Buying a new phone
My Treo 650 is now almost two and a half years old and is getting a bit long in the tooth. It's missing some things like Bluetooth 2.0, EVDO (true 3G), push corporate email (preferably Blackberry compatible), and WiFi.
My new phone MUST have/be: less then $400-$500, Bluetooth 1.2, 3G, push email, take video and webcam equivalent pics, play music, have a slot for microSD or equivalent, play video with support for many formats, synchronize with Outlook, open office docs, open acrobat files, have lots of applications written for it, SMS, have a browser, USB 2.0, removable battery, less than 8 ounces, compatible with Cingular or Verizon, and have many good book readers available for it.
I'd like to have WiFi, MMS, threaded MMS/SMS, Bluetooth 2.0, an instant messenger client, excellent predictive text, GPS, support for voicedial, visual voice mail, youtube, java, flash, and support for stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) headsets.
The top selling smartphone, the iPhone, is missing several of the "Must haves". Maybe a future version will have this stuff. Some of the blackberries get close, as do some of the Nokia Symbian phones. Other honorable mentions are the Blackjack, the Curve, the Pearl, the HTC Touch, E-Ten Glofiish X500+, Treo 750, Treo 755, HP hw6915, Samsung i320, HTC S710, Blackberry 8800, Nokia E90, N75, N90, E62, N91.
So should I just re-up my phone for a year and see where things are at in the industry then? Or get a bandaid phone to get my by, maybe the updated Treo 755 or 750?
My new phone MUST have/be: less then $400-$500, Bluetooth 1.2, 3G, push email, take video and webcam equivalent pics, play music, have a slot for microSD or equivalent, play video with support for many formats, synchronize with Outlook, open office docs, open acrobat files, have lots of applications written for it, SMS, have a browser, USB 2.0, removable battery, less than 8 ounces, compatible with Cingular or Verizon, and have many good book readers available for it.
I'd like to have WiFi, MMS, threaded MMS/SMS, Bluetooth 2.0, an instant messenger client, excellent predictive text, GPS, support for voicedial, visual voice mail, youtube, java, flash, and support for stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) headsets.
The top selling smartphone, the iPhone, is missing several of the "Must haves". Maybe a future version will have this stuff. Some of the blackberries get close, as do some of the Nokia Symbian phones. Other honorable mentions are the Blackjack, the Curve, the Pearl, the HTC Touch, E-Ten Glofiish X500+, Treo 750, Treo 755, HP hw6915, Samsung i320, HTC S710, Blackberry 8800, Nokia E90, N75, N90, E62, N91.
So should I just re-up my phone for a year and see where things are at in the industry then? Or get a bandaid phone to get my by, maybe the updated Treo 755 or 750?