Treo 680 in the house

by Volker Weber

After having used the Nokia E61i for a couple of weeks, I was a bit shocked when I set up the Palm 680 that came in the mail today. What a fat mother. It's not heavier than the Nokia, and it is not bigger. It's just not as thin.

Essentially the 680 is like the 650 with the antenna stub removed. Same body material, same screen, more memory, new phone application. It is by no means a "must update" from a 650.

Having used the 750 for a while there are a few things I noticed immediately, apart from the better screen resolution on the 680:

VersaMail let me set up ActiveSync with the Exchange Server but so far new messages are not pushed down to the device. Need to install this update.

More as I test TomTom on the 680.

Comments

I am very happy with TomTom 6 on the Treo 680, it looks very good even on the small display (compared to TomTom 910 I used for a few days):
http://flickr.com/photos/jollyjake/497470628/

I found some minor bugs e.g. TomTom asks me if I'd like to switch on Bluetooth during startup if it is disabled but will not find the BT GPS receiver later, so I have to quit TomTom, disable/enable BT and then start it again. The keyboard support ist not perfectly implemented, too---you can enter the characters of your destination with the keyboard but are not able to navigate through a list using the scroll buttons or select an entry using the "middle" button.

However, the TomTom application seems to run much faster and smoother than on the Tungsten E2 I've been using before. Make sure you have the 12V car power adapter with you, otherwise the Treo will run out of battery after about 3 hours of navigation.

My TomTom version did not come with a US voice (I really like those on the TomTom 910) and I'm still sometimes confused listening to that nice female voice describing distances in "yards" (in the meantime I managed to think in miles, one thing at a time!) and telling me to "[...] take the motorway" in proper British English.

Jean Pierre Wenzel, 2007-06-12

"A mile a minute" is a pretty good rule on highways.

Volker Weber, 2007-06-12

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