Qool QDA-700 Review
It runs the Palm OS, it's a PDA, it's a phone, but it's NOT a Treo. The Qool QDA-700 is a compelling PDA feature phone for those who want flexibility in a small and easy to use package.
Introduction
With all of the news about the Palm OS platform lately, I had been one to think the platform was heading towards a niche end with Palm taking its popular Treo model and placing the operating system with Windows Mobile. I am not one who thought that as a platform the Palm OS had any place at all left to go; but to stay on the remaining devices owned by a shrinking user base. And then I was asked if I wanted to do the review for the Qool QDA-700. It is a Palm OS feature phone (not smartphone, I will explain that) and despite some of its rough edges, represents where PalmSource had been talking about taking the platform, and where I can see it being successful.
The Qool QDA-700 is a Palm OS feature phone. Unlike the smartphone Treo, which is primarily a data communicator and phone, the QDA-700 does not espouse to be anything more than a phone that uses the Palm OS to do some neat functions here and there. If you will, the feature side of things is the fact that it has a nice camera (with photo managing capabilities), MP3 player, and games that are a little better than those of many mobile phones.
In my time with the QDA-700, I tried to use it in place of my Treo 600 for all of my day-to-day activities. And within this review, my evaluation of the QDA-700 will be both as how it relates to my usage patterns (which may or may not closely follow yours) as well as some features that many reviews normally cover. I will also directly look at the QDA-700 as it compares to my Treo 600. And then finally, where the Palm OS platform can take lessons from this and the Treo to really be a successful feature phone platform...
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