The Palm Treo Pro is the latest in the Treo lineup. Featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, EV-DO, GPS, Windows Mobile and 2 megapixel camera, this smartphone targets the business user population.
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Product Description
| A great choice for business road warriors who want to stay on top of both their professional and personal lives, the Palm Treo Pro features a new, streamlined design and Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system. Packed with a wide range of connectivity options, you'll be able to access email and documents via tri-mode 3G reception and Wi-Fi as well as navigate to new destinations with the built-in GPS mapping. And with the power of the updated Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, you'll stay easily connected to your business and personal data on the go with support for a wide variety of email accounts as well as the ability to edit Microsoft Office documents.
This unlocked cell phone can be used with a GSM network service provider and it provides quad-band connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz). It also offers tri-band 3G connectivity (850/1900/2100 MHz), which makes it compatible with UMTS/HSDPA 3G networks in both the United States and in international territories. It does not come with a SIM card, and it requires that you provide a SIM card for usage with your selected service provider. This phone comes with a one-year warranty from a third party provider. Phone Features
Carry your calendar, contacts, tasks and notes, so you're prepared and organized wherever you go. You can sync with Outlook, accept meeting invites, look up people in your company's directory, or set an Out of Office email reply when you're away from your computer. Stay on top of your latest Outlook email on your touchscreen thanks to Microsoft Direct Push Technology. You can also access your Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo! mail accounts and view graphics and links in HTML email. This phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, audio/video remote control, and printing. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can also use the Treo Pro as a modem for your PC using Bluetooth to connect to 3G connectivity. Other features include:
Lower Costs, Increased Productivity
Included Software
Vital Statistics Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 With Windows Mobile 6.1, your phone will finally be able to emulate the power and features of your PC's Microsoft Office suite. You'll be able to neatly view, navigate and edit Word documents and Excel spreadsheets in their original formatting--without affecting tables, images or text--as well as view PowerPoint presentations.
All Windows Mobile 6.1 powered devices include Direct Push Technology for up-to-date e-mail delivery and automatic synchronization of Outlook calendars, tasks and contacts through Microsoft Exchange Server. It also offers a set of important device security and management features that include the capability to remotely wipe all data from a device should it be lost or stolen, helping ensure that confidential information remains that way. What's in the Box |
Product Details
- This unlocked cell phone is compatible with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. Not all carrier features may be supported. It will not work with CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless, Alltel and Sprint.
- Quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies
- Sreamlined smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1 for access to push email, 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
- Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 250 hours (10+ days) of standby time
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Customer Reviews
 Great Treo - continuation of excellence |
| Review Date: October 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Chris P. Kunicki, |
| 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. |
| Well put together, responsive, good phone. |
| Review Date: October 5, 2008 |
| Reviewer: R. Bane, USA |
| 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 :) |
| Treo Pro surprisingly impressive |
| Review Date: December 30, 2008 |
| Reviewer: doctj, OH, USA |
| I bought this treo after my phone and PDA died almost simultaneously. I had avoided a treo mainly due to the smaller screen compared to my Palm Tungsten but needed a device with a keyboard and wasn't interested in RIM products.
I initially bought an iPhone but gave it to my wife due to 1. Poor phone functionality 2. Crippled sms (message forwarding, MMS, file attachment; Apple?) , crippled Bluetooth and lack of a hard keyboard. I was initially wary of buying a windows mobile device due to prior poor experience with pocket pc software. I have been pleasantly surprised by this device. 1. Speed-very fast overall, the only slowdowns I experience is with notes for some reason. I've accumulated 100's of them over the yrs but this is no excuse as my 7 yr old palm could speed through them 2. Call quality is crystal clear much better than the iPhone's in my area. 3. Bluetooth-this phone is compatible with Audi's car kit and the voice quality is stellar. Palm's site states it does not download contacts to the car but it did download some of them in my case. All the BT protocols of a 21st century device are supported unlike the iPhone's 20th century implementation. 4. "Proper" GPs-not that iphone wannabe gps. Quick signal locks and 1 month free trial of TeleNav turn-by-turn is nice. I've heard TomTom's software works pretty well with this device. 5.Battery life is so so, with email downloading in the background it will last about 2 business days. With a lot of websurfing it will barely last the day. I would say it's better than the iphone, not by much though. 6. Touchscreen-finger friendly, I only use my stylus to write ink notes or use Epocrates. WM 6.1 although it looks ugly compared to the iPhone OS, is a true multitasking OS, actually feels like a portable computer. I can wait for a satellite lock loading, go to another program and return back to the GPS as it finishes. 7. Form factor- love the size, overall dimensions are nice and its quite thin, great job on the design. Keyboard key material is fine for me a Treo newbie. Overall this phone is a keeper, the combination of hard keyboard and touchscreen is great, while the addition of some apps (SPB, skyfire, kinomaplay to name a few) make it a truly superb device. |
| With a big "BUT" |
| Review Date: February 21, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Turner, |
| For this Treo veteran -- dating back to when it was still Handspring -- the Treo Pro is good and bad news.
Good: Slick, elegant, light, compact, great touchscreen, every bell and whistle modern smartphones should have. Keyboard smaller than previous Treos, but still easy for my large fingers to use. Retains the unique Palm switch to silence ringtones. (I find it a mystery why other cellphones ignore this simple convenience. Of course, switches have only been around since electricity was invented, so they may not have noticed yet). A nit to pick: The stylus has inexplicably moved to the lower-right corner, where it's hard to see and remove. Really stupid. Fortunately, with the good touchscreen, it's not needed much. Bad: Windows Mobile 6.1 is a shock. "Microsoft Modern" -- clumsy, slow, layers and layers of menus, confusing, inscrutable, given to freezes, crashes. Worse than even Blackberry, which is compatible only with itself and almost as clumsy as Windows. Unfortunately, these two are currently the only choices. (Did I mention that I don't care for either?) But Help Is On The Way! Spb Mobile Shell 2.1 is a software user interface that's what Palm would be had they continued the creative energy that produced its original operating system. Mobile Shell is astoundingly capable, flexible, and fun. (Did I mention that I love it?) A 15-day trial of Mobile Shell can be downloaded at handango.com. Purchase is $[...]. This is the greatest value for the dollar since sliced bread. For those who haven't visited handango, they've got lots of other cool Treo software. Summary: The Treo Pro with Spb Mobile Shell 2.1 is a 5-star almost-ideal-smartphone. With Windows Mobile 6.1, I'd be pressed to give it a 3. Wonderful hardware; disasterous software. BUT....(see above) |
| My Palm Pro.. |
| Review Date: November 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Mister CHO, Los Angeles, CA |
| after several weeks of researching, comparing, & then waiting for its release, i was very pleased to purchase the Palm Treo Pro. this was my first smartphone & i wanted something that fit well in my hand & also had a lot of practical features. i think that i got both in the Palm Treo Pro.
design: it's design is very (dare i say it) fashion forward. unlike previous Treo's, its got a much slimmer profile & fits very well in either a pants or shirt pocket. i like the qwerty keyboard & the directional "palm" key works really well for moving from one field to another. i also really like that i can use the keyboard, the stylus, or even my fingertips to use the different programs & features of the device. setup: the setup process was actually not bad at all. once i inserted my SIM card, the phone recognized the settings of my current service provider & integrated all of the network settings seamlessly w/o any issues. it comes with a decent amount of memory on the phone when you purchase it & can be upgraded to as much as 32GB of memory using micro SD. i have found only one issue thus far. after using the device for around 3 wks i'v already broken a stylus. the styli are mostly metal with a plastic head & tip. the connection between the plastic head & metal stylus is the only thing i would suggest Palm redesigns. otherwise, i LOVE the device.. |
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