anyone using the Treo 600?

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Carl Roberts - 05 Jan 2004 23:23 GMT

is this still vaporware for Cingular customers?

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tom glaab - 06 Jan 2004 03:49 GMT

Carl Roberts <bought1@mac.com> wrote

> is this still vaporware for Cingular customers?

I've had mine for over a month. Verrry nice, except for the camera,
which is a toy, at best.

tg.

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Carl Roberts - 06 Jan 2004 23:22 GMT

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did you buy from Cingular? what part of the country are you using it in?

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tom glaab - 07 Jan 2004 03:27 GMT

Carl Roberts <bought1@mac.com> wrote

> did you buy from Cingular? what part of the country are you using it in?

I got it directly from Handspring. I'm in the Carolinas DCS market
(GSM-1900) where it works just fine.

When I'm in a GSM-850 market the phone wanders from network to
network... but my Moto T720 does the same thing. In Cingular
GSM-850/overlay markets my phones jump to AT&T wireless and eventually
find Cingular.

On my T720 I can see the preferred roaming list they pushed down; it
says Cingular, CingularWireless, AT&T, Fido, TelCel, then (maybe)
T-Mobile. The Treo doesn't let you see or modify the preferred network
list, but when I drove across Cingular overlay areas it sure didn't
like to use Cingular.

tg.

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mikegold - 08 Jan 2004 00:01 GMT

I've been using the Treo 600 for about two months now. I got it directly
from our firm's Cingular Rep.

NY Market....live in NJ. I love it, great improvements over the 270.

> >>is this still vaporware for Cingular customers?
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tom glaab - 08 Jan 2004 14:14 GMT

> NY Market....live in NJ. I love it, great improvements over the 270.

You're in the T-Mo GSM-1900 market? While I was in that the phone held
onto the signal great. As soon as I moved south into Cingular's
GSM-850 area it started drifting again.

tg.

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bones boy - 09 Jan 2004 14:58 GMT

>is this still vaporware for Cingular customers?

Carl, unless you know a Cingular corporate rep, or are very lucky,
it's still taking a very long time to get this phone thru Cingular.
It's still a very popular phone, and HS isn't keeping up with demand.

Ride on over to www.treocentral.com and look at their discussion
forums ... all of this stuff is talked about ad nauseam.

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Chip - 10 Jan 2004 00:51 GMT

> is this still vaporware for Cingular customers?

I hear that there is an echo problem when using a handsfree earbud. A
software fix to the handset is due this month. This may be delaying cingular
inventory.

Has anyone experienced this?

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tom glaab - 10 Jan 2004 14:38 GMT

"Chip" <chip@invalid.com> wrote

> I hear that there is an echo problem when using a handsfree earbud. A
> software fix to the handset is due this month.

I don't use the earbud much, but have noticed problems on the
speakerphone. The squelch gets a little over-sensitive, allowing too
much background hiss and echo some times.

My earbud problem is pretty much limited to the hang-up button; its
behavior is not consistent (based on my experience with Nokia and
Motorola phones).

tg.

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