Cingular Palm Treo 750

Once you pull out the battery you will see the SIM slot for the Palm Treo 750. Existing Cingular customers should note that non 64k SIM's in this device will cause problems locking in towers. The main differences are where a 32k SIM card could only hold the "network identifiers" for about 33 networks, the 64K SIMS can hold 80 "network identifiers" What does this mean to you? That your SIM can use more networks that it could before. However you will most likely only notice this if you leave the United States. Also during our conversation with Cingular it is mandatory that you upgrade your SIM to the new 3G Sim cards. If for some reason you are a new customer and purchasing the Treo 750 and they don't give you the 64k SIM make sure you speak to a manager and demand it.

As we move over to the left side of the device you will see three buttons. The two up/down buttons control the volume of the ear piece and the volume of the PDA side of the device. The button below is a button that "out of the box" automatically launches Windows Media Player. At the time of this review we were having problems finding out where we could map this button since our initial instinct was that it would bring up the camera. You also notice the beautiful metallic silver on both sides of the device which definitely adds a "nice touch"

The top of the Treo hasn't changed at all and is sporting a muting switch that definitely is a big plus for all corporate users. I cant remember all the times I was in a meeting that I fumbled around trying to figure out how to shut the ringer off of my phone. With this switch users have one place to go to mute the entire device.

The bottom of the Treo once again hasn't really changed that much at all. One area that really bugs me is having an earphone jack at the bottom of the device? What in the world is Palm thinking when they place a earphone jack at the bottom of the device? But one thing you will notice is that this device has no gap/space issues. What I mean by gap issues is the space between connecting parts. If you click on the photo to your right you will see how well this device is put together. We also give this device a huge thumbs up during our "creak" test. God knows we hate when our devices squeak when we use them!

The right side of the Treo is where the MiniSD slot is located. During our testing we used a 1GB MiniSD card with no problem at all. If you click on the photo you will also notice a RESET button which was very accessible. Previous versions of the Windows Mobile Treo had the reset button below the battery compartment which was extremely cumbersome. Lucky for us we didn't need to perform any soft resets with the device.

The Palm Treo 750 is your typical bare bones corporate converged phone. Palm really wasn't too interested in bundling many applications with this Treo. One very important application they did bundle was Microsoft Voice Command. Voice Command transforms your device into your own virtual personal assistant, letting you use your voice to look up contacts, make phone calls, get calendar information, play and control your music, as well as start programs. We were a bit disappointed though to see version 1.5 running on the device and were hoping to see the newest version 2.0.