Well, my days with Treo 750v is over and actually I have a few choices to replace the beautiful Treo :D. The first one is Blackberry 88xx. There is a blackberry-hype in Indonesia right now. Every young, old, man or woman is eager to have this berries which compete the Apple's mighty iPhone. I have an interest for this Huron series since they were first launched. The size, the qwerty seems to match my needs perfectly. My cons are that it lacks 3G/HSDPA connectivity and lack of multimedia features of course.
Then the winner is an outdated-pda-phone manufactured by HTC with code name Universal. There are 3 famous variant. Dopod 900 is the one which is legally sold in Indonesia (maybe South East Asia), O2 XDA Exec by O2 in Europe and T-Mobile MDA Pro by T-Mobile in USA. I looked over hundreds of the stores in Jakarta and found around 15 Dopod 900, 5 T-Mobile MDA Pro and only 3 O2 XDA Execs second hand's item in ITC Roxy, ITC Roxy Square, ITC Kuningan, and ITC Cempaka Mas. Sadly all the 3 XDA Exec were in awful condition. The first one have a crack in it's stylus holder, the second one is using extended battery without its original battery and the last one was too pricey for a five-years-old phone. I could get a second hand iPhone (2G) on that price. Well to make it short, I finally got the phone from the famous forumponsel.com :D
DESIGN
The design is quite nice. You could swivel the screen and use it in the portrait mode like an ordinary PDA or just open the clamshell and use it like Nokia communicator series. It has big thumb-qwerty-board that really comfort to use. It also has 5 another hardware button along the side of the body. Two is for receiving and ending a call, one for camera button, voice command and backlight setting. All could be customized to our needs via Setting.
It also has a stereo speaker output and 3.5 mm standard audio jack and also a volume controller in the side of the body. At the back cover we could find a 1.3 megapixel camera which I found very useless because all the pictures taken with it has too much noise in the result. Since it is a 3G phone, it has a Video Camera near the LCD screen which could also used for taking pictures.
The black colour is the reason why I choose this rather than the Green-Greyed Dopod or the Pale-White T-Mobile MDA Pro. The stylus is well placed and have a nice built. It also has an USB port for charging and also data sync and an SDIO slot.
PERFORMANCE
Using WM6.1 - Tomal ROM, the phone is quite stable and fast. After I installed tons of apps the phone need a soft reset once a day. But not a big deal though. The VGA resolution display will give us the best details of every image produced and it's also very helpful when browse the web and compose email. I could use this phone to substitute a Portable Media Player due to it's screen size and capability.
The custom ROM WM 6.1 will make the phone lack the Video Call feature which also not a big deal for me. It has built in Wi-Fi 802.11b/g which is very useful and also 3G data connection. The WM6.1 also give us the threaded SMS similar to Treo's. The preinstalled applications are just the standard WM6.1 would give such as MS Office Mobile, Solitaire, etc. The task manager is also neat. I don't need to install another taskman in this phone. I also install Slick for instant messaging and TCPMP Media Player. Lots of games is also available to be played in this phone.
There are few cons about this phones and the most disturbing one is the battery lifetime. The standard battery won't last me for 20 hours a day my usage of course. So I should charge the battery very often. The other cons is that this XDA Exec is very very very very bulky that if I were using hard-case or silicon case Iit will feel like bring a brick in my pocket.
Anyway, basically it can do all Treo 750v can with the extras wi-fi and VGA display.
Then the winner is an outdated-pda-phone manufactured by HTC with code name Universal. There are 3 famous variant. Dopod 900 is the one which is legally sold in Indonesia (maybe South East Asia), O2 XDA Exec by O2 in Europe and T-Mobile MDA Pro by T-Mobile in USA. I looked over hundreds of the stores in Jakarta and found around 15 Dopod 900, 5 T-Mobile MDA Pro and only 3 O2 XDA Execs second hand's item in ITC Roxy, ITC Roxy Square, ITC Kuningan, and ITC Cempaka Mas. Sadly all the 3 XDA Exec were in awful condition. The first one have a crack in it's stylus holder, the second one is using extended battery without its original battery and the last one was too pricey for a five-years-old phone. I could get a second hand iPhone (2G) on that price. Well to make it short, I finally got the phone from the famous forumponsel.com :D
DESIGN
The design is quite nice. You could swivel the screen and use it in the portrait mode like an ordinary PDA or just open the clamshell and use it like Nokia communicator series. It has big thumb-qwerty-board that really comfort to use. It also has 5 another hardware button along the side of the body. Two is for receiving and ending a call, one for camera button, voice command and backlight setting. All could be customized to our needs via Setting.
It also has a stereo speaker output and 3.5 mm standard audio jack and also a volume controller in the side of the body. At the back cover we could find a 1.3 megapixel camera which I found very useless because all the pictures taken with it has too much noise in the result. Since it is a 3G phone, it has a Video Camera near the LCD screen which could also used for taking pictures.
The black colour is the reason why I choose this rather than the Green-Greyed Dopod or the Pale-White T-Mobile MDA Pro. The stylus is well placed and have a nice built. It also has an USB port for charging and also data sync and an SDIO slot.
PERFORMANCE
Using WM6.1 - Tomal ROM, the phone is quite stable and fast. After I installed tons of apps the phone need a soft reset once a day. But not a big deal though. The VGA resolution display will give us the best details of every image produced and it's also very helpful when browse the web and compose email. I could use this phone to substitute a Portable Media Player due to it's screen size and capability.
The custom ROM WM 6.1 will make the phone lack the Video Call feature which also not a big deal for me. It has built in Wi-Fi 802.11b/g which is very useful and also 3G data connection. The WM6.1 also give us the threaded SMS similar to Treo's. The preinstalled applications are just the standard WM6.1 would give such as MS Office Mobile, Solitaire, etc. The task manager is also neat. I don't need to install another taskman in this phone. I also install Slick for instant messaging and TCPMP Media Player. Lots of games is also available to be played in this phone.
There are few cons about this phones and the most disturbing one is the battery lifetime. The standard battery won't last me for 20 hours a day my usage of course. So I should charge the battery very often. The other cons is that this XDA Exec is very very very very bulky that if I were using hard-case or silicon case Iit will feel like bring a brick in my pocket.
Anyway, basically it can do all Treo 750v can with the extras wi-fi and VGA display.
