Comments on: Bought the Treo 650

By: http://

http:// — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:58:00 +0000

I am trying to BEAM my contacts from my TREO 650 to my OLD Kyocera 7135.

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks,

bert@bertsports.com

By: http://

http:// — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 06:29:00 +0000

Followup: I returned the 650 and kept the 6600. It has an excellent voice recognition program called Voice Command (from Micro$oft), which makes all the diff. I can call up anyone of my 3000 contacts by voice, play music by voice, run any app by voice, dial a specific number (e.g. "dial 411" by voice). BT with the Prius is a little weird, but I'm working that out with some udpates and patches. And the script recognition (writing on the screen) makes input way easier than on the Treo's little keyboard. The unit is a little more cumbersome to use, and one-handed operation isn't as possible, though with the Voice Command, no-handed operation is possible.

Bob Cowart

By: http://

http:// — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:54:00 +0000

Looks like running the updater to 1.08 is a good idea. See this link:

http://alteraxion.typepad.com/coolgadgets

search the page for updater 1.08.

I've now also purchased a PPC-6600 from Sprint. I have them both now, and am comparing the two (Treo 650 and 6600). I am beginning to lean toward the 6600, as much as I love the screen on the Treo and the one-handed operation. ANd I might be going over to Verizon for its EVDO support. I did get the Treo hacked for use as a wireless modem, use PDANet (great program). I am getting around 60K throughput, I would say. Not great. EVDO over Verizon offers much higher, though for $80/mo rather than the $15/mo for Sprint's slower data network.

Bob Cowart

By: http://

http:// — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:01:00 +0000

Lets see how good my memory is...

This is the steps I did to get my Treo to work w/ my Prius.

1. Get update from http://www.palmone.com/us/support/downloads/treo650carkitupdate/index.html
Download, run and reboot Treo.

2. On top right of phone screen on Treo, click the bluetooth symbol. Confirm that bluetooth is on, "Discoverable" is clicked on "Yes" and that you've named your phone under "Device Name"

Now click the word "Bluetooth" on top left of bluetooth screen. If it says "Do not allow wake up", leave it, that means it's currently set to allow for wake up. If it says "Allow wake up", click on that to allow the phone to wake up.

3. From this point it's pretty self explanitory. Have them find each other, enter the password. Then, what's worked for me is turning off then back on the Prius.

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:27:00 +0000

Also just came out today:

http://www.palmone.com/us/support/downloads/treo650updater/sprint.html

I haven't tried it yet.

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:03:00 +0000

All the gray'd out stuff is do to a cable that comes into the nav telling it how fast the car is going. They handle it there I believe. I am almost certain all of that will be handled.

I ordered it over a month ago, so we will see once I get it installed.

On the hands free...I dont think it is possible. If you turn Bluetooth on in the Treo, the car will take over. If you turn it off in the Treo, the headset won't work. I don't know how easy it would be to delete your phone from your car and reset them up each time you want to use your headset. Sounds a bit much for me.

By: http://

http:// — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:05:00 +0000

That looks good. DOes that undo all the grayed out stuff? Or just nav things?

ALso, do you know how to tell the Treo to let you use a bluetooth earpiece in the car? Seems that the car wants to take over the hands free operations.

Bob

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:34:00 +0000

Great! Glad you got it working. I also ordered http://www.coastaletech.com/nav_kit.htm to solve the “Can’t-do-anything-while-moving-even-if-you-have-a-passenger” problem.

By: http://

http:// — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:16:00 +0000

Making progress! I had to go to Sprint store to get "reprovisioned". Not Business Connection works. It's awesome. I've just been sitting here with my desktop computer, checking it out. I used to think it was cool that my PocketPC synched with Outlook when the PPC was in its cradle. That's nothing compared to the Treo updating itself over the wireless network while I'm out of the office. Mail comes in, or my secretary enters an appt in Outlook on my desktop, and my phone updates! THis is geeky coolness.

As for the Prius, the phonebook thing is clearly sucky. I will have to do what your friend Alan did and copy any contact I want in the phonebook to a new entry, remove the ( ) and - marks and assign them to a new category (Prius), and then upload to the Prius. However, you can't scroll the phone book in the Prius while driving anyway, which sucks. You have to use only the six "speed dial" buttons. Not good. AND the outgoind sound in my Prius is reported by my callees as very horrible and distorted. What are you doing right? Or what am I doing wrong? I'm tempted to use the BT headset in the car, and get the voice dialing feature either on Sprint or the add-in software for the Treo, and skip the Prius phone system.

In fact, I tried the BT earphone in the car, but it wouldn't be recognized. Seems the Prius Hands Free was taking over and not letting the Plantronics earpiece register itself. I tried various things. Only when I turned off the Prius was it allowed. Can't figure out how to change the order of BT preference so that if the headset is on, the Prius sound system is overruled.

Bob Cowart
Author: Using WIndows XP (Que)

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http:// — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:00:00 +0000

Thanks. Making progress. I got the car and phone to work together enough to make some calls. And I got Outlook and the 650 to sync. Don't yet have the address book sucked into the Prius' phonebook, though. Also, can't seem to get the phone to download and activate the PCSVision. It just runs for a bit and then says "The update was not succesful due to a server communications error. If the problem persists, contact Sprint."

ALso not clear what the deal with using BC to connect to my Outlook Mail is. I have three POP accts that Outlook pulls in. I don't have Exchange Server running. I want to see / interact with the mail that comes into Outlook (my computer queries my POP servers every 5 minutes to suck in mail.

THanks,
Bob