Treo 650 : Free MultimediaCard
| Just about everybody complains about the Treo 650's skimpy memory. For US buyers, you can claim a free 128MB SD card here. As soon as I bought my Treo, I tried to use the online web form but it would not accept my ID number. So I sent an email to the Asia support group. Apparently, they won't just give the card to everyone who buys the Treo 650. You need to convince them that you are a "power user" and the 22MB RAM isn't enough for you. For me, I gave them my Palm history and gave them serial numbers of my past Palms including the TT3 and Zire72. Yesterday (three weeks later) I received an MMC card in the mail, postmarked Singapore. No notes, no cards or anything else, just the MMC in its case and the bubble wrap. It was the ATP brand.  For those who are interested, here are the VFSmark results : File Create: 248% File Delete: 213% File Write: 52% File Read: 236% File Seek: 513% DB Export: 154% DB Import: 316% Record Access: 470% Resource Access: 436% VFSMark: 293 So the bad news : - it's an MMC, not an SD card - it's slow (slower than my three year old 64MB PRETEC MMC) The good news : - it's free - I didn't have to wait too long for it, and didn't face much of a hassle. |
Comments on "Treo 650 : Free MultimediaCard"
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Idian said ... (10:14 PM) :
post a commentAfter back and forth correspondence with PalmOne US, essentially here is what they told me:
Although any owner of treo-650 who wants to can claim a SD card, the regional office can enact policy independently concerning the criteria they will impose for the claim. They can ask for a proof of purchase receipt or the name of your dog for that matter before they send you the card.
Worst of all is that none of this information was made clear in any of Palm website or public announcements to users.
We now have different situations in each country, for example:
Singapore: available to power users only, although the definition of power users seems to be how hard you bang the table to get your point across to them.
Indonesia: available only if you can provide proof of purchase, serial number and ID Number not withstanding.
So, don't get too excited next time PalmOne made another announcement like this because although it never specifically stated " for US resident only " those of us living outside US may never get it.
I don't know what you guys call it, but I call it deceitful.