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Video: Palm Treo 500v user interface, easiest smartphone to use, ever?

Categories: Palm, Vodafone, Windows Phone
By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, September 15th, 2007 at 5:35 PM

Jason Langridge is the Mobility Business Manager for Microsoft in the EMEA region and a total geek. He hooked up his Treo 500v to his PC via a program called Pocket Controller to show us what the user interface of the 500v and I think you’re going to be as amazed as I am:

Granted, this was not running in real time, it was skipping a few frames. All that aside now, you have to be asking yourself, can a smartphone get any easier? You have access to everything you could possibly want to do with a device in a convenient carrousel type view. Does this seem familiar? Yes it does, I posted a video last week after the Go Play event to set the story straight on the whole “Nokia copied Apple” news blitz:

At the end of the day, I thank Sony for the PSP/PS3 who probably had a hand in inspiring both these companies:

I’m curious to test out this new Treo 500v, bring out the unlocked version already, slap some GPS in there and a camera with autofocus and I’ll buy my first Palm in what seems like 4 years now. As for my reference to Sony, my message to them is to fly some of those engineers out to Sweden to give UIQ a much needed user interface lift.

please do not tell me that the iphone is an easier smartphone to use, the iphone is not a smartphone

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • JonnyBruha

    Grab a flight back to the States and pick up a Verizon branded phone. The 500v works about the same way. I can’t believe you like that kind of menu structure? To each their own.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Vodafone does hold a majority stake in Verizon, never had a CDMA phone.