To cut a long story short, the MDA decided to die one evening when away from home with work (when I say die, I actually mean that it kept responding to phantom key-presses but wouldn’t respond to any real key-presses. After a couple of attempts to persuade it back to life, it was invited to have a meeting with the bedroom wall – amen). With a dead phone, I started looking around for something new. I had seen the Treo 750v reviewed and a few colleagues had the model, so after a little playing (and subsequent drooling) I decided to buy one off eBay. After running the unlock software (it was locked to Vodaphone), I’m was the proud owner of a Palm Treo 750v!!

Simply put, the is the best gadget I have ever seen (even more so than my iPod nano) – it blows away all of the competition and should put HTC (the makers of the T-Mobile MDA) to shame. It’s responsive to key-presses, never seems to be bogged down trying to run too many applications and has a snazzy little QWERTY keyboard at the bottom that works great (although I think I need matchsticks for fingers). The screen isn’t as big as the MDA, but all the information I need is there, along with some excellent productivity applications that help you get to stuff a lot faster than the MDA ever did. I also love the fact that there are Ok/Close and Windows buttons on the keypad – this means that you never need to get the stylus out if you’re doing the day-to-day stuff. Simply Excellent.

I think the only thing I don’t like are the proprietary connectors for data and charging (which means I now have another two cables to carry around with me), but I think I can live with that.

In closing I’ll prove my geekiness (I sometimes think I’m a bit of a closet geek) – my first customisation was to add the ringtone from CTU in the 24 Series. Geek Central ;-)