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Yeah, I know.

I unboxed the Treo 650 when I got home tonight, synced the Treo 600 one last time, pulled out the SIM card and my SD, popped them in the 650, cabled it up to the Mac, synced the 650 (which took about ten minutes thanks to thousands of calendar events), and blam. Ready to go.

What's good:

• The screen is the secks. Seriously. It's so much better than the 600 that it's just ludicrous that Palm actually released the pile of crap that is the 600. They should have called it an internal beta or a prototype.
• The keyboard is drastically improved. I always envied the crackberry monkeys because they could actually type with their fingertips. Now I can too.
• Bluetooth. Bluetooth is why I bought the Mac. Well, Salling Clicker is why I impulse-bought the Mac back when I had a T68i. ("Hmm, I need a laptop and this little app looks really cool!") Now I can sync via Bluetooth and run Clicker.
• Removable battery. And it came half-charged, so none of that silly "leave it on the charger for at least three hours before playing with your new toy" nonsense.

What's not good:

• It's still a brick.
• It still has a big external antenna knob.
• The buttons are kind of weird and different from the Treo 600, so I keep opening the Contacts when I want to open the Apps menu.

I haven't made any phone calls yet, so I don't know how the phone quality is, but I'm sure I'll let you know if it still sucks.

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