Absolutely! Been loving that there is still a company willing to activate these old things...they are a ton of fun to use. Loving that keyboard. Thanks!
@@xpired5328 The Treo is a smartphone, but the bigger capacitive screen of the iPhone was the death nell for Palm. Palm uses a stylus instead. You could use a fingernail, but not as well. I agree about the keyboard. i love typing on mine. I make fewer mistakes than on my laptop!
Haha, took a few days of trying, and way too many hours on tech support..also have to not be willing to take no for an answer! But definitely worth it...so cool to still be able to use these devices. Thanks for watching!
I wish! Apparently, people have been wiping them and setting them up without BB IDs but the best you would hope for with that is text and calls with no data. Even then, they most likely would be kicked off networks. I hope someone comes up with something!
I still have my Treo 650. I have so many notes on it from my residency that I still plug it up to check on things. This video has motivated me to try and use it again. It still works perfectly. The Palm Calendar was so much easier to manage. Thanks!
Absolutely! Still love using it...quite simple and still a great little device. I'm sad they shut it down. I used it until the end just recently but still works just fine as a Palm!
Awesome video! One of the benefits of living outside the US is having older networks around for longer so most older devices like this get to live longer in service! Palm was so ahead of their time, absolute shame they don’t make devices anymore :(
Exactly! A lot of places around the world still support 2G and will for another few years...a shame we are moving on! These devices were way more fun. Thanks!
@@someguy2135 it's such a tragedy that only U.S. Sprint bought into Palm's vision during the Treo era. I was a heavy Palm PDA user, but used T-Mobile for wireless, and they pushed Nokia like nobody's business. So I ended up having two separate devices. By the time I switched to Verizon, Palm devices had flirted then broke up with Windows Mobile and had moved on to webOS. 💁🏻♂️
had a 650 years ago! surprised it took so much work to get going on your service! here i can slip my sim into any old gsm phone and talk text and data will work off the bat
@@StevealiciousTech rogers in canada still supports gsm and wap browsers seem to still work on a data plan! if you got a sim into the us i wonder how well itd work
I remember when I got my treo. OMG, it was the sexiest thing on the market. The speaker phone was not so great but I really loved this phone. I still have mine!
I still have my Treo 700p and I miss using it. I continued to use it all the way up to October of 2010, even though Android had a very strong hold in the smartphone market at that point.
I'm gonna have to pick up a Tom Tom kit for my Treo 650! My Treo 650s probably have the best standby battery life of any phone in my collection. The last time I had my Treo 650 activated was about a month ago and only just last night was I woken up by a low battery alert. Those treos are also really tough. I had one go through the wash cycle and it still works. Only problem is some dead pixels in the display.
The Tom Tom kit is great and even if you don't have the antenna to get the GPS to work, it still works as a bluetooth car speaker phone for your Palm. Suction cup is amazing as well...best I've ever seen at holding. The battery life is INCREDIBLE. Thanks again for watching!
I miss the planner app and having a stylus. I was able to get some pretty cool apps on my old palm in 2009. I wrote so much porn in high school with that keyboard.
I never wrote anything for publication, unless you include the comments section, but I did read quite a few novels on my Palm devices. Several great eReader apps.
@@StevealiciousTech It makes me nostalgic mostly because the glowing buttons and screen would remind me of when I was 6, where it was winter and we were flying day and night to Ukraine to see family, and I would fall asleep playing 8-ball on the onboard computer.
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Still would love to know if someone got data working on it!!
Love that thing! It's always fun to discover old tech and analyse what people used to like earlier. A very good experience in my opinion.
Absolutely! Been loving that there is still a company willing to activate these old things...they are a ton of fun to use. Loving that keyboard. Thanks!
@@StevealiciousTech Button phones were the real deal man. I hate how the smartphone killed them, they should've stayed till now.
@@xpired5328 The Treo is a smartphone, but the bigger capacitive screen of the iPhone was the death nell for Palm. Palm uses a stylus instead. You could use a fingernail, but not as well. I agree about the keyboard. i love typing on mine. I make fewer mistakes than on my laptop!
@@someguy2135 But gotta say, a touchscreen is indeed better than using a stylus. Still a keyboard rocks man.
I had a 650 many years ago and loved it. The Butler app was a killer. I miss that phone
What did that app do? I will have to look and see if I can find it!
@@StevealiciousTech It was awesome, it added a lot of functionality to Palm OS. Here's a review of it www.urban75.org/tech/butler-palm.html
Absolutely amazing that you were able to get this working in 2021. Shows how much love you have for these long forgotten relics. Stay true to it!
Haha, took a few days of trying, and way too many hours on tech support..also have to not be willing to take no for an answer! But definitely worth it...so cool to still be able to use these devices. Thanks for watching!
It seems like you know your stuff about that, haha. Any idea if we’ll be able to do something similar with BBOS devices after January?
I wish! Apparently, people have been wiping them and setting them up without BB IDs but the best you would hope for with that is text and calls with no data. Even then, they most likely would be kicked off networks. I hope someone comes up with something!
So it seems I have competitors now for the first comment. Great video Steve! and congrats on reaching 3.6k subs
Thanks! I have faith in you, though! I know you can pull through.
I still have my Treo 650. I have so many notes on it from my residency that I still plug it up to check on things. This video has motivated me to try and use it again. It still works perfectly. The Palm Calendar was so much easier to manage.
Thanks!
Absolutely! Still love using it...quite simple and still a great little device. I'm sad they shut it down. I used it until the end just recently but still works just fine as a Palm!
Awesome video! One of the benefits of living outside the US is having older networks around for longer so most older devices like this get to live longer in service!
Palm was so ahead of their time, absolute shame they don’t make devices anymore :(
Exactly! A lot of places around the world still support 2G and will for another few years...a shame we are moving on! These devices were way more fun. Thanks!
They were the leader for individual users (Blackberry was for corporate users) when the iPhone came out and Palm lost its user base.
@@someguy2135 it's such a tragedy that only U.S. Sprint bought into Palm's vision during the Treo era. I was a heavy Palm PDA user, but used T-Mobile for wireless, and they pushed Nokia like nobody's business.
So I ended up having two separate devices. By the time I switched to Verizon, Palm devices had flirted then broke up with Windows Mobile and had moved on to webOS. 💁🏻♂️
had a 650 years ago! surprised it took so much work to get going on your service! here i can slip my sim into any old gsm phone and talk text and data will work off the bat
Wait, really? What carrier do you have? You get data on it as well? Talk and text work but no data.
@@StevealiciousTech rogers in canada still supports gsm and wap browsers seem to still work on a data plan! if you got a sim into the us i wonder how well itd work
@@StevealiciousTech The 700P does not use a sim card.
I remember when I got my treo. OMG, it was the sexiest thing on the market. The speaker phone was not so great but I really loved this phone. I still have mine!
Absolutely! Still looks great and I love booting it up still!
In my country, Palm devices weren't as famous as in the United States. Sony Ericsson and Nokia were dominating the market in my country at that time.
They had some cool ones though from the time! Nokia especially. The Palm was really cool though.
@@StevealiciousTech I agree especially the astronomy app, that's cool!
I still have my Treo 700p and I miss using it. I continued to use it all the way up to October of 2010, even though Android had a very strong hold in the smartphone market at that point.
Awesome phone! Really cool to use...even today!
Yup - that belt attachment certainly is a look...
Knew you were a fan of it! How could you not be?
I just got a tree 755P on eBay for 10 bucks un tested due to the seller not having a charger, will be a treat to see if it works when it comes lol
They are pretty cool! Enjoy it!
@@StevealiciousTech can they still be activated mine says Verizon on it
I'm gonna have to pick up a Tom Tom kit for my Treo 650! My Treo 650s probably have the best standby battery life of any phone in my collection. The last time I had my Treo 650 activated was about a month ago and only just last night was I woken up by a low battery alert. Those treos are also really tough. I had one go through the wash cycle and it still works. Only problem is some dead pixels in the display.
The Tom Tom kit is great and even if you don't have the antenna to get the GPS to work, it still works as a bluetooth car speaker phone for your Palm. Suction cup is amazing as well...best I've ever seen at holding. The battery life is INCREDIBLE. Thanks again for watching!
I bought a GPS adapter from Radio Shack for my m500 and m515
Wow. I still have my Palm Treo in my drawer. For some reason, the stylus pen never stayed in place. Nuts.
Same here! It would slide about halfway out but thankfully never just fall completely out!
@@StevealiciousTech You might be able to find non Palm branded syluii that might have a better fit. Hard to find at this point, though.
I miss the planner app and having a stylus. I was able to get some pretty cool apps on my old palm in 2009. I wrote so much porn in high school with that keyboard.
I never wrote anything for publication, unless you include the comments section, but I did read quite a few novels on my Palm devices. Several great eReader apps.
I just got a palm tree 700w from a lot of phones on ebay
it didn’t come with a charger
Oh man that would be fun to play with! Can probably find a cheap replacement on eBay or Amazon.
@@StevealiciousTech It makes me nostalgic mostly because the glowing buttons and screen would remind me of when I was 6, where it was winter and we were flying day and night to Ukraine to see family, and I would fall asleep playing 8-ball on the onboard computer.
Will it work with red pocket mobile in 2023
wow im early, a minute ago
Woah haha, almost beat me to the video and I'm the one who posted it! Thanks!