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This new Palm Treo Pro is a redesign product for the Treo line, and it is very welcome on the market. With its dimensions: 4.4 inches high by 2.3 inches wide and 0.5 inch deep, the stylish design and the small weight (4.7 ounces), this is the new attraction of smartphones' market. You can easily slip this Treo Pro into a pocket easily, and it is one of the few models which combines a full keyboard with a touchscreen.

It has a black eye-catching case, but it has a high tendency to hold smudges. This Treo Pro has a 2.5 inch TFT touchscreen, with a 320x320 resolution, which offers a bright, crisp visibility, but many voices say that the colores are a little bit washed out. The touchscreen gives you access to the wireless connection settins, at the appointments and lets you check the e-mail, make Google searches and also customize the background and the theme.



The navigation array is redesigned, you get the soft keys, End and Talk button, the OK button, shortcuts to Start menu, Inbox and Calendar and a navigation toggle with a center key for selections. The controls are easy to use, and this Treo Pro is pretty cool inside the line, but when compared with the competition it doesn't offer anything revolutionary.

For checking the e-mail you have Direct Push from Microsoft, which means real-time message delivery and automatic synchronization with the Outlook features, all via Exchange Server. Treo Pro can be also configured for POP3 and IMAP e-mail accounts, and it is capable of 3G too. It supports the 850/1900 HSDPA bands, which means that you can get up to 3.5G speeds. GPS is integrated for users' navigation needs, and Treo Pro includes an utility, QuickGPS, which offers you the latest satellite images via Internet connection.



The 2 megapixel camera has 8x zoom and it can record movies too. Objects appear in images clearly defined but the colors look washed out. It seems that no matter how much you adjust white balance and brightness, you won't get a decent picture. Video quality is acceptable for short clips, the battery lasts up to 5 hours and 10 days on standby time, and you should know that Treo Pro has a digital SAR rating of 1.5 watts per kilogram.

Palm Treo Pro provides productivity and communication tools for business users and offers a lot of wireless options, like Wi-Fi, HSDPA, Bluetooth and GPS, but it is expensive and sluggish sometimes. The keyboard is a little cramped and it doesn't seem too professional. The Palm Treo Pro offers some improvements, but these can be called improvements only inside the line and between the company's products, and it actually doesn't offer anything revolutionary. Moreover, it costs more than its competitors products, which may make it a hard to sell product.