Wow, after 13 months of fighting with five (5) different Palm Treo 700wx's, we finally convinced Alltel to provide us with two (2) brand new Palm Treo 755p's last week and we purchased a 3rd one and they are sensational devices so far.
For over a year we have been missing calls, not being notified of voice mails, randomly going into roaming mode and not being able to automatically update our electronic keys for the Supra lockboxes. Susan hated hers so much that she gave it away and bought plain old phone and went back to her old Palm Zier.
These new phones are thinner & lighter, do not have the stupid stubby antenna and they run the plain old fashioned Palm operating system. Best of all our calls are actually going through to the phones. The electronic keys are automatically updating like magic (at about 4am, because I forget to turn the sound off and they are waking me up at night). The setup was completly painless and took about 30 minutes per phone. We use Agent Office for our group with the data base on a file server and were having issues with the 700's sync-ing properly, the new phones have been flawless synchronizing with the database of contacts. The Supra e-key program opens quicly and connects with the lockboxes in a matter of seconds. It is easy to do one handed lock/unlock of the keypad, set-up of speed dials is a snap. The selection of games standard is disappointing but there are plenty of them available fo rdownload from the web. it even comes with a cool application called Avvenu that allows us to connect to our computer or server back in the office to look at specific files. The Versa mail program works with our POP mail server.
In addition it will function as a modem when we are out at open houses and allow us to connect to the internet, has Bluetooth wireless technology and comes with P-tunes media player and will function as a MP3 player.
I realize that this is probably sounding like an ad produced by one of the phone vendors but this thing is absolutely awesome so far. If you have been having issues with a Treo 700wx, I would visit your local store repeatedly until they give you one of these at no charge. As much as we hated the 700's that is how much we love the 755's.
If you have one of these phones drop us a comment here, we would love to hear from you about your experiences.
Brian Bartley
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