Treo, Treo, Treo - Did I mention that I really love my Treo phone? Well I must have mentioned it a lot at work. Three of my fellow lawyers have bought the Treo 300 based on my rantings. All of them are using Sprint, and have gotten good deals by buying the phone through Amazon (or by haranguing the Sprint managers with the prospect of returning the phone and buying it through Amazon).
My latest discovery (last night) was getting the SMS system to work to send short text messages. Very cool. I also talked to a fellow last night who has had a Treo for awhile (he's a manager for a couple of well-known bands and travels a lot). He said he loves the Treo and has only two complaints. First, the need to keep track of the battery life (which he solves by being careful to have a charger around when he travels); I agree this is true, but it's not a big deal if you are careful (and besides the phone is so useful I don't care). Second, he said if the device crashes and needs a hard reset (which is rare) you have to return it to the manufacturer because it loses all of the settings, which include the ones that make the phone work with the cellphone provider. I think it's possible you wouldn't have to return it and could reconfigure the cellphone yourself, but it obviously would be a huge pain in the behind. He said it happened to him once when he had the phone with Voicestream, but he's had no problem with Sprint. I have had to do a couple of soft resets, but that's not big deal. Hopefully, I won't have to suffer through anything more than that.
There is one other issue with the Treo, at least for attorneys. You often can't bring a cellphone into court, even though most courts will let you bring in a PDA. So, if you need your calender information you might be stuck without it in certain courts. Interestingly, the Atlanta federal court that I just visited did allow cellphones and computers, which is a big no-no at all of the federal courts in Louisiana. Some lame excuse about security, apparently.
