Here's a photo of my newly acquired Palm Treo 650. I got this secondhand unit for only P9,500 last July 21 in one of the stalls in Greenhills. (Photo courtesy of my friend Bing)

Here’s a photo of my newly acquired Palm Treo 650. I got this second-hand unit for only P9,500 last July 21 in one of the stalls in Greenhills. For those who are not familiar with Palm products, the Palm Treo 650 is a cellphone, personal digital assistant, portable MP3 and video player, digital camera, ebook reader and “game and watch” in one.

You could also use it to write and edit documents, send and receive e-mail and browse the Web. It has a full QWERTY keyboard (parang sa computer), speakerphone, infrared and bluetooth (but no WIFI).

Here are more information that could probably convince you to swap your cellphone that keeps on freezing (Ano ba yan, nag-hang na naman?) with a Palm Treo:

Since I always write time lines at work, here’s my Treo’s (thanks to Twitter):

July 21, 2007 – Went to Greenhills with Mhay and her parents. We were looking for a laptop for Mhay and a second-hand Treo 680 for me but went home with a Treo 650.

July 21, 2007 – Attended a children’s birthday party. Took photos with my Treo 650. A friend saw my new phone and immediately liked it.

July 22, 2007 – Went to work with my Treo. The said friend decided he’d buy his own Treo the next weekend.

July 24, 2007 – Set up my Gmail account on VersaMail — Treo’s e-mail client. I started downloading GMail messages thru my Treo even if I’m in front of my Internet-connected office PC.

July 27, 2007 – Got the Treo stereo headset I bought on eBay; It’s just the regular headset that looks like those used with portable music players. I still have to save for a bluetooth headset.

Preached about the features of Treo to a college batchmate through Twitter: “[M]as ok tong treo kasi may organizer at e-book reader, may phone at music/video player pa. all-in-one gadget. :)”

July 27, 2007 – Two of my friends went to Greenhills to swap a Nokia phone for a Treo. Unfortunately, they didn’t get a good deal.

August 02, 2007 – Updated its firmware to 1.20 — a very risky thing to do since I was not really sure which updater would work for my unit. I decided to try it, anyway —and thank God, I did it right. It also saved a lot of space on my Treo.

August 4, 2007 – Went to Araneta to buy CDs for the Palm Desktop (with PhotoSync) CD image (ISO file) that I downloaded. Later that day, I successfully installed–after several failed attempts — the software. After that, My PC could also sync my photos, too.

August 6, 2007 – Installed a demo version of Causerie-3.2.5, a chat client for Palm with Jabber (for Google Talk), Yahoo Messenger, MSN, AIM and ICQ.

August 7, 2007 – A friend told me she will buy a Treo 680 this December.

Succeeding updates to this time line will be posted as new blog entry. Of course, you will know if later this year, I will be able to get my own Palm Foleo — a Linux-powered mobile companion to Treo — which already has a number of third party applications even before it is released in the market.

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  1. puntahan niyo lang ang website na palm.com.. tapos klik niyo ung support..actually nahirapan din ako nung una maglagay ng borloloy sa treo 650 ko.. download kayo ng hotsync.. tapos using your cable.. pwede na kayo mag store ng mga dl niyo sa treo 650

  2. Hi! I just bought a Treo 650 from eBay. Could you share exactly how you configured your Treo to be able to send and receive mail from your Gmail account? Also, this unit came already configured to Globe’s MMS and GPRS settings, but doesn’t seem to work. Would you also know how to go about that? Thanks!

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  4. uyyyyy…. kuya, pwede kang gumawa ng talumpati about sa technology… sige na…. by the way .. your website is nice… jejejeje…. gawa ka ha… if ok lang… bukas na kz ipass eh… hahaha joke

  5. hi you said you about a cd in araneta? where? I bought a tungsten without a cd 2nd hand and now i don’t have the cd so i cant sync my notepad… where did you get yours exactly?

  6. bro ask ko lang kung pwede sya mainstallan ng documents to go that can read word, excel file from my pc. may mga files kse ako na kailangan handy. may nakapagsabi kse sakin na dapat ang os mo WinMobile eh. pwede ba to upgrade sa winmobile kesa dun sa palm os or meron naman na document to go that reads word and excel. pati ebooks atleast pwede mabuksan. salamat bro.

  7. sir, it’s my dream to have one too. ask ko kung saang stal mo nakuha yung unit mo. so maybe i can buy din. 24 fanatic kse ako and yun gamit nila. hope you could help me. thanks bro.

  8. it’s still the same..kelangan ko sya bigyan ng sapat na panahon para masaayos..hehe! i still need to know if the prob is my cable o bka yung mismong fone. will borrow another cable from a friend who has the same unit as mine pa.

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  10. hi! I also bought a second hand treo 650. i need to ask questions on how to install applications sa treo..ayaw kase magwork the last tym i tried. and also i bought a 1 mb SD card na hindi ko din malagyan ng applications and ayaw nya magwork sa treo. need help! thanks!

  11. @Poytee: Ok naman dito ang Treo 650. Ereader ang ginagamit ko. 🙂

    @Shari: Sige update natin. 😉

    @WraithStrider: Okay na, di ba?

    @Schumey: Puwedeng-puwede pa po. Mas ok ba sa inyo ang QWERTY? 🙂

    @ajaw: di pa nga bayad ang shares ko eh hehe. 😀

  12. @Markku: Di pa nga pala ako nakakapag-blog sa TXTPower. :p

    @Benj: Sa eBay, 10 to 12K pa ang price eh. Kung gusto mo, yung mas bago, Treo 680–mas mahal nga lang . :p

  13. 9500?! Wow

    Gusto ko narin nyan. Hehe. Kelangan ko kasi ng PDA na pwedeng makabasa ng eBooks – quick guide during preceptorials. hehe