Palm Treo Pro is a smart phone from Palm and is based on the Windows Mobile platform. The phone is available in both GSM unlocked and locked CDMA formats.
With the Windows Mobile 6.1 powering it, the phone boasts of wide range of software which offer complete business solutions such as the ability to edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents, PowerPoint presentations etc. The Internet Explorer Mobile software provides the gateway to the internet and is capable of handling a wide range of networks including Wi-Fi, 3G and is operable on the HSDPA band.
The design of the Palm Treo Pro is completely different from its predecessors. Notable improvements include a reduction in the weight and the dimensions of the phone, which by the way of a reduction of about 0.2 inches across dimensions has made the phone visibly sleek. The Palm Treo Pro includes a 2.5 inch TFT touch screen with a full QWERTY keyboard providing the best of both worlds. The keyboard layout is professionally done with a wide range of shortcut keys to provide easy access to some of the most frequently used programs such as the calendar, email and an ‘OK’ key to ease out the navigational queries.
On the multimedia front, the phone supports popular audio and video formats such as AAC, MP3, WMA, WMV and MPEG-4. The micro SD expansion slot on the phone is designed to allow access to a 32GB card which essentially means that a lot of multimedia content can be stored and accessed on the phone. The phone is also equipped with a 2MP camera with 8x zoom and video recording capabilities.
The price of the phone, which retails at $199 for the locked and $399 to $599 for the unlocked versions and the QWERTY keypad which has a slightly cramped up feeling are perhaps the only downside of the otherwise good business phone.
Palm Pre, widely regarded as the successor for the Palm Treo was introduced to the world markets in the first quarter of 2009. The phone is the first in the line of Palm phones which run on the new Linux based platform developed by Palm, called the web OS.
Palm Pre is unique in its design in that the device has only one control button located at the center with a full scale slide out QWERTY keyboard. The phone measures 3.9 inches by 2.3 inches and can easily fit into the pocket.
This phone is equipped with a multi-touch touch screen which measures 3.1 inches diagonally. The touch screen is a capacitive touch screen which responds impressively and allows you to scroll through the lists fairly comfortable. A notable addition to the Palm Pre as compared to the other touch screen smart phones is the appearance of a white ring around the icons to indicate a registered touch. Also the presence of a physical QWERTY keyboard provides an easier means to type out long emails messages etc. The phone is also equipped with a built-in accelerometer which sets the screen orientation automatically with respect to the phone’s position.
The phone works well with all the network systems in place namely Wi-Fi, 3G and also supports GPS functionalities on the integrated GPS receiver. Its web browser is based on web kit and renders web pages very quickly when compared to other smart phones.
Palm Treo Pro is currently available at $199.99 with Sprint.
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Ankur Jain is a Software Engineer in Test Automation. After a 5 years stint with Accenture and Oracle, he started his eLearning company. A long-time blogger and proud owner of the "Learn" series of websites. 
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I’ve been very disappointed by the Pre and had to switch back to my Treo 700p. I’d say of you like Palm OS and its effective PIM applications (calendar, contacts, tasks and memos), you probably won’t like the Pre. Otherwise, I think the Pre may be a good choice. For more details, read this excellent review: http://palmprelansing.blogspot.com/2009/07/pre-review-2-cons-dozen-downfalls.html