Palm Treo 755p Cell Phone Review - Making/Receiving Calls
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Alfredo Padilla Published on December 20, 2007 Comment on this |
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Dialing Speed (6.10)
The Treo 755p took an average of 3.28 seconds to dial a phone number. This is pretty good, you can see below that only the Curve beat out the Treo 755p's time in this test. We did find the number keys on the keyboard to be a little small and occasionally prone to errors. Unfortunately, it's just something users will have to have to get used to. To do this test we time how long it takes to dial each of five test numbers, starting from the home screen and ending when we hit the send button. | Cell Phone | Time (sec) | Score |
| Palm Treo 755p | 3.28 | 6.10 |
| Palm Centro | 3.62 | 5.52 |
| Palm Treo 750 | 4.25 | 4.71 |
| BlackBerry Curve 8320 | 3.16 | 6.33 |
| T-Mobile Shadow | 3.44 | 5.81 |
| Sidekick LX | 4.2 | 4.76 |
Talk and End Buttons (7.5)
Unlike the Treo 750 where the send and end buttons were located to the far left and right of the D-Pad the Treo 755p has them in a position that will be familiar to Palm OS users, just below the screen to the left and right of the D-Pad. On the 750 these buttons are used for the soft key functions but Palm OS lacks soft keys. We like this positioning better for making calls as the buttons are larger and easier to find by feel than those on the Treo 750. They provide good key travel when pressed and solid tactile feedback.
Call Management (6.0)
Call management features are typical Palm fare. During a call you have several buttons on screen to access functions like speaker phone, hold, the dial pad, and mute. The menu key brings down a menu with a few additional options, like connecting to a Bluetooth headset. There's no support for recording a phone call. The call log on the Treo 755p is a chronological list of phone numbers. You can filter by incoming, missed, or outgoing calls. When you have a call selected you can use on-screen buttons to add that number to your contacts or view details for the call. There was no information about total call timers or data transfers available. As with most Palm devices when your call ends the Treo 755p will ask you if you want to add the number to your contacts if it's not already there.
Startup to Call (2.38)
This test measures how long it takes to get a phone going from being totally off until we're able to dial a number. We use the same five test numbers as we did with our standard calling test. As with other Palm devices there's no way to completely turn off the Treo 755p without taking out the battery, so this test is a little less relevant than other phones that actually have an off switch. The Treo 755p took an average of 42.1 seconds to start up and make a call. This is a decent time for a smart phone. As you can see below most of our comparison phones did pretty poorly here too. The only exception is the Curve that, like all BlackBerry devices, is very quick to start up.
| Cell Phone | Time (sec) | Score |
| Palm Treo 755p | 42.1 | 2.38 |
| Palm Centro | 42.66 | 2.34 |
| Palm Treo 750 | 42.26 | 2.37 |
| BlackBerry Curve 8320 | 7.12 | 14.04 |
| T-Mobile Shadow | 78.36 | 1.28 |
| Sidekick LX | 56.54 | 1.77 |
Ring Volume (84.9)
The Treo 755p's ring volume measured 84.9 decibels. As you can see below this is pretty standard, with all our comparison phones falling within a couple of decibels. It's the rare phone that deviates from the 80-90 decibel range in ring volume. To make this measurement we go through all the phone's ring tones at maximum volume and use a sound pressure meter to measure the loudness.
| Cell Phone | Volume (decibels) | Score |
| Palm Treo 755p | 84.9 | 8.49 |
| Palm Centro | 85.5 | 8.55 |
| Palm Treo 750 | 83.2 | 8.32 |
| BlackBerry Curve 8320 | 85.6 | 8.56 |
| T-Mobile Shadow | 85.4 | 8.54 |
| Sidekick LX | 84.5 | 8.45 |
Ringtone Customizability (2.0)
As we've seen on other Palm OS devices the Treo 755p doesn't allow you to use your own music files as ring tones. You instead have to turn them into MIDI files and go through a convoluted process to get them on the phone. We won't be awarding points for that. You can use your own voice recordings as ringtones, however.
Non Audio Alerts (8.0)
We found the Treo 755p's vibrate a little on the light side, but better than that on the Treo 750. As you would expect the Treo 755p's screen lights up when a call comes in, and perhaps more helpful, the LED indicator will blink when you have missed a call.
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