Comments on: Palm Treo Pro Review

The Treo Pro is Palm's second new device of 2008. The Treo Pro brings something to Palm's lineup that has been sorely needed in recent times, a dramatically refreshed smartphone that delivers a modern new look with the features to match. The Treo Pro runs Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 and also makes its mark as the thinnest Treo smartphone to date. It further enhances its profile with a pleasant amount of innovative new features packed into the Palm's most attractive new design in some time.

Unlike many past Palm smartphone introductions the Treo Pro is premiering as an unlocked model first in most markets. The device will be made available online at Palm.com for $549 USD beginning sometime this fall. Being an unlocked device it comes with a higher than normal price tag because of the absence of carrier subsidies and discounts. However, customers do gain the option of bringing their own SIM card and phone plan to use on the GSM network (AT&T or T-Mobile in the US) of their own choice.

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Not hardware-graphics enabled?

SeldomVisitor @ 8/29/2008 4:41:47 AM #

== "...With a 400MHz clock speed you would expect a
== speedier device, however on an overall basis the
== Treo Pro felt slower than its recent counterpart
== the Treo 800w with its 333 MHz chip..."

Rumor has it - and I cannot remember WHERE I read it (here?) - is that the Pro does not have hardware acceleration for graphics turned on (assuming it has the inherent capability in the first place).

Why one ODM would turn it on and one would not may speak towards difference in philosophy on robustness.

Didn't some poster here discuss this hardware 800 teak here?

RE: Not hardware-graphics enabled?

SeldomVisitor @ 8/29/2008 4:42:42 AM #

Sigh..."teak"==>"tweak"...

RE: Not hardware-graphics enabled?

JackG @ 8/29/2008 12:54:25 PM #

Since HTC makes the Mogul and now the Treo Pro, they've already shown their history of slow graphics. And I know because I owned a Mogul for a couple of months before I got so tired of the problems that I convinced Sprint to let me move to the Centro. I don't know who makes the 800w that I now have, but I suspect it's not HTC.

RE: Not hardware-graphics enabled?

SeldomVisitor @ 8/29/2008 1:06:25 PM #

As noted someplace else, HTC isn't stupid.

That is to say, they had their reasons for NOT (simply) enabling the hardware acceleration.

Power?

Bugginess of Qualcomm display drivers?

NOT using Qualcomm chips?

[I think someone posted that they DID use Qualcomm chips, though]

I don't know why they aren't using that.

But they're not stupid so I'm sure they have their reasons.

Nice Review

LiveFaith @ 8/29/2008 6:58:29 AM #

Wow. I would love to have this phone. sounded great till you got to the software part. Get Palm OS on this thing and we would be in binness!

I still don't believe it even if Ryan says so. I will believe it has 3.5mm audio when I plug my own buds in. :-D

Pat Horne

Krackho likes it

Gekko @ 8/30/2008 3:35:48 PM #

http://www.thestreet.com/video/10435193/index.html?puc=newshome#10435193

RE: Krackho likes it

SeldomVisitor @ 8/30/2008 4:05:54 PM #

No...THIS:

- http://tinyurl.com/6l4bqq

Giggle.

[strangely, Jim Cramer (the guy who founded/owns TheStreet.com) apparently just said on his Fast Money that Palm is, while not necessarily a Buy, possibly worth looking at. No connection, of course...]

intell?

stuvosler @ 9/7/2008 12:24:12 PM #

Does anyone know of any hard plans for the Treo Pro to be offered with the Palm OS?

If I have a Treo 700P with Verizon, is my only Palm OS option the Centro now?

RE: intell?

hkklife @ 9/7/2008 3:39:31 PM #

No hard or soft plans to offer it.

Right now, Palm's only "current" Palm OS product is the Centro. They MAY release a Garnet-based Centro 2 sometime early next year but for right now we have zero rumors on that.

Your only option right now is either to get one of the leftover Verizon 755p's or go with a Centro. Regardless of which choice you make, either one will be leaps beyond the 700p.

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p

RE: intell?

SeldomVisitor @ 9/7/2008 3:47:32 PM #

Au contraire - the rumors are starting up hot and heavy for PalmOS 6.

Origined right on this web site, as a matter of fact!

Can't have a PalmOS 6 without a PalmOS 6 device!

Giggle.

usability review

encorbatao @ 9/10/2008 2:02:19 PM #

One thing that I love when using my treo 680 is how easy and fast is to find a contact and dial or send an SMS message. I find it also very user friendly when it comes to check missed calls, alarms, etc. And also I love that almost everything can be done with the dialpad (hate the stylus) and single-handed.

It would be very interesting that in future reviews of new devices you include a video on how to perform these all-day-long activities: dial number, activate speaker and mute, send - check - answer an SMS, write an email, check missed calls, visit a webpage, take a photo or a video, etc. It would provide an idea of usability and general speed of the device and **very important** ¿is it a two-hands device or can be operated single-handed?

Anyhow, thank you for the magnificent review... I am considering a hard upgrade and Treo Pro makes me wonder if it can be a good option...

Treo Pro!

ChaplainBill @ 11/6/2008 2:08:02 PM #

I don't understand what it means by unlocked/Locked?! Do you thing the Pro will ever be available for Verizon Acct holders? Or is that not possible?

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