It is alleged that John Navas claimed:

> >> They are very good devices if (a) you like the Palm paradigm and (b) the
> >> organizer is important enough for you to put up with a certain amount of
> >> hassle. The Treo 650 is a very good organizer, but only decent as a
> >> phone due issues like having to reconfigure certain things manually.
> >
> >What things? Mine worked out of the box. I did not have to
> >reconfigure anything to make it work.
> >
> >Sure, there are things I've reconfigured, but as a matter of
> >preference, not necessity.
>
> When tethering, profiles have to be enabled and disabled (unlike pretty
> much any regular GSM phone). It's enough beyond the average user that
> I gave up advising my clients to do it.

That's not using it "as a phone", that's using it as a modem. As a
PHONE, it works out of the box. As a PDA, it works out of the box. For
on-device data, it works out of the box. I have no experience using it
tethered to anything.

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