Re: Treo700P (Was: Symantec corporate AV & Firewallco-existence problems)

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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bob Crothers
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:14 AM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: [PCTECH] Treo700P (Was: Symantec corporate AV &
Firewallco-existence problems)

Dan,

I've bypassed the need for public WiFi as long as my cel phone works.

My new Treo 700p      <snip>

Are you talking about using your Treo700p as a "modem" for your laptop?

Yes.  Sprint calls it phone-as-modem; VZW may call it something else.
Basically the Treo is tethered to the laptop.

How are you connecting the two?  Via Bluetooth or usb?

Yes.  Both work, although USB will perform better and use less battery.

How well is it working?

Great so far.  There are a couple of things that seem a little slower
than the 650 (CPU speed is the same), but overall no complaints.  The
keyboard, as with all generations, has seen slight revisions but they
make sense.

How fast is it?  They are advertising that the new broad band is

400-700mps, but what is your experience?

I get from 2-5 bars strength in a normal day; work - commute - home.
Mobile speed tests have varied greatly from 250Kbps to 900+Kbps.
Theoretically 2Mbps is possible but only under ideal conditions.
Real-world: consider it way faster than dialup but somewhat slower than
DSL.

There is still a higher latency than I'd like and that's probably the
biggest culprit.

Summary: Bandwidth: good, latency: mediocre, overall: A big jump over
prior models.

Email syncs, web browsing, and streaming video are all greatly improved.

Did you use a Treo 650?  Was the upgrade to a 700 worth the hassle and

the cost?

Palm III to Treo 300 to 600 to 650 to 700p.  The III was straight-up
PDA.  300 to 600 was a huge, huge leap.  600 to 650 was lots of
incrementals, most notably the screen & speed.  650 to 700p was again a
lot of incrementals. Whether or not one would consider it worthwhile is
an individual decision.  Do lots of data, then heck yes.  Primarily as a
phone or PIM, maybe not unless you need the extra RAM.  Main advances:
about 3x the usable RAM, camera ups from .3 (VGA) to 1.3Mpixels, SD slot
can read cards >2GB (no need to carry an MP3 player), EvDO, improved
Blazer, larger internal database & cache sizes, etc.  The bump in RAM +
EvDO were the kickers for me; all else was gravy.  And being able to do
the Phone-as-modem with decent speed lets me eliminate the corporate
dialup account I've maintained all these years as a fallback when
high-speed isn't available.

I'm ditching Sprint's Business Connection in favor of Versamail &
Exchange syncing via RPC over HTTPS as that will also save the firm some
$.


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