Goodbye Vario, hello Treo

**GTI** · 23rd February 2007

Just sold my MDA Vario II and picked up a nice little Vodafone Treo 750V running the same WM5 OS and with 3G HSPDA enabled (via hack).

Feature-wise it is inferior to the Vario e.g. no wifi, video calling and only a 1.3Mpixel camera and its also about �50 cheaper.. but for me personally its a lot easier to live with and I really dig the one-handed operation and smaller, thinner form factor.

All in all, I'm now one happy camper

**blaggard** · 23rd February 2007

Varios are just a bit too big to be comfortable, Treos are definitely better over all (Blackberry 8*** series are just modded Treos) I however am soooo chuffed with my W950i, great phone, great PDA and a 4gig mp3 player!! I think SE have the market sussed at the moment, best implementation of Symbian (990 is a bit of a lemon compared to the 910) at the moment, Nokia seem to get very close but don't quite manage.

**GTI** · 23rd February 2007

Originally Posted by blaggard

Varios are just a bit too big to be comfortable, Treos are definitely better over all (Blackberry 8*** series are just modded Treos) I however am soooo chuffed with my W950i, great phone, great PDA and a 4gig mp3 player!! I think SE have the market sussed at the moment, best implementation of Symbian (990 is a bit of a lemon compared to the 910) at the moment, Nokia seem to get very close but don't quite manage.

If the W950i had a QWERTY keyboard I would definitely be interested because I love the small form factor, however I might need a little more convincing re: Symbian, I've had two P9xx phones and couldn't stand them because of their half arsed Symbian OS.

The best smartphone OS IMHO is Palm OS, followed by Windows Mobile and then Symbian.

**stargate** · 23rd February 2007

Biggest issue I have with Sony Ericsson's at the moment is that they dont make a HSDPA handset.... They have got most of the rest of their shit together, with good music performance and generally pretty nice phones, but lacking HSDPA would be a killer for me.

As for the Treo - I just don't like the look of them at all (or blackberry's of the Nokia E61, etc). I hate the full keyboard being always out (although a normal number pad would be nice). A thinner Vario II would be my ideal, with more memory built in for the OS/ Apps that don't like playing from memory cards too well, etc. I could actually skip the Wifi as I find I hardly use it with the web'n'walk tariff I'm on, so roll on thinner Vario's I say.

I just don't get why sooo many people seem to like those qwerty keyboards out all the time. makes the phone too wide/ reduces screen size

**GTI** · 23rd February 2007

Originally Posted by stargate

Biggest issue I have with Sony Ericsson's at the moment is that they dont make a HSDPA handset.... They have got most of the rest of their shit together, with good music performance and generally pretty nice phones, but lacking HSDPA would be a killer for me.

As for the Treo - I just don't like the look of them at all (or blackberry's of the Nokia E61, etc). I hate the full keyboard being always out (although a normal number pad would be nice). A thinner Vario II would be my ideal, with more memory built in for the OS/ Apps that don't like playing from memory cards too well, etc. I could actually skip the Wifi as I find I hardly use it with the web'n'walk tariff I'm on, so roll on thinner Vario's I say.

I just don't get why sooo many people seem to like those qwerty keyboards out all the time. makes the phone too wide/ reduces screen size

I can't text for shit, so I'm limited to phones with a Qwerty keyboard, and out of all the smartphones on the market none of them have implemented a keyboard which I've found statisfactory. My Vario II has the slip out one which means you need two hands to support the phone and type, the MDA Pro has a clamshell design which makes it huge and the P910 had a keyboard on the flip which was tiny, uncomfortable and generally crap.

You'd think I would have learnt by now... I've had 4 Treos 180>600>650>750 and although I may try out other phones in between, I always find myself coming back to the same tried and tested forumula

**blaggard** · 24th February 2007

I have to admit I would prefer qwerty but the handwriting recog is so good I don't really miss it. I started out on Psions before they had qwerty but loved the 3 and 5 series for thumb typing. I have to disagree about symbian, again coming from Psion I still think the UIQ is better than Nokia efforts, I always prefer a PDA phone to a phone PDA though.