Palm Treo 680 (Unlocked)

Description

 The Treo 680 is more pocket-friendly than earlier models, making it a very good choice for first-time smart phone buyers. The Treo 680 carries over most of the Treo 650's specs, including its Bluetooth 1.2 and quadband world phone capability. One welcome upgrade is the bump in user-accessible memory from 32MB to 64MB, allowing plenty of room to download one of the thousands of Palm OS applications. The Treo 680 supports SD cards up to 2 GB for storing music and other files. When it comes to e-mail, the Treo 680 is a very capable device. It supports XpressMail, Exchange ActiveSync, and Good Mobile Messaging. Built-in wizards make it easy to set up personal accounts using AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, and more. The included copy of Documents to Go 8.0 supports Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, as well as PDFs. The EDGE-enabled Treo 680 surfs the Web at a pretty good clip, thanks to Palm’s smart Blazer browser. n addition, Blazer has been updated. It includes new caching rules making it operate faster. It also includes new viewing modes. The smart phone does have integrated Bluetooth 1.2 for use with wireless headsets, car kits, OBEX, and dial-up networking. The latter means you can use the 680 as a wireless modem for your Bluetooth-enabled laptop; it's a feature often disabled on other smart phones, so this is a nice benefit of the Treo 680. The Treo 680 supports Dial-Up Networking (DUN) over Bluetooth. This is significant, as DUN allows notebook users to get online by connecting wirelessly to the Treo, which acts as a modem. The VGA camera carries the shutter speed fast enough to capture fidgety subjects. The Treo 680 also makes sharing your photos easy; clicking on the envelope icon after you capture an image presents you the option of sending it via Bluetooth, e-mail, or multimedia message. Anyone on a GSM network can take advantage of it, making the Treo 680 the most accessible smartphone at this price point. While the Treo 680 will invariably be used for business, it's also intended to be a step up for those looking to do more with their feature phones.