-25 characters per line, the scrolling rate of 1 line per second) capacity of the battery enough for eight hours at the maximum level of illumination and at 16 hours and 50 minutes at minimum brightness. When viewing the video results more modest - six (maximum backlight) 15 hours (minimum light). Very, very commendable results, especially when you consider that audio playback was conducted with an external card and not the internal memory.
150, or phone
Phone
All phone functions are assigned to a special application "Phone". The main window of this program is a dashboard dial.
The display then displays the current time, date, the presence of unread email messages addressed to a network operator, signal strength, battery charge, a standard telephone number pad, and quick menu. Except for this last point, all as in a normal mobile phone. On the Quick Menu will dwell. The menu is a five-page, 14 tabs on each. Each of the tabs actually - touch button that can be programmed: "Call History", "panel dialer", "contacts", "speed dial", "message", "e-mail», «web link or one of the applications. In this case, each tab you can assign hot keys function call applications (they are denoted on the right of the name of bookmarks).
Call History usual call history, which stores all incoming, outgoing and missed calls on your phone.
When a call from someone who is available in the address book, phone the screen will give his name and photograph, if available.
Digital panel dialer panel set is available with one-touch or hold the call button. If you hold the keys and displays a list of recent calls log and dialed the phone number.
Contact the standard address book, as close to Microsoft Outlook. Of the nice things is worth noting the possibility of finding the addressee on the first few letters of a name or names, in both English and Russian languages.
High-speed set tab for quick access to the specified recipient.
Message shortcuts for sending SMS messages given to the recipient / s.
E-mail shortcuts for sending e-mails given to the recipient.
Web link to bookmark for quick access to a specific site.
In the last four paragraphs number and e-mail address as well as the web address you can write by hand or taken from the address book. In addition, there Call barring service, automatic dialing, network selection, sound settings and challenges. In general, all as an ordinary mobile phone.
The phone has a good sensitivity, which is important, given that the tests were performed in the Moscow network operator MegaFon. Except for underground communication practically all the time was decent, at least no worse than the SonyEricsson T650. For two weeks the test phone three times spontaneously overloaded, in the search network, right at the exit of the subway. But because this "bug" is manifested not so often, and data loss does not, something terrible in that there was nothing.
Messaging
One program to work with SMS and MMS messages. The application allows you to work with SMS as in the usual (usual for a cell phone list) mode and in the SMS chat mode when the screen the illusion of a continuous two-way communication.
And, while you can maintain multiple chat rooms, and use built-in customizable blanks "quick text" and a set of "gay faces" to make post emotional coloring.
+ Donut hole, or other communication opportunities
In addition to the IR port of your phone has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module. It is unfortunate that the developers of PalmSource can not yet create a Bluetooth manager even remotely resembling a similar program for Pocket PC, the most popular with manufacturers, from the company Broadcom. Will probably have to wait.
Bluetooth for Palm OS has a number of significant drawbacks. There are no security settings and connections of the profiles.
Realistically, you can configure only the exchange of business cards, connect a wireless headset, synchronization with PC via Bluetooth and Dial-up.
Thus, Treo 650 could not connect even to a PDA running Pocket PC.
Search for a wireless headset problems are caused, and the relationship, admittedly, quite decent. True, occasionally there are problems with the loss of contact between the headset and phone, but then, as mentioned above, it can not be helped. Function Dial-up turns the phone into the modem. Thus, you can connect to a Treo 650 through your laptop or desktop PC. However, when the Dial-up will be impossible to use email client and internet browser on the Treo, only on the desktop or Toshiba.
As for Bluetooth synchronization, data transfer rate with it - not very high. In addition, in the process there have been some "bugs". For example, when you transfer a contact in Microsoft Outloook lost photo attached to a contact. There are also problems with the transfer of conventional files. Special zamorochki Palm - you can only pass certain types of files (photos, video 3GPP, MIDI ringing tones).
+ One more hole, or digital camera
Already, no one will remember where it came from fashion to equip a portable digital device built-in camera. However, it all started with mobile phones, then became commonplace cameras PDAs and communicators. Unfortunately, the built-in digital camera is an amusing thing, and so useless. At least not yet. Judge for yourself, the matrix resolution is usually limited to 300,000 points (VGA), rare specimens can boast of 1.3 million pixels. And if they can, the sense is not very much - the quality of images limited to tiny size plastic lens. For smaller pictures, the identifiers in a format your phone somehow good, but for normal photo album in your home - to forgive. While all fundamentally limited form factor. In order to collect enough light, the lens must be large. To obtain sufficient resolution, the matrix must have at least 2,000,000 points. It is also desirable presence of built-in flash. In order for this economy stretched longer, we need rather big batteries. Now add up these three conditions, and you have a dinosaur like the Sony Clie NZ90. But where else have to put stuffing a pocket computer and about GSM / GPRS module is not forgotten. In general, a digital camera in the "smart phone" - it is only a toy. Was no exception in this regard and Treo 650. His "number" allows you to capture pictures in JPEG format with a resolution of 640x480 pixels. File size in this case - from 40 to 150 KB. Agree that for good photos - a bit too little. The camera proved to be a good idea when shooting outdoors in good sunlight.
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However, in low light conditions (in the subway, on the premises) image quality significantly deteriorates.
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Does not shine and the macro. With this lens, it is not surprising.
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The camera's settings allow you to: - change the image resolution (640x480, 320x240)
- choose from two color filters
- include "voice acting" camera shutter
- turn on the date of the picture
- specify how the names of images.
The resulting image can be written in the phone memory, delete, attach to the SMS message or add a minute a voice comment.
In addition to photos Communicator allows you to shoot video (352x288, 176x144) with sound in a format 3gp.
50, or software
First of all, do not forget to put on your device software localization. The fact that the interface is in English, yet not so bad, much worse in the presence of the address book of strange zakoryuchek instead of Russian names. Included with the CD device comes with language. In order to avoid confusion with Russian and English names are given as the original name of the application and its translation.
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List of appendices: - Quick Tour v.2.0
- Bluetooth Manager v.1.0
- RealPlayer v.1.6.0
- SIM Book v.1.0 (SIM Book)
- VersaMail v.3.0B
- PalmOne Blazer 4.0
- Memos 1.2.1 (Notebook)
- Tasks v.1.2.1 (Cases)
- Security v.5.2H (Protection)
- Sounds v.1.0 (Sounds)
- Calendar v 1.2.1 (Calendar)
- Camera v. 2.0.0.38 (Camera)
- Card Info v.5.4.0 (Map)
- Contacts v.1.2.1 (Contact)
- Media v.2.0.0.67 (Media)
- Prefs v.1.4 (Options)
- HotSync v.5.4.0 (Exchange)
- Welcome (Welcome)
- SIM Services v.1.0 (service SIM)
- Messaging v2.0 (Posts)
- Calc v.1.0.1 (Abacus)
- Phone v.1.0 (Phone)
- World Clock v.2.0.1 (Hours)
- Applications v. 5.2H (Application)
- Document To Go
- eReader
- VPN Client Software
- Audible Player
- Java
- Handmark Solitaire
- Zap! 2016
- Adobe Reader
The quality of the translation interface built-in applications will not dwell on, suffice it to say that the transfer of some names sound a little funny, for example, "scores". Honestly, did not immediately guess that this is a calculator. Let us dwell on some applications.
PIM applications (Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Memos)
All PIM programs on the Treo 650 can exchange data with Microsoft Outlook. Moreover, the conduit for these purposes is included and installed automatically when you first install Palm Software, so you can forget about a headache when working with Outlook. With all due respect to the Palm Desktop, Outlook still has great potential and was almost ubiquitous. However, opponents of the program can perform data synchronization and using familiar Palm Desktop.In other application interface has barely changed since the Tungsten T5 and Tungsten E. Let us dwell on the most interesting of them. Media program for viewing images and video clips.
Media allows you to rotate the image, dobvlyat audio, text commentary, as well as a handwritten inscription directly above the photo.
SIM book management program data on your SIM card. Security Data security by password, the device lock and hide personal data. Nice Blazer web browser with ability to display html-pages in one column that spans the width of the screen.
- 50, or the price
Price Treo 650 today ranges between $ 600 and $ 639. Money - considerable, but with the price of smartphones from the Pocket PC is quite comparable. However, if palmOne is going to "win the peace", the price for this device should be lower than similar products on the Pocket PC. For the same price, many users will prefer the direct competitor Qtek s100.
Total
From any phone, you need three things: a sure reception of calls, solid battery life, ease of administration (including the keyboard) and the lack of a "brake". Some users may still need a polyphonic sound and a digital camera. In the case of the "smart phone" to this list we must add a small size (compared to the CPC), the ability to connect to the Internet, the availability of PIM applications (with a normal sync with your desktop Outlook), high-contrast display a reasonable size, and wireless communication modules. All this for the Treo 650 is. It is not always adequately implemented (as is the case with Bluetooth and a digital camera), but there is. So according to his ability Treo 650 is not much different from the "smart phone" based on the Pocket PC.
Cons: - unfortunate label with Russian layout
- lack of bundled protective cover
- Bluetooth Manager c Disabilities
- lack of Wi-Fi
- lack of voice dialing
- somewhat inflated starting price
Pros: - relatively small size
- convenient control (control with one hand)
- Built-in QWERTY keyboard
- high performance
- decent battery life
- Bluetooth
- quality communications
- good location slots for SIM cards.
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