And while it was expensive, it completely killed my desire to buy a PSP for portable video. I can fit hours-n-hours of 320×320 video on 1GB SD card… I can watch a rip of the Battlestar Galactica DVD in the car while my wife is clothes shopping. All without the hassle of hauling around extra devices.

One of the things I really hated on my 600 is the multitasking and the not-always-connected internet connectivity. Especially when I wanted to jump between email, IM, and web, and it would completely disconnect and redial between programs. Sometimes it would stay connected, but the IM client would need to reconnect.

And as for media… ugh. The 600 screen was only 160×160, if I recall, which killed a lot of opportunities. And the headphone / headset duality sucked: You had a headset to make calls with, and headphones to listen to music. But even though the two shared the same port, they weren’t the same thing. And a 2-in-1 rig seemed to go for around US$40

From the few opportunities I’ve had to play with a 650 (all of two), it seems like the much better machine. But, I would be surprised if they had addressed enough of my gripes for me to like it.

I think the problem now is that, after having used a Palm III with a Novatel Minstrel wireless cradle like 7 years ago, I expect flying cars by now :)

I have no desire to surf the web on my cell phone – what with the tiny screen and small bandwidth; I carried a blackberry for work for awhile, but that just got annoying and I’ve since let the battery die and only charge it when i’m travelling for work ..

My addresses and calendar are all on my laptop which is with me 90% of the time if I need it in a pinch.. Also available via OWA on the web which is accessible almost anywhere these days.

My phone contacts are all in my cell phone..

I generally have a digital camera in my truck or closer, so I really don’t need or want a camera on my phone ..

I’m so close to a computer so much of the time, why do I need to carry one on my hip when I go to the grocery store? Who needs to be that connected?

I feel your pain. I bought the Sanyo 5300 because it was the first Sprint camphone available in my area. And after an ongoing survey of online examples, I think I can safely say that the 5300 has the worst, slowest camera ever grafted on to a clamshell. I grew to loathe the thing… early-adopterism can bite ya sometimes.

“One of the things I really hated on my 600 is the multitasking and the not-always-connected internet connectivity.”

Multitasking is obviously still an issue with the 650, although I find that I’m not missing it as much as I would have thought. I always admired the way my Axim could be playing an MP3, tracking the car’s movements via GPS, and surfing the web simultaneously… but in practice, I just don’t do much app switching. I tend to jump into the PDA, do X for a while, and then jump out.

The off-and-on connectivity issue, OTOH, may be minimized a bit with the 650. It virtually never happens when moving from built-in app to built-in app… it’s the third-party stuff that seems to default to zapping the connection every time I exit. And in one case, I was able to change the default.

“And the headphone / headset duality sucked…”

This is probably another area where my expectations are just lower. I don’t listen to music on the Treo, and when watching movies, I’m quite content with the mono audio I get from the headset.

I just wish I could get mono audio on a Bluetooth headset. That’s the only reason I’m sticking to a wired headset.