Compare Prices : Palm Treo 500

Review summary: When you have a Palm Treo 500, you won't need a laptop to stay connected. This smartphone allows you to email, chat through Instant Messaging, browse the web, organise your tasks, play music, as well as record video and audio chunks. Comes with a ...

Pros: It's half the size of a typical PDA, it doesn't have a touchscreen and it's running Windows. So in what way exactly is this a Palm device? Well, the Treo 500 does comes laden with a bunch of business software, so you can tinker with PowerPoint and ...

Cons: Tapping messages out on the annoyingly rigid QWERTY keyboard is marginally more pleasant than having your fingernails extracted by American Special Forces operatives, but probably not a lot quicker or more efficient. The media player and basic games ...

Verdict: This is a business phone poorly disguised as a business PDA. If you have to pick a Windows Mobile phone for work, though, you could do a lot worse.

Review summary: It says Palm on the front and runs Windows under the hood, but is this latest phone f

Pros: Latest version of Windows Mobile / solid construction

Cons: Looks like a child's toy / terrible camera

Verdict: The trouble is that Palm has always focused primarily on the business market, and while past phones like the Treo 650 and 700 have been very good and praised by reviewers like me, they were grey, boring and lacked the entertainment and media features ...

Review summary: Lately the unofficial dividing on smartphones and PDA devices often confuses inexperienced consumers. And this is not surprising, because nowadays it is impossible to find a clear line between these devices. Apparently, the only thing that ...

Verdict: And so, what is that - a Palm Treo 500 smartphone and what is its target group? First of all this novelty has a sound name which had many fans in the past. Probably, this novelty is partially designed for them. As any device by Palm Treo has a stylish ...

Review summary: The Treo 500v is the entry level model from Palm that gives new visitors to the world of Windows Mobile the opportunity to live the all-round play and work experience without having to fork out on an expensive bells and whistles handset. The Palm ...

Pros: Compact and lightweight ; Has 3G ; A good entry-level WM6 Standard device

Cons: Memory card is behind battery, Triband only, Poor screen protection, Only 64MB RAM, No GPS, No WiFi, Camera capture a little slow

Verdict:    Using this phone on a daily basis for a week, in place of my far more advanced TyTN II, I was surprised at how the things I missed came down in the end to simple expensive hardware add-ons. I missed my touch screen, I missed my GPS and my WiFi and ...