Palm Treo 800w for Sprint unboxing and hands-on at Engadget Mobile
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jul 14th 2008 8:30AM
posted Jul 14th 2008 8:30AM
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Ditto. Palm is what's at the end of your hand. If you want a Smart Phone go for the iPhone.
iWannaSmackYou
The palm design looks kinda dated and cost just as much as iPhone (if not more), no push email like blackberry.
I think Palm will soon be a roadkill
It's also $70/month cheaper than the iPhone, which is $840 per year cheaper, or $1680 cheaper over the life of a two year contract, so...
iPhone........ NOT!
Perfect song for the Palm Treo
"If I Had A Hammer" - Peter, Paul and Mary
"The palm design looks kinda dated and cost just as much as iPhone (if not more), no push email like blackberry.
I think Palm will soon be a roadkill"
It most certainly has push email with Exchange.
It would look soooo much better in black.
I am so smart! S-m-r-t!
It would look so much better it it were an iPhone!
And now you can't even get that phone on a Sero Plan. I feel bad for anyone who pays $60 a month for that dated piece of sh!t.
1. the 800w is probably the most advanced WinMo phone on the market right now (until september...touch pro!)
2. That $60 plan still makes Sprint way more cost effective than any other carrier...have you even looked at all the features it comes with now? (still love my grandfathered $30 sero plan though!)
This excites me just as much as testicular decapitation!
Sorry, as much as I find your comments witty and amusing, what the hell is testicular decapitation?
Oh crap! I've beheaded my testis!
Qué?
It's sort of an inside joke. There's this horrible local band called testicular decapitation and we made a fake video involving a dumpling, a sponge, red kool-aid, and cream cheese. ;)
I understand decapitation is of the head, lol.
Good fortune? Ha ha, I would love to have had the good fortune of smashing it under my foot. I'm swapping my 750 for an iPhone. Stupid worthless piece of junk.
Funny that the entire feature isn't posted here unlike some of the blant iPhone related "news" you guys have posted lately.
The Palm Treo 800w, direct from 1995!
Square screens suck. Even BBs no longer have that. Keypad looks amazing, as expected.
But the screen, size and res is a huge downer for me.
Wow. It seems that the only people that write comments anymore are complaining about something. Engadget gets blamed if there are too many articles about the iPhone on the page...yet look at how many of these comments are about the iPhone. Seriously. Engadget it at least trying to bring you "other" news and you just can't stop talking about the iPhone. Geez, if you can't stop talking about it, then quit yer bitchin when Engadget covers the topic.
Does anybody else feel like the average IQ of posters here is about the same as a slice of bread? A few good comments get drowned in an ocean of "First/iPhone/Sucks" posts and their replies...
Couldn't agree more.
Im smrtar thin a peese uv bredd!
Nokia, Samsung, and LG (among others) manage to crap out different handsets every day. WTF is this piece by Palm? It tooks them this friggen' long to release this piece of trash which looks like a Centro with a bigger keyboard... plus it's running WinMo6!!!
"Crap out" is exactly the right term. Quality takes time.
This phone still better (and fater) then most win mobile phones out there and it will do everything the iphone will. I know the look is a little dated but i for one still want a real keyboard to typing. Go looks at it at a store this thing moves way faster then a touch or Q9.
Wuuuuu! Hellooooo early 90s!
Goodbye Palm!
You must not have been born yet in the early 90s, because there
were barely even cell phones or internet back then, much less a
device like this.
YEY Shitty Palm., with a recessed screen. I thought recessed screens were so 2006...what with the HTCs and the Apples and the RIMs.
*The Blackberries.
This is not a terrible looking device. It's actually kinda sharp.
But, unlike the HTC TouchFLO 3D interface or the Samsung Omnia's customized interface, this thing has relatively barebones Windows Mobile, which just plain sucks. It's a 10 year old OS.
If you could get Android on this form factor, we might be talking. But barebones Windows Mobile is no longer competitive compared to OS X mobile, the upcoming Android, or HTC's innovative customizations to WinMo.
okay wuts all these omplaints, dude treo users don't get palm for looks geez, its concentrated on users who needs it for work. In terms of functionality it has everything, decent cpu, gps, camera, a very nice qwerty keyboard and winmo 6.1. And stop complaining about winmo 6.1 it may not look as pretty compared to mobile osx, it works fine as long as you control how many apps you are running. i am not a palm fan and I am going to hit up the 3g iphone, but i see most of these comments as meritless. Go back to your bridges trolls.
You know, I agree with most of what you said, but it doesn't help you to get your point across when you start your comment with, "okay wuts all these omplaints, dude treo users don't get palm for looks geez, its concentrated on users who needs it for work."
Just saying.
Troll
This thing is almost the exact same size as the Treo 700w from 2005. Unbelievable. FAIL.
Charles well said, win mobile is good for business uses, Iphone trolls should pls understand that some people out there actually do work more on their phones and the iphones dosent cut it in their world. The palm is good for what it advertised for, though they should ve gone the route of HTC, Samsung on their customize interface. Win Mo UI is plain FUGLY
That's the fuglyest $600 phone ever. HTC touch pro FTW!
I SOO TIRED OF ENGADGET POSTING ANYTHING BUT PALM NEWS! THERES LIKE 4 ON THE WHOLE PAGE..........FAIL!
Yeah, I mean look at this page:
http://www.engadget.com/supersearch/?q=palm&sort=date
Crazy!!
SCREAMING COMPLETE NONSENSE IN BROKEN ENGLISH...FAIL
What do you do when your contract's up, it's new phone time, you're sick of Sprint, you deplore Verizon's customer service, and you love the iPhone but need a keypad?
This 800w makes me sick, but I think I may buy it . . . and then cry and vomit and shower in intervals.
Why do you talk shit about this phone?.
"its from 1995, hahaha im so funny"
It has the same specs that the best phones out there. the only diff between this and touch pro is the proccessor and screen size. Plus, this one is cheaper and has Palms superb qwerty keyboard.
Somebody pre-ordered this piece of junk...
This Palm Treo 800w couldn't carry a BlackBerry Bold's jockstrap. That's why RIM rules the smartphone market (although not for long). Palm rules, well, nothing. End of story. Next.....
Fugly
really is this all that Palm can come up with now. they have had basically the same phone for the last 6 years!!!!!!!!!! NO type of inovation!!!
This is a joke, I thought the 800w was gonna be something new, NOPE... The screen isn't even flush.. how old is that. I'm not giving up my Sprint touch for this thing. The only positive thing here is the Keyboard, everything else is a waste. The screen is fugly square ewwww.. @ square screens . com. lol...
I know people hate to realize it, but they really should, the iphone looks and performs so much better>>>>
I would say it might be worth the cost if palm would finally come out with their "so-called" upcoming linux based OS. I was really looking forward to getting a linux based treo,.. looks to me like it wont happen though. If this 800w is the best palm has so far, I'll probably get an iphone.
Like all other Palms despite the inane comments on this sites, it will be ideal for business and sell loads.
For Calender, Email , Contacts WinMo6 is great plus document veiwing and editing, thounds of apps.
Plus the form factor is proven.
A great little phone IMO now all we need is a Palm OS version
PS i use an i phone and not being able to edit docs is a complete pain, so much so i would swap it for one of these in a flash.
Allow me to sum up the review in advance by quoting David Byrne: "Same as it ever was."
Have you even seen 700wx and 800wx? 800wx is really neat, smaller/lighter in size compared to brick 700wx.
Honestly,
I have the iphone and i'm not so impressed. The Treo would be great if the thing worked well. (I had a treo 700w and it kept crashing) So if they iron that issue out it'd be pretty awesome.
I like the engadget site, but the blog comments that people are posting sound really really biased pro-apple and there just isn't much thinking going on before people post. "Ditto. Palm is what's at the end of your hand. If you want a Smart Phone go for the iPhone." Wow that's so brilliant. I'm glad that apple has such intelligent people buying their products.
I browsed the app store yesterday and the apps were really terrible. At least my phone can now sound like a lightsaber. That's really useful for business meetings I'm sure.
Not TOO bad, but I'd rather take it in Palm Os fashion personally, WinMob sucks, and yes, I have an iPhone...I'm just sayin ;-)
Faslane
How come the iphone unboxing is carried on engadget, but they refer everyone to engadget mobile for the Treo 800w unboxing?
Why can't palm make a smartphone with a touch screen that is flush with the casing? The iPhone's screen is flush with its casing. I had 2 treos and the corners and edges of the screen were dirt magnets.
I love my Palm 800w. It has everything I need. There are a few bugs (so does the iphone), but I'm sure there will be software updates. As far as the iphone goes, Palm is much better. I've had both and Palm 800w is far more superior. The only thing iphone has is good marketing. Palm needs to learn how to market their products better.