d3xlabs hands on with the V

Work's been a bit hectic as of late. Deadlines to meet, reports to higher management, forecasted projects to plan for. Sure I'm making noise about it now (cos it leaves me pretty drained by the end of the night; meaning I can't update my blog!) but, I do enjoy my job. Yeah, you read it right. Everyday's a new challenge, everyday's got something fresh to look at. I guess its the nature of my day job.

BUT, I will say this. Having my 750v for 2 weeks now (who's counting anymore right?) I gotta say I couldn't have handled my hectic schedule any better without it! LOVE my treo. Its my day warrior. My personal secretary. I've been wanting to blog this the past few nights, but as usual, the mind was willing, but the flesh was weak. You have no idea how much more you can achieve with a Treo. (yea, yea... the sceptics amongst us would argue that holding a cheapo $100 phone, a digital camera, a notepad and a pen would have pretty much the same effect. Rather than slag those type of people down, I'll just say this, "To each his own")

So here it is, complementing the treo-godfather's take on 750v, a story of my own.

The first thing in the morning, SPB TIME jolts me awake with the loud customizeable mp3 tone I've set. (Importantly, its got "snooze". Ahhh, the best creation in the world if you ask me)

So, after my usual morning routines, I'd settle down to enjoy my oatmeal breakfast, and the TREO is my usual morning companion, telling me what I need to do for the day.

These days, ALL my appointments and schedules are logged into my treo, whether its a meeting at work, a lunch appointment, a reminder to pick up or pass sthg (like a phone) to someone, whether its a bill to pay, what groceries to buy for the house.... you get what I mean.... yup, its ALL in my treo. I can't give any more excuses on missing any appointments or forgetting anyone's birthday now. (The dispensation of course, is if I actually OVERLOOK entering the data INTO my treo). I use Pocket Informant 2007 as my calendar application now. Highly rated with numerous awards from various pocket pc outfits. Hey, with a tag line of "Bring back order into your life. Need to see beyond Today?", who can argue against that?

At meetings, when everyone else is holding on to notepads and pens, there I am armed only with my Treo. I have an arsenal of weapons under my (thumb) control that others are not even aware of (My plan to treo-ize the office has not hatched yet). I've got my Word Mobile, or Notes, to choose from to take down notes, or action points which I need to look into. I've got Excel Mobile to look at reports which I've saved into my 1Gb mini-SD card. Of course Pocket Informant is there when I need to look at calendars or set a date / schedule for another meeting. I've got a Calculator. Heck, I can even record voices if wanted to. In my office, if it gets too quiet, (or ironically if I need to focus when it gets too noisy), when others have their iPods plugged in, I've got my Windows Media Player to keep me satisfied. I can even watch movies with it if I wanted to! But hey, I don't get paid to watch movies at the office.

By the time I'm on my way home, the Treo's not even half as tired as I would be. Battery life's good with usually slightly over a quarter drained after a long day.

At home, with my kids still in their early years, the camera / video on my Treo is more than enough to quickly snap those "kodak moment" shots. Good thing they can pose pretty well at such a young age too! And even they know my Treo has photo albums stored which they can view photos of themselves after each shot. And with my 1Gb mini-SD, space is NOT an issue at all. Here are some samples of the camera quality. Perhaps not the best, but hey, if you want clear print copies, use a digicam. 750v's camera is ideal though for thumbnail shots to attach to my contacts, which I have on my "Today" screen (just one of the cool features of the 750v)

At night, when the family's asleep, and I want to enjoy a quiet moment alone, who's with me? My treo of course! I've got TCPMP for WM installed as well in my Treo. Meaning, I can now watch full featured movies in any format. I've enjoyed many an episode of Top Gear from my Treo and even watched a full movie on it before.

In the weekends, as I usually attend my regular church services, even there my Treo doesn't fail me. I've installed PocketBible, with various editions for comparison too. Searching for any books or verses has never been any easier. Coupled with Word Mobile, I'm also ever ready to take down notes.

All this time, I've talked about only the functions I use on a daily basis. (Note: I don't usually play games on my Treo). I have also not mentioned other Treo features such as the phone, the sms/mms/email OR the internet features. They are simply amazing to say the least. No complaints. Phone call quality is clear with great reception. Threaded chat for sms's is FANTASTIC, (c'mon... tell me, what better feature IS there out there?) For email, my Gmail is currently set up for quick downloads too at a push of a button. I've also installed Windows Live messenger and Verichat on my Treo, (which I'm currently testing now). MSN all day long... yup, you get the picture.

It has really been so easy using my Treo, the "one device to rule them all". This is truly the only device anyone will ever need. Being a Palm OS user, now Windows Mobile, I won't influence you on which OS you should or should not use, but I will say this, Get a Treo. My brother in Australia has recently bought a Treo 650 too (which I FULLY recommended of course). Last I heard, he absolutely loves it. I keep telling him, he has not discovered the full potential of his Treo yet. I'll have to sort him out when he gets back here on holiday soon.

Last but not least, all I'm waiting for now, is for tangible protection for my Treo. My Vaja iVolution is on the way! Been tracking it online past couple of days now. Its flying around somewhere in US as I blog this. Once it arrives, my Treo will be c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e.