A friend of mine sent me an email asking me what I thought about my Treo270, and I realized that I never did give a "few months perspective" on this gadget, so here it is …

My cousin Scott is thinking about getting a Handspring Treo phone, and was wondering if you'd be willing to share any positive or negative experiences you've had with yours. (You didn't put it in a blog entry somewhere, did you?)

Actually, I did … I would highly recommend it. I really like it. All of the complaints that I found on the 'net are things that I could live with. The small size means the battery doesn't last over a weekend without keeping a close watch on it. I did pick up a program that automatically turns off the phone connection at night (in case I forget to plug it in). But it pretty much lasts all day with my higher than average phone time.

The only negative thing that I could say is that you can't repeatably drop it from 5 feet and have it continue to work. My old Palm V could take a lot more abuse.

The only thing I might do differently is look into the Treo300 … the one for Sprint, as I'm curious how the "Internet" tools work with Sprint. Currently, my now T-Mobile account seems to have trouble connecting to the Internet.

Anyway, I've got it syncing to my Mac better than what I had under Windows or Linux, so I'm very pleased.