Palm Treo Pro (850)

Palm’s Treo 850, following much speculation, is to be launched early next month under the brand name ‘Treo Pro’. The device will be a 3G phone with Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 but is let down by a rather small screen more reminiscent of models from 2006!

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Boasting a sleak black design the Treo Pro is supposed to be Palm’s new intelligent phone and a flagship product for the company. You will therefore be surprised by some of the features:

• 400Mhz CPU
• 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM — i.e. enough for performing multiple demanding tasks at once
• Tri-band 3G, quad-band GSM/GPRS
• 320×320 pixels touchscreen
• built-in GPS
• 2 megapixel camera (why not more?)
• microUSB connector
• 3.5mm audio jack
• 1500 mAh battery (wow, that should provide tons of juice)
• there’s a WiFi switch on the side (ultra cool!)
• Preinstalled software includes Adobe Reader, Embertec Java, Telenav and Sprite Backup.
• microSD slot supports cards of up to 32GB

A 2 megapixel camera? a 320 x 320 pixel screen? Have we gone back in time? Some of the specs are pretty good but was it really not possible for Palm to fork out for a 5MP camera and a decent screen?

The Treo will be available in early August 2008, not that I care.

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