Palm - Treo 755P Cell Phone Review

I actually got the Treo 775p as a hand-me-down from my mother in law who had a lot of problems with the phone and wanted something simpler. I'll be honest, I thought she was just technologically inept, but actually this phone seems to have a mind of its own.

First, the things I like about it. I love the qwerty keyboard, the touch screen (with stylus if I need it), and the Microsoft OS. It syncs up well to my Microsoft 2007 suite and I really like the call back log with pretty detailed information. I use the recently called people feature a LOT and it's helpful when I'm in a hurry. I haven't had many problems with caller sound quality and not too many dropped calls (that is, when I am full service - otherwise it's not the phone's fault). I like how the text messages are saved as conversations so I know what I last said to the person I'm texting.

Now for the flaws. When I accidentally let the battery die, the phone doesn't ring anymore. It will vibrate, but since I don't keep my phone in my pocket it's not very helpful. Every time this happens, I need to factory reset. Speaking of that, sometimes it spontaneously factory resets. I have learned to sync often. The battery dies quickly, and sometimes it seems there is very little warning. Customizing ringtones was a pain in the butt (but if you don't do this, no problem for you). It took a lot of trial and error to get it going.

Oh and it took me awhile to figure out how to sync it to my computer using bluetooth, it's not all that straightforward.

It is a pretty tough little phone though, I've dropped it a bunch of times and spilled water on it and it still works. If you can get over this phone's little quirks then it's a pretty good one.