- 08
- Nov
Tag : pro unlocked, palm treo, cell phone, fi gps, mp camera, 3g wi
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 Company : Palm List Price : $549.00 Amazon Price : $495.00 Used Price : Average customer review :  |
Features
- Unlocked quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and US & International 3G compatibility via 850/1900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA plus GPRS/EDGE data capabilities
- Sreamlined smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1 for access to push email, Office documents, and corporate security features
- Full QWERTY keyboard, large color touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11b/g), GPS for turn-by-turn navigation
- 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree communication and stereo music streaming, digital audio player
- Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time
Product Description
The unlocked Treo Pro smartphone by Palm is thoughtfully designed for people who define their workday the way they see fit. Respond to business and personal email, stay on top of appointments and contacts, and use Wi-Fi or GPS when you’re out and about. Then watch a video on YouTube, catch up with news and sports on the web, or listen to a few songs. It helps balance your active mobile lifestyle.
The full QWERTY keyboard and large color Touchscreen make the Treo Pro simply effortless to use. Speaking of uncomplicated, you’ll love the design. It’s thin and elegant, but still packs plenty of battery power for a life on the go. Search for the nearest cafe using GPS and arrive easily thanks to turn-by-turn directions on your touchscreen. Just press a button and you’ll be online faster than you can say double non-fat latte. The instant-on Wi-Fi button lets you join a local Wi-Fi network quickly and easily. The 320×320 TFT color touchscreen brings your photos and videos to life. Add a pair of headphones, and you’ve got an entertainment center to go. Do a quick web search by typing directly on the Today screen. You’ll get your answers without having to locate and launch another application. Palm makes it quick and easy to silence your phone for meetings?just by sliding the ringer switch. No menus, no scrolling, no worries. Outlook email with Microsoft Direct Push Technology and HTML support World phone with UMTS/HSDPA speeds High-capacity, removable 1500-mAh battery GPS for navigation, turn-by-turn directions, and local search Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile for contacts, calendar, and to-do’s Edit native Microsoft Word and Excel documents Open and view PowerPoint, PDF, and ZIP files Use Internet Explorer Mobile to search the web fast Functions as a high-speed modem for your laptop Personal email including Hotmail, Yahoo!, and Gmail Chat-style view for SMS and MMS Windows Media Player Mobil
Customer reviews
great phone….. 
Phone is great……..needs more talk-time….higher processor speed ….more memory and an FM radio to be the King Of The Hill!
Great Treo - continuation of excellence
I love my new Treo Pro. I have been using it for about 2 weeks and already plan to hold on to it for the long haul. Little, history, I have had the Origional Treo, 200, 600, and 650. This is the best of them all. I swtiched two windows mobile 2 years ago because… well the PALM OS is dead in my book. That aside, I really missed the treo. I think palm gets how to build a nice device.
Keyboard: Works great. I find for a thumb keyboard and now with some experience I can fly with it. Personally, I love the thumb keyboard. Perfect for one handed operation with little compromise.
Thin: This thing fits very nicely into the pocket and the screen guard is excellent. I dont even know I have it with me and I never accidently Dial anyone. It fits in the hand wonderfully.
Buttons.. Some devices are going away from having so many buttons. However I like the ability to launch frequent programs. The Pro is great at letting you customize. (You have many hardware buttons and some of them can also be configured to have an Option + Hardware button application bound to them)
Also, you have hardware button access to volume control and wifi.
GPS: Works great. I installed and worked right away.
Power: this device is not a power pig. With normal use I get a good run off it. Mind you, I use applications on it all day along and SMS extensively.
Camera: I havent used it. Frankly, it doesnt matter how many mega pixels any phone has, it still just a phone camera. Quality is never that good. But it is good enough for those fun quick shots.
Dislikes: well, the screen is a standard windows mobile device screen. I was hoping for a new device, especially manufactured by HTC it would have a bit more kick to it. However, its very functional and does what I want. One thing I love is how they built into the keyboard access to the brightness control. This is something all devices should have. Its really hard to increase the brightness if you can read the screen. No problem with the treo.
The ALT key on the keyboard allows you to access characters not on the keyboard, including accented letters for various languages. What I dont like is that its a little window that shows up with about 8 characters show and you scroll to see more. Well there are a lot of characters, it would be better if they just filled the screen so you can quickly find the special character you want.
Windows Mobile Phone Dialer stinks! This is true in my opinion for any windows mobile device. Its a phone, but you have to navigate often 2 to 3 screens deep just to get a phone number. For example, you start typing someones name and the dialer appears. It instantly starts searching for a name. Great! When you select a name by pressing enter, it pulls up their contact screen. (HUH???) yes, you now get to see more info about them. I just want to DIAL the phone number. Long story short, for simple dialing its more complicated than it needs to be. Second, the Windows Mobile phone dialer always seems unresponsive and slow. Its a phone… but the phone is slow. it makes no sense. This is not a critisim against the treo, but if this your first Windows Mobile device you will be a bit disappointed with this.
My Final gripe is that it uses the Micro USB Cable. I dont know why. All I can say is that about 90% of my small electronic gizmos use Mini usb and now I have a new cable standard to deal with. I am sure there is some value to it, but I dont see it. Yes, the connector is smaller, but the cable is still just as thick and just as long. So why I need a thinner (by maybe a few hair widths) I dont know.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Click Buy Great device.
Poor design makes this phone a non-starter 
I have been a very loyal palm treo user for years. So I was really excited when I first heard about the Treo Pro. Pre-ordered it. When it arrived, I could not get the back cover off. Asked my big strong husband. Asked my big strong kids. No go. Had to return it. I hope next version puts some skids on the back cover to solve this problem. Oh well. I’m now waiting for the Blackberry Storm to come out.
Well put together, responsive, good phone.
I’ve been using windows mobile phones for the last four years, for work related purposes. When my HTC Excalibur flaked out on me last month, I checked around and waited for this to come out. I’ve been using it for a few days, but so far I’m extremely happy with the experience.
The touchscreen/thumb keyboard combo with no sliding bits or bulky moving parts was the selling point for me. I use email and IM on my phones constantly, it’s important that it works and is usable. I’m happy to report that this phone does it well. The built in GPS works (ships with Google Maps loaded, but I generally prefer the Live Search application for Windows Mobile). The touch screen generally improves over the basic smartphone experience, as being able to click a link with the stylus is much nicer than navigating with buttons.
As speed and memory goes, so far they’ve been ample, and it’s noticeably snappier than other devices I’ve used recently. I’m planning to use a MicroSD card to get a bit more space, but I do that with every phone. The camera is decent, but nothing spectacular. I do like the camera software on this phone better than the software on the HTC phones.
Very minor features I do like:
- Time on screen when the backlight is off.
- Hardware switch to silent mode
- My Treo link to mobile-friendly information about the device in the start menu
- And of course, comes GSM unlocked. No carriers loading or unloading software before you get the device, things work like a charm out of the box.
Very minor annoyances:
- Everything else uses mini USB to charge, it would have been nice if Palm did too. This uses a proprietary end on a USB cable.
- It’s glossy, and black, but also very smooth. At times feels very slippery, and opening the case to get to the battery can be a pain.
- Camera button is not as responsive as I’d like for starting the camera app. Seems fine for taking pictures.
Overall, very high marks 
