Treo 800w Review Roundup

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Treo Central has a Treo 800w Review Roundup page that’s worth looking at if you want a second opinion after reading our comprehensive Treo 800w review. The Roundup includes reviews from CNET, Palm Infocenter, Brighthand, Slashgear, and others. Originally published on Pocketnow on July 20, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.

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Windows Live Mesh Now Has A Mobile Page

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GottaBeMobile has posted some images of the new Windows Live Mesh mobile site. You can access the Live Mesh mobile site on your phone using http://m.mesh.com/. The mobile site only gives you access to the news and folders components of Live Mesh. Perhaps the Windows Mobile component will also offer the Remote Desktop features. Regardless, the mobile website version should be compatible with most mobile phones. Originally published on Pocketnow on July 17, 2008. More …

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Race My Treo! – Usability Speed Tests with the Treo 800w

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So you’ve got your shiny new smartphone and you think it’s the best in the world. So easy to use and fast! Anyone can say that, but nobody ever shows any quantifiable data about exactly how easy to use the devices really are. I decided to make up some generic usability speed tests that are intended to help you figure out exactly how easy it is to use your device. Mind you this is not …

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The Treo 800w’s Global Positioning System

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The Treo 800w‘s GPS system is pretty nice. Not only is a custom mapping program integrated with both contacts and point-of-interest searching right in the Today screen, but the hardware is also quite advance and very quick at acquiring your position. The video below illustrates how the GPS works in a number of different programs. Unfortunately, the GPS does not work very well in 3rd party programs like CoPilot Live 7 and TomTom 6. TomTom …

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iPhone 3G – brought to you by Microsoft

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JK-on-the-run has some interesting news to point out about buying the iPhone in an Apple store… The most interesting part of the entire purchase process was seeing the role that Microsoft played in every single iPhone purchase at the Apple store. You see, Apple doesn’t use cash registers or even Macs for the purchase process. No, they use handheld wireless devices made by Symbol, maker of such things, and every single one of them is …

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