[cychan]

Just got a Treo 750v and installed BB connect and everything work find. The setup is so easy it only take less than a minutes to complete.

I think the Treo 750v is the real BB Killer. Although it is just a WM5 device. Palm do beef up the UI and you can really use it with one hand. I just drop my BB 8707 and use this Treo as my main phone now.

[thielsa]

I'm very interested in switching back to a Windows Mobile device. I'm curious if I can activate my BES service at work over the wireless network similar to how I activated my 7130c. Also, I'd be curious to know what synchronizes wirelessly (calendar, e-mail, addresses, to-do's). Any input from a 750 user using BES would be appreciated.

[bertiebassett]

Originally Posted by thielsa

I'm very interested in switching back to a Windows Mobile device. I'm curious if I can activate my BES service at work over the wireless network similar to how I activated my 7130c.

No

Originally Posted by thielsa

Also, I'd be curious to know what synchronizes wirelessly (calendar, e-mail, addresses, to-do's). Any input from a 750 user using BES would be appreciated.

Email & Calendar Only.

I suggest you read the connect FAQ

BlackBerry Connect - BlackBerryFAQ

and whilst I haven't specifically used connect on treo750 I have used connect on WM5 devices & the only s/w stack released by RIM is the 3.6 version which is what sets the limits, not the device.

[NJBlackBerry]

So the Treo 750v is the BB killer. I thought it was the Treo 650 that was the BB killer. Or the Chocolate. Or was it the Dash? Or the Motorola Q?

It is so hard to keep track of the BB Killers.

[bertiebassett]

Originally Posted by NJBlackBerry

It is so hard to keep track of the BB Killers.

'specially the ones that crawl windoze mobile..

[NJBlackBerry]

Or the even slower Symbian OS. I really liked the Nokia E61, but it was so slow...

[cychan]

To be honest, although I said the Palm Treo is a BB killer. I have 3 BB devices 7290, 7130 and 8707 in my hand. I have SE P990i M600i and also a Nokia E61 as well. None really can beat the BB device. The problem I have is I need to use Chinese and our beloved BB devices just cannot support it. I try all the others which support Chinese and the Treo is the only one that can really replace the BB devices.

[J004894]

Cychan:

I also have a 750v with BB Connect. However, the BB Connect service disables itself, suspends or just wont plain connect (I do get connection sometimes).
Yours seems to work fine......any hints?

[mendes9]

I tested a Nokia E62 with BB connect. BB Connect 4.0 support is coming 1st quarter of 07. E62 was a nice toy.. but the genuine BB is just an efficien, reliable, machine.

[jibi]

Just to drop in on this thread, I received a 750v this morning. For someone switching from extremely active use on a BlackBerry 8700g and BlackBerry Pearl/8100 and never having any experience with a Treo or non-BlackBerry smartphone in the past, I must say that I'm not impressed whatsoever. From the connect-on-demand nature of data connectivity (absolutely horrid, mind you) to the extreme conflicts between standard Desktop Manager and Desktop for WM to the lack of compatibility with Outlook 2007 (or maybe those errors were simply because of the BDM conflicts... hmm). I've just now gotten BlackBerry Connect to work (I think - let me go test it right quick) - this is roughly 12 hours after I removed the device from the shipping packaging.

Anyhow, my first venture away from Waterloo's finest has not been all that promising. More to come later, maybe.

[mcapiro]

I would have to agree with jibi's assessment thus far. Just received by 750v about two days ago and got BBC up and running with little problem. Problem is that even trying to get my weather app to update requires me to manually suspend the BB connection in order for the weather app to connect to the "normal" internet connection. So far I'm thinking that this is just more work than it's worth. The pearl did most (I know, not everything) that the treo can do, and in my opinion, did it better. I'm going to give the 750 a few more days before I completely revert back to my pearl.

[jibi]

I'm starting to get used to mine, but in reading some past reviews of WM5 and the blanket statement that it takes 10 steps to do any single task... well, I'm beginning to think that it's true.

[rjharary]

Hows the battery while using 3g? I had a blackjack and the battery was awful! I had to switch to edge when not using internet... big pain

[jibi]

Originally Posted by rjharary

Hows the battery while using 3g? I had a blackjack and the battery was awful! I had to switch to edge when not using internet... big pain

I'm on T-Mobile, so no 3G for me... but I would think it'd be similar to the BlackJack.

[thuggin]

Originally Posted by jibi

I'm on T-Mobile, so no 3G for me... but I would think it'd be similar to the BlackJack.

I think battery life is horrible no matter what coming from the 8700, but much worst on 3G with my 8525. On 3G I can only go till about 4 hours on a single charge. With 2G (this is my first day with the band switch), but I will most likely get about 8 hours on minimal usage (no web surfing, BB Connect on constantly).

[tankee531]

where to download the BB connect for Treo 750v?

can't find it on Palm SG website

[barneyrubble43]

Try The palm website, go to the Treo 750v homepage, click the blackberry connect link


I've had my Treo for about a week now - and I must say I love it. I've been a user of BB for about 2 years, and Windows mobile for 7 years (in it's various incarnations). I think the Treo is, overall, the best device of the lot "for me".

My requirements are:

Decent Browser (Opera)
3G
Blackberry mail (Of some form)
Runs Tomtom navigator
Runs Ewallet
Runs listpro

The 3rd party software for the WM devices is superb. The device seems pretty good so far, and the one handed operation is a first for Windows mobile too. Up to now you've been expected to use the stylus as well.