Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

The Treo600 just gets better each day I use it. All my friends are getting them to!. The email is so easy to set up and its really cool to check your pop3 accounts on the move. The internet is also pretty good even Nick had to admit it rendered his pages at www.babooongear.com pretty good. Looks like my laptop will be gouing into retirement.

Another couple of uses for your Treo.

Caroline says that it makes a good mirror for applying lipstick.

Great for finding your way to the seat at the cinema, pity about the bulb blowing halfway through “Intolerable Cruelty” last night.

Taking pictures of hard to describe items hen you are going shopping.

Still the very best feature is the threading of SMS’s so that all messages (inward and outward) are sorted by the persons name.

Latest downloaded application is Cell Plan very good for keeping track of your free minutes (doesnt work for SMS or GPRS data yet)

Google finally sent my very cool blogger hoody as promised at takeover. A picture of me wearing it here taken with Treo600 camera

Last problem with Treo600 was when using Ptunes to listen to MP3’s and no sound was coming out – stupid me had disabled the loudspeaker with the cunning ‘silence’ switch on top of unit. Oh well Tim at www.normsoft.com the makers of Pocket-Tunes sent a smiley and said other people had contacted him as well. However still having problem with earpiece not working with MP3’s although in US manual it indicates that maybe it shouldnt. I find that difficult to believe so will trog of into town to buy headphone adapter.

Its amazing the difference between the USA and UK manuals. The American one has a LOT more detail on how to use and keyboard shortcuts etc.

On the Treo600 after I ticked the option in Preferences/ keyguard / on a call box. The result was I found it impossible to terminate a call (it disables the screen box) I ended up pulling the SIM card out. The manual has no entry for terminating a call.

Thanks to Jay Tamboli on the Visacentral user group

From page 47 of the CDMA manual:

Do one of the following:

Choose Hang Up All [ you can do this with the five-way ]

Press Backspace

Press the headset button (if the headset is attached)