That’s the wonderful thing about technology, my office can be literally anywhere now. Works great for my work life balance, having a look at the latest from Palm, this is they’re Treo Pro Smart Phone by Palm and it allows me to keep track of everything in on little device. The GPS feature built in, I can actually find out my current location and then use that to get to my next meeting. And being a Palm has got all the familiar shortcuts that I love having. You can see one touch access to my calendar, my email and even one touch Wi-Fi access as well, so I can choose between Wi-Fi access or the built in 3G networking capability.
That’s right, I’m even in the park right now, I can access all the regular web features and my email. Having the built in mobile office apps, I can go right into Outlook here for example and because its push email, it sends me my emails directly when they come in. I can look at my calendar, I can also check things like the to do list and the task and if I get an attachment like a word or an excel document, because I’ve got the full keyboard and it is a touch screen as well, I can even edit those documents as well and then send them out.
The nice thing too is it has the built in flash memory so I can listen to things like music and also watch videos on here, so it has that full multimedia capability as well. Well I can see my next appointment here is that a coffee shop, a blends coffee shop and lets get on the road. What I really like about smart phones is just that, they’re smart, you have a whole lot of different services and devices all built into one. And so as far as the GPS in getting to where I want to go, we’ll use the GPS service called GPS NAV and this is nice because I can search for all sorts of different types of things like restaurants, hotels, just go into the search function here. As you can see there I can either type in where I want to go and in this case I want to go to Blends Coffee, you can see also—I can also program a recent places that I’ve been. Food, coffee, gas stations, even ATM’s, that’s kind of a hand thing when you’re looking for a bit of cash. But instead of typing it, I know it’s a coffee shop, so I can go down the directory listing here, go right down to coffee and from my current location that’s right.
So its actually seeing where I am right now and then showing all the different coffee shops around, so Starbucks, Blends Coffee and exactly where I want to go, the Blends Coffee on Robster’s Street. I’m going to go drive to which I will put it in my little holder, to see if I can get to my meeting on time now. Cant tell you how much time this has saved me. I know guys aren’t supposed to get lost but lets face the facts. This does get you where you want to go on time. Its nice too because it even gives me how far it is to the next turn as well so I know exactly where I do need to turn and here we are, coming up to the right on the corner of the Blends Coffee. I can make my meeting on time.
To get more information about the Treo Pro Smart Phone, check out palm.com.
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