A Week with my Treo 600

It's been a little over a week since I received my Treo 600. Last week I posted my first impressions in First Day with my Treo 600. This posting will simply add to what I mentioned there. All of those first impressions have held true so far.

The battery life of the 600 is way better than the Treo 300. I was always watching the charge of my 300's battery, and now I find myself not paying attention to the 600's charge at all. I use a Seido USB Sync/Charge Cable at work for syncing the 600, and it ends up fully charging the PDA during its normal usage. That charge takes care of a whole day's usage, including heavy email/Web access along with phone calls.

The speaker on the Treo 600 is loud! It's possible to listen to MP3 files without using headphones. I tried it in my car driving down a freeway and the speaker was plenty loud enough to hear MP3 audio just fine. Of course with the Treo Stereo Headphone Adapter and my Sony Earbuds, MP3's sound even better with great stereo.

Ringtones are fun and easy to deal with. The Treo 600 will use any MIDI ringtone without problems, and there are tons of free MIDI ringtones available on the Web. Since the Treo 600 can directly download files from the Web, something the 300 couldn't do, it's very easy to grab any interesting ringtone I see mentioned and give it a try.

It sure is nice having an SDIO slot on the 600. That was something I really missed on the 300. I use BackupMan to automatically back up my Treo to a 256 MB SD card everyday at 5:00 AM. I also use the SD memory card along with Docs To Go 6 to handle Microsoft Word and Excel attachments in email.

It takes very nice pictures!

Did I mention that the Treo 600 is fast!!!

In summary, for me the Treo 600 remains the absolute best PDA I've ever owned, and that's coming from someone who has owned a fair number of PDAs including an Atari Portfolio, Apple Newton, Sharp HPC-4100, Palm IIIc, Sony NR-70V, Toshiba e740, and a Treo 300.

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I ordered the Handspring Treo 600 Form Fit Case when I ordered my 600. When it first arrived, I hated it and planned on replacing it as soon as the first decent case appeared for the Treo 600. The belt clip on it was way too big, causing the case to stick way out from my belt. The clear plastic front was tacky looking and so thick it looked like it would greatly interfere with using the keyboard.

Well, after living with it for a little over a week, I've completely changed my mind about it. Although it does stick out further than I'd like, the clear plastic cover works great and doesn't interfere with the keyboard at all. The case is ruggedly made and really protects the Treo, but still allows you to use the plug-in headset and even the camera. It's really a very nice case!

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