Palmone Treo 650

The PalmOne Treo 650 is the latest smartphone entry from PalmOne, the company behind the venerable Palm Pilot. The PalmOne Treo 650 is at the cutting edge of smartphone technology, combining the functionality of a high-end PDA, a cell phone, and a VGA camera. With PalmOne, a trusted name in the PDA marketplace, the Treo 650 is justifiably popular.The Treo boasts a powerful operating system, the Palm OS 5.4, with 32 MB of RAM and an Intel PXA270 312 MHz processor. In layman's terms: it has a big engine under that small hood. The screen features a whopping 320 by 320 resolution, making it easy to read. There's an expansion slot for SD and MMC-based memory cards. Turning off the phone's ringer is as easy as the flip of a single switch. On the front of the unit, beneath the display, is an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard. On the back of the phone is a loudspeaker and the lens for the camera.The PalmOne Treo 650's phone and PDA functions are designed to work together seamlessly. The PDA applications are user-friendly, and you can use the stylus to copy information from an email and paste it into another document. Because the Treo 650 is a full-functioning PDA device, the user has a whole host of applications to choose from. These include everything from email to document management to games.The cell phone functionality of the Treo has everything consumers have grown to expect from a cellular phone. Polyphonic ringtones, speakerphone, vibrate mode, picture caller ID, and more. The internet browser supports full-size web pages, as well as email accounts provided by a host of ISPs. The lithium-ion battery offers up to six hours of digital talk time, and up to 300 hours of digital standby time.