Second day with this device and I am so in love with it! Navigating the interface with one hand is just amazing and I am such a huge fan of this touchscreen! This morning I loaded up my 2GB miniSD card with digital music and saved a lot of time and effort compared to those media transfer apps from Sony Ericsson and Nokia. I am very humbled from last night's blog post and I do apologize, but I am sure that we all have our emotional breakdowns sometimes.
Believe it or not though, there is one concern that I do have for this Treo that was shipped to me. At the lower right corner of the screen there is a creaking sound that started off as fine but is now downright annoying as hell. There was only one way to solve this issue and that was to buy another Treo 680 from the Palm website and do a comparison. If this newer model doesn't creak then the other one shall be returned to mobileplanet immediately. This may be excessive but I want to settle down with a flawless Treo if I am going to be paying full retail price for it. Otherwise everything else is just peachy and great and filled with sunshine!
One important piece of information I read from an email is that the Nokia E90 is finally priced on mobileplanet.com at $980 and available in mid-July. To be honest I was for a moment interested in the chance to have one, but I am still in love with the Treo. I just cannot believe the ease in which I can navigate the interface of this phone. I am not that big of a techie so the likelihood of having many apps loaded onto this Treo is slim to none. My main priorities have always been about playing music and writing, and this Treo 680 is indeed an impressive contender as a smartphone. I am not one to deny that the Palm OS is ancient and in need of a major overhaul, but to a point it does have a certain amount of charm that stems from familiarity with previous PDA devices. I could never be so fluid in my navigation of the Treo without my past experience with the Palm Tungsten E, Z22 and TX.
Even aside from the creaking on this current model I am truly satisfied and enamored with this machine; even the basic camera has a certain charm that causing me to warm up to it with the pics that I take with it (including the one that I've posted with this blog). As with my new VW Jetta and my Apple products there is finally a sense of contentment in the fact that everything just works as it's supposed to and that feels good. Even if the iPhone and Nokia E90 do attract my attention for a moment the ultimate factor is what I am keeping at the end of the day. At this point I truly believe this factor will be this Treo 680, and my only real worry is the release of a new generation Treo with the Palm OS in the near future.
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