Saying goodbye to my treo, but there's a reason.

I liked my new treo 270. It hasn't been that long since I ordered it, hoping to combine Palm features with a GSM set. It wasn't that cheap and I really didn't expect to see it end up at Smashmyphone so quickly.

This is not a review site, so I will not go into every detail. The phone worked well in some respects, but had its flaws.

Some of our models don't like Siemens, so they never felt bad about smashing them. That's a reasonable point of view, especially if you ever tried their sync to PC or Mac. But there have been great exceptions. One Siemens served me well for more than a year, and it was hard to see it go in the hands of our technicians.

Nokia phones are more popular here, their software is generally intuitive. What about the Treo? It's easy to understand, not always so easy to use. In my opinion, not as practical as a Blackberry. Some things were annoying. The keyboard would not light up in the dark in SMS mode, making impossible to write a message at night. Their door breaks, and once in a while the phone would go offline. Those are some of the many small annoyances that convinced me to sacrifice this great phone to the good of Smashmyphone.com.

Of course I could have called tech support, but I never found the numbers online, or wasn't able to reach them. Besides, we're in Europe here, so I don't expect to see a tech support department helping for real :)

This update is coming up in December 2004.