February 23, 2005

What wasn't in the box with my Treo 650

I held off for a long time before buying a new phone (years), but I went out and got a Treo 650 recently. I like it overall, but I can't stand the nasty USB sync with a separate charging cable. It's a total waste of space in my laptop case. I just ordered this neat little cable from BoxWave and life is just a little sweeter.

And here's a little utility that just makes my day.

pSSH is a palm implementation of SSH. It's not terribly secure, but it lets me run emacs on my palm by connecting to the server! :)

Now if this beast would just allow me to use sounds recorded with it's microphone as caller id ringers. I assume the decision to cripple the phone in this way was a pathetic attempt to drive me to the Sprint store for ringers.

Posted by bill at February 23, 2005 07:32 PM
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My Treo 650 lets me use recorded ringtones for caller ID. You can't record a new tone from the select list where you're customizing a phone button, but if you go into the menu Options/Sound Preferences, then go to the Tones section, then click on the "New" button, you can record your own tone and save it. It will then be available to assign to a person.

Posted by: Ben Combee at February 26, 2005 12:53 AM (Spam: 50%)