Palm Treo Pro Review

The Pro is another in Palm’s popular line of Treo smartphone devices. It contains a couple of firsts for a Treo device. As the name “Pro” is intended to suggest, this model is supposed to be the current pinnacle of Palm Treo device. As for those firsts, it’s thinner than all of its predecessors and it has (finally) a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Its measurements come in at 4.49 inches in height by 2.36 inches in width by 0.53 inches in depth. It weighs just 4.6 ounces. The Treo Pro sports a flush, color TFT touch screen display with a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels. It’s capable of displaying over 65,000 colors. Below the screen is the full QWERTY keypad. On the back the obsidian black Pro has a 2 megapixel camera with an 8x digital zoom and video capture. The Pro’s battery has a rated talk time of up to 5 hours and up to 250 hours of standby time.

It comes with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of ROM which is easily upgraded through the use of microSD cards. The Pro is powered by a 400 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201 processor. The Treo Pro operates on Quad GSM and Tri UMTS bands. It’s capable of transmitting data over GPRS, EDGE and highs speed HSDPA capable networks. For further connectivity, the Treo Pro has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g support with various security measures. In fact it even has one touch Wi-Fi access. The Pro also comes with full Bluetooth 2.0 support as well as an IR port. There is also built in GPS. The Treo Pro seems to have it all.

On the software side of things, the Pro is a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition device. This means that it comes fully installed with all the productivity and multimedia tools you need to get started right away. Included with the Window’s Mobile OS itself are most of the features that PC users may be familiar with from their own Windows set up at home, just scaled down to mobile versions.

• ActiveSync
• PIM (Personal Information Management) Features: Alarm Clock, Voice Command, Calculator, File Explorer, Task Manager, Calendar, Communications Manager, Contacts, Notes, etc.
• Games – Preloaded and downloadable
• Internet Explorer Mobile – With full browser options such as bookmarks and streaming media. Capable of displaying WAP 2.0 and HTML web pages, with customizable views.
• Messaging – Chat style SMS and MMS as well as Instant Messaging
• Microsoft Office Mobile Professional 6.1 - Create, edit, and send Microsoft Word and Excel and view and send PowerPoint and PDF files. Also supports One Note.
• Email Support – Including POP3 and IMAP HTML clients, as well as Outlook and Lotus Notes synchronization. Microsoft Direct Push, Xpress Mail and Good Mobile Messaging also supported.
• Pictures and Videos – Including slideshow and digital photo album.
• Windows Live
• Windows Media Player Mobile – capable of playing WMV, MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, AAC+, and WMA content as well as native playlist support. MP3 ringtones also supported.

There are many, many more features available for the Pro out of the box, but there are also an infinite amount of third party applications for free and purchase that can be used with the Treo Pro. The Pro can act as a hub for all of your business and personal needs, all in one small device that you can carry around in your pocket.

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