The new Palm Treo 700 (I own the 650) is on the way. It will only be available from Verizon to begin with. Much ado is made over the transition from Palm OS to Windows Mobile 5.0. I've used 3 and 4, and I'm really not that impressed. It multitasks better than Palm, which is to say it multitasks at all, but the fuss is being made over the fact that Palm (hardware) is no longer using the Palm software it divorced from a few years back.
I'm terribly happy with the Treo 650. The 700 series does not address any of my complaints with the device (among them: bluetooth reliability, integrated text-to-speech, integrated WiFi, bluetooth sync, wider integrated video tech, better data roaming, keyboard adapter, et al). Most of the new features are in the "who cares" category. I would buy a 650 again before a 700. If you've spoken to me on the phone since February, it's been on my 650. That probably won't change soon.
Madness.
Posted by Jake Allen at September 24, 2005 06:06 PMIs this phone you are talking about one of those newfangled touch phones or is it rotary?
Posted by: at September 24, 2005 09:32 PMActually, it was touchtone that started the whole phone phreaking craze back in the 1970s. Captain Crunch and the gang. I've posted on that before but can't find it right now.
Cloning cellular is really not that hard. The hard part is making it profitable: the fence, so to speak. The other part is that if they want arrest you, they know where you are.
Rotary (pre-fiber optics) has a level of realibility and security that digital signal can never achieve.
Madness.
Posted by: Jake Allen at September 25, 2005 02:03 PM