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Treo 700p - kGTD, etc.?

I've been considering trying a Treo 700p, but the reviews from Mac users seem mixed at best. I get the niggling feeling that the Treo is regarded by many as the rack stereo of mobile phones -- crap phone, crap camera, and crap Mac integration all in one slightly pricey package. Still, I am curiously interested, if it's not actually as bad as people say.

Any of you kids using a 650 or 700p (presumably with Missing Sync) to do kGTD? Any general yay or nay opinions on the do-ability/seamlessness/ease of sync of that undertaking? Any general thoughts on whether this is a purchase you'd make again? Got a Sprint phone besides the Treo for doing kGTD?

[="1"](And, no, this doesn't mean I'm abandoning the hPDA, either in concept or usage :). Just curious to see if this unit [which has always attracted me] has evolved sufficiently to warrant the price and form-factor)[/]

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I was attempting to do...

I was attempting to do kGTD with my Palm Tungsten T3 + Missing Sync. However, there's a bug in the current version of Missing Sync so that it fails to update the time stamp of iCal To Do's when syncing from the Palm to the Mac. If I check an item as complete on the Palm, iCal correctly shows the item as complete. However, the time stamp for that task isn't updated so kGTD doesn't recognize that the task has been checked off as complete. I hope that made sense...if not, check out this discussion over at the Kinkless site. I found this pretty frustrating and it pretty much made the system unusable for me. If it's ever fixed, I might go back and give it another try.

 
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