Excellent write-up on the XV6700
Trying to decide whether to go with the Treo 700w (or 700wx), or the 6700 style PDA? There’s an excellent write-up over at jkOnTheRun. Read the write-up here.
I've made no secret how much I have enjoyed using my Palm Treo 700w but there is one thing I demand from my tools and that is reliability. This is especially true for my mobile phone because I run my business from my phone through both calls and email. The past few weeks my Treo has been exhibiting signs that the low memory installed in the device was getting regularly overwhelmed, even though I really haven't been taxing it. Sometimes it would take forever to open the phone window when I wanted to make a call, and even worse when a call would come in while the Treo was retrieving push email the call would just go off into never-never land. The past week things took a turn for the worse as at least four phone calls from my clients just rolled into voice mail without even ringing the phone. I am almost certain this happened when the Treo had run extremely low on memory. Two of those calls were from a client in Scotland who left a message for me to call him back right away. Two expensive international calls that shouldn't have been necessary because the Treo was sitting in my shirt pocket but didn't ring. I can't afford to miss calls like this, the one thing a phone must do without exception is get and receive phone calls but since the Treo is having difficulty doing that it was time to go.
So go is what I did to the Verizon store and largely due to Kevin Tofel's experiences (and especially his video review) I picked up the XV6700. The surprising thing about the 6700 is how it is smaller than the Treo…