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Palm Treo Pro
Business users will surely get interested with the Palm Treo Pro. It features a sleek touch screen that perfectly combined with a full QWERTY keyboard, showered with the best available features. The Palm Treo Pro eliminated the clunky design of previous models, resorting to a sleeker frame that measures 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.5 inches and weighs 4.7 ounces, and it can easily be slid inside the pants pocket.
The Palm Treo Pro includes a 2.5-inch TFT touch screen with a 320×320-pixel resolution. It also included a customizable Today Screen which gives users a one-touch access to wireless options, upcoming appointments, e-mail, and Google search. It also included a screensaver which shows time and missed calls and new text messages.
Below the display is a very easy to use navigation array composed of the soft keys, Talk and End buttons, OK button, shortcut keys to the Start menu, Calendar and Inbox. It also included a navigation toggle with select which will flash every time there’s a voice mail.
On the other hand, the QWERTY keyboard is a little bit cramped because of its size, and although it is still a commendable feature, some have considered taking it off to completely suit the style of a business phone. The left spine of the phone is where the volume rocker and side key are located while the Wi-Fi power button is on the right side. The power button and silent ringer switch are on top while the microUSB port and 3.5 headphone jack are located on the bottom. On the back side is the camera lens and side speaker.
Much of the latest in the Treo Pro is on the design, but the features are basically the same. It runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition with the full Microsoft Office Mobile Suite for editing native Word and Excel documents, and viewing PowerPoint presentations. It also includes the Internet Explorer Mobile, Windows Live integration, OneNote Mobile, a PDF reader, and the WorldMate Pro travel suite. Other productivity applications include the voice recorder, a Zip manager, Sprite Backup, a calculator, and a Task Manager and it is equipped with 128MB RAM and 256MB storage.
Synchronization of the e-mail with the Outlook is possible with the Microsoft Direct Push Technology. Users can also configure the Treo Pro for accessing POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts. It is also preloaded with the Windows Live Messenger.
The Treo Pro offers quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, speed dial, smart dialing, conference calling, and text and multimedia messaging. It also included the Bluetooth 2.0 which supports mono and stereo Bluetooth headsets, hands-free kits, object exchange, and dial-up networking. It supports 3G, and it has an integrated, one-touch Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) for surfing the Web. Treo Pro is also integrated with GPS, with QuickGPS application, which downloads the latest satellite information, Google Maps, which provides directions, local search and traffic updates, and TeleNav, which includes text- and voice-guided directions and a fuel price finder.
Multimedia features include a Windows Media Player 10 Mobile and a flash-less 2-megapixel camera with 8x zoom and video-recording capabilities. The picture quality was a little disappointing. Still, the phone is not really meant for multimedia.