{"id":1931,"date":"2006-02-06T21:08:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T02:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2006-02-06T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T02:08:18","slug":"treo-700w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/treo-700w\/","title":{"rendered":"Treo 700w"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the local Verizon store today to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/smartphones\/treo700w\/\" target=\"_blank\">Treo 700w<\/a>.  But I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Its not to say its not a great phone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sound quality is awesome &#8211; its loud and clear (finally!)<\/li>\n<li>The proc is pretty quick &#8211; but its not quick enough&#8230; I managed to get it to slow down when switching apps.<\/li>\n<li>The one-handed operation of the 700w is better than any PocketPC phone I&#8217;ve owned (or played with) but its not as slick as the Treo 650&#8217;s UI.<\/li>\n<li>It has EV-DO for data access and I can only sum it up with one word &#8211; &#8220;WOW!&#8221;  Its wicked fast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the upside is that its probably the best PocketPC phone I&#8217;ve seen&#8230; but the downside is that since its on the PocketPC platform its really hard to make it that much different than anyone elses PocketPC phone&#8230; I mean, is there really THAT much difference between one company&#8217;s WinXP machine to another&#8217;s?  (I&#8217;ve not thought so in quite some time.)<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately it didn&#8217;t make sense to buy it at the Verizon store even if I did want to go home with it since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000E6MFXA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com has a $350 (after rebate) price<\/a> on it while the walk-in store had it for $500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the local Verizon store today to buy a Treo 700w. But I didn&#8217;t. Its not to say its not a great phone: The sound quality is awesome &#8211; its loud and clear (finally!) The proc is pretty quick &#8211; but its not quick enough&#8230; I managed to get it to slow down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}