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| Reviewed by Andrew | ||
| EDITOR'S CHOICE: BEST VALUE TREO ACCESSORY Small and simple is beautiful and this is particularly true for the SPE Retractable Treo Sync & Charge Cable – an essential and indispensable item in my Treo accessories kit as well as that of most Treonauts which has been a Top 5 bestselling product for over two years now. Read more... | ||
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Great addition | ||||
| User: Janice Wright, Nov 10, 2006 | |||||
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| This is a good choice for a second charger/sync. I can use this one at home with my laptop and use the original cords at the office. It is also a great price. | |||||
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Must-have accessory | ||||
| User: Terry Harvey, Jan 14, 2007 | |||||
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| Takes way less space than the clunky OEM synch cable, this is definitely a travel essential. I can ditch the OEM cable & charger. And buy a few more for the office, home, travel case. One issue that applies to this and all similar products is that the connector is universal and doesn't fully leverage the advances in the 680. Product description needs to be updated. The OEM cable will trickle-charge the Treo 680 from discharged to 100% from a powered USB 2.0 port (that's all I have used so far). The connector for the Treo end of the the retractable cable doesn't need the power adaptor as far as I can tell, they could make it even more compact by removing that. The 680 OEM adaptor only has 4 prongs, but this product has all 13 prongs which are apparently not required for the 680. When my battery was fully discharged though, the OEM sync/charge cable wouldn't charge it, but no problem if there was a tiny bit of charge left. This cable did recharge (in about 4 hours!), and it works fine syncing from my docking station USB port which the OEM doesn't seem to do. With battery life as cr*ppy as the 680's this is an important issue. I'd rather not carry more batteries & chargers than I absolutely have to! | |||||
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Worked great, for a while... | ||||
| User: Someone Anonymous, Aug 26, 2007 | |||||
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| Right off I noticed the physical connection wasnt as sturdy as the stock Treo cable, but I thought nothing more of it. This thing worked great for the first month or so I had it. Shortly thereafter, though, it became increasingly difficult to get this cable to hotsync - I found myself having to hold the connector firmly in the bottom of my Treo. Well, as annoying as that was, it simply got worse and worse. No less than fifteen minutes ago, I simply gave up after about the tenth time trying to get it to work. I grabbed my old box, took out the stock cable, and snapped it in (to a satisfying "CLICK"). It worked right off. Now, dont get me wrong, this thing worked pretty well when it was playing nice, but that only lasted so long. Im still going to keep it, as it still powers the Treo just fine (making it fantastic for keeping the Palm alive on road trips). The craftsmanship is decent at best, and I noticed the "paint" (some sort of also-black rubberized coating? I dunno) started flaking off around the edges, and is now about 30 gone. Overall, its decent, for a while. If you want something to keep your Treo charged on a road trip, thisll do it (along with the 12VDC-USB adapter), but if thats all youre looking for, theres better products out there. | |||||
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works well, retractable design broke |
| User: betagreg x, Aug 15, 2007 | |
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| works as advertised, though the retractable quality broke after 8 months of use (difficult to say how many thousand retractions). Still usable, though the portable nature has been compromised | |
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charge no sync |
| User: Alan Swift, Oct 10, 2007 | |
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| Dear Andrew, I wanted to let you know the experiences I had with the Smartphone Expert’s retractable recharge/sync cable. After your recommendation I bought one of these prior to a recent trip to Southern Africa. At home it worked the one time I tried it – probably should had tried it more but I figured hey – it is a cable, what can go wrong? Anyway I got to Africa and went to sync my unlocked 750 with no luck. It would charge OK but nothing else. I tried all the fixes to no avail and over a few days frustrated I gave up. Just to let you know I use my laptop/Treo to down load directions to various places I go once I get there and figure out my itinerary. This time having neither backup cable nor access to a printer I had to depend on the old fashion way (hand written) Kind of sucked. Anyway since I have been home I have tried time and time again to sync my Treo with it with no luck. I use the factory cable and it kicks right in to active sync. The trip was not ruined but I learned a valuable lesson – never try new stuff despite recommendations - when you are far from home. Anyway I thought you might like an alterative viewpoint on one of the products you support, Alan Swift | |
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