Palm Treo Pro Review – Specifically designed to target the business users

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:38
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Specifically designed to target the business users, the latest phone from Palm is aimed at putting a simile on the faces of lots of businessmen, and perhaps wipe off that complacent smirk off the mugs of iPhone and BlackBerry lovers. It operates with Windows Mobile 6.1, built-in with the Microsoft Office Mobile Suite along with Direct Push Technology for real-time e-mail delivery.

The first thing to be noticed about the latest Treo Pro is its modern look. It gets rid of the clunky, outmoded design of earlier Treos. The smartphone is quite sharp, both inside and out. It has a 320x320-pixel resolution touch screen, and sports in a screensaver that shows you any missed calls, time and latest text/multimedia messages at a glimpse. Besides, you can also see some Palm Centro influence with the full QWERTY keyboard; however the navigation keypad is all new.

The quad-band world phone also comes built-in with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UMTS/HSDPA support, and GPS. The Palm Treo Pro is expected to be made available through Vodafone and O2 in Europe during September. As to its pricing or exact availability date, there is not much info.

Let’s take a look at the cutting-edge features of Palm Treo Pro :

(1) Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB, buy memory
(2) 100MB built-in user available memory, 128MB RAM
(3) Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries, Photocall
(4) General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
(5) Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
(6) Office Mobile (Word, Excel, Outlook)
(7) Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video
(8) Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
(9) Browser WAP 2.0 / HTML (PocketIE)
(10) General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
(11) Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 -- 48 kbps
(12) 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
(13) Status Available. Released 2008, October
(14) Size Dimensions 114 x 60 x 13.4 mm
(15) Weight 133 g
(16) Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
(17) Size 320 x 320 pixels, 2.5 inches
(18) Customization Download, order now
(19) Customization Download, order now
(20) Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3
(21) 5-way navigation button
(22) Full QWERTY keyboard
(23) Vibration Yes
(24) Qualcomm MSM7201 400MHz processor
(25) Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
(26) Call records practically unlimited
(27) WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
(28) HSCSD No
(29) EDGE Yes
(30) 3G HSDPA
(31) Infrared port Yes
(32) USB Yes, microUSB
(33) Messaging SMS, MMS, Email
(34) Games Yes, order now
(35) Colors Obsidian
(36) Full PIM functionality
(37) 3.5mm stereo headset jack
(38) Stand-by Up to 250 h
(39) Talk time Up to 5 h
(40) Built-in GPS
(41) Java MIDP 2.0
(42) Built-in handsfree
(43) Voice memo