{"id":146,"date":"2006-01-13T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:55:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T05:55:50","slug":"palm-treo-650-vs-700-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/2006\/01\/13\/palm-treo-650-vs-700-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Treo 650 vs 700 Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC World has a rundown on the differences <a href=\"http:\/\/pcworld.com\/reviews\/article\/0,aid,124348,00.asp\">between the Palm Treo 650 and 700 phones<\/a>, which are PDA\/Phone hybrids from Palm.  The 650 runs Palm OS, and the 700 runs Windows Mobile 5.0. I haven&#8217;t seen anything to indicate that the 700 is a stripped down Windows Mobile device &#8211; i.e. like many of the Smartphones that can&#8217;t run all Windows Mobile software (including genealogy software).  It definitely looks like the 700 is a full Windows Mobile 5.0 device that looks like it can run genealogy software, but I&#8217;m not 100% sure just yet.  The 650 can run Palm OS genealogy software (not sure of any limitations).<\/p>\n<p>One important difference, the 650 has a 360&#215;360 screen, whereas the 700 has a 240&#215;240 screen.  On the other hand, the 700 has 128MB of built-in memory, while the 650 has 32MB, and the 700 is faster.  The 700 also has a 1.3MP digital camera, while the 650 is a much lower resolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treomobile.com\/\">Treo Mobile<\/a> has extensive coverage of both of these phones.<\/p>\n<p>The Treos could be a good compromise for genealogists who want a mobile device, but are afraid they won&#8217;t use it much, or that it will be &#8220;just one more thing&#8221; to carry along &#8211; using them as both phones and PDAs can be handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World has a rundown on the differences <a href=\"http:\/\/pcworld.com\/reviews\/article\/0,aid,124348,00.asp\">between the Palm Treo 650 and 700 phones<\/a>, which are PDA\/Phone hybrids from Palm.  The 650 runs Palm OS, and the 700 runs Windows Mobile 5.0. I haven&#8217;t seen anything to indicate that the 700 is a stripped down Windows Mobile device &#8211; i.e. like many of the Smartphones that can&#8217;t run all Windows Mobile software (including genealogy software).  It definitely looks like the 700 is a full Windows Mobile 5.0 device that looks like it can run genealogy software, but I&#8217;m not 100% sure just yet.  The 650 can run Palm OS genealogy software (not sure of any limitations).<\/p>\n<p>One important difference, the 650 has a 360&#215;360 screen, whereas the 700 has a 240&#215;240 screen.  On the other hand, the 700 has 128MB of built-in memory, while the 650 has 32MB, and the 700 is faster.  The 700 also has a 1.3MP digital camera, while the 650 is a much lower resolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treomobile.com\/\">Treo Mobile<\/a> has extensive coverage of both of these phones.<\/p>\n<p>The Treos could be a good compromise for genealogists who want a mobile device, but are afraid they won&#8217;t use it much, or that it will be &#8220;just one more thing&#8221; to carry along &#8211; using them as both phones and PDAs can be handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}