Handspring Treo 270 Review

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Handspring Treo 270
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mihaileo.'s Review of Handspring Treo 270 Pocket PC

19th Aug 2002

Overall Rating

1.5 stars
  • Value for money
    0 stars
Good Points

color screen, keyboard.


Bad Points

battery, information support, price.


General Comments

After I bought my Handspring Treo 270 PDA I found that there were lots of problems. This is because there is no place where you can test it before buying and the sellers are not trained for such product. First, the battery does not last as long as claimed by the manufacturer(less than 48h without talking but wireless on). After low battery signal, within 8h I lost all data from the Databook. This means that there is not a back-up battery for protecting your data, but also there is no true that the data will be protected about 2-3 days from the low battery signal. Also, if somebody calls you and you want to push "NO", you have to open the cover and the phone will automatically respond. There is no possibility to set up the phone not to answer automatically when you open the cover, but when you press a button. Also, lack of information about how you add more software on your Palm OS, lack of product information in its delivered handbook. I am really disappointed. The price which I paid ($699) is far away from a reasonable price.

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Members' Comments onmihaileo.'s Review

  • John Gruter. on 10th Nov 2002

    I agree, it's not a phone. Likewise it's not a handheld. It's the sum plus. Having used a Palm for many years, using the treo 270 is no sweat what so ever. The first thing I did was to browse the web for some applications that make the treo behave the way I want it. After the GPRS 1.1 upgrade the apps needed to control the lid are bundled. I agree battery power is less than I expected. Overall I think it's brilliant.

  • Rednex. on 4th Jul 2003

    I do not agree to certain points in above review:
    1) pressin 'up' button allows to drop incoming call in any case. This worked already on 180, and has not changed on 270.
    2) The app that allows to configure Treo responses to pressing jog rocker, opening lid, etc, was available as free-ware already when 180 was out. In 270 it was included in standard SW pack (TreoButtons+)

    But - as correctly mentioned before me - Treo 270 is NOT a phone, and it is NOT a PDA either. It IS both. And it is no surprise it is not proabably so easy to get acqueinted w it for non-tech person. But - compared to other available stuff on the market - it really is excellent.