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Palm Treo Pro: A sweet Windows smartphone

The BlackBerry, iPhone, and T-Mobile G1 may be the kings of smartphone cool, but if you ask me, they all share one big shortcoming: They don't run Windows Mobile.

| Product review | Mobile & wireless | Personal tech | 10/21/08 at 3:42 pm |


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Palm's Treo Pro unlocked in bid to lower roaming costs

Two very different tales are circulating about Palm Inc. and its new Treo Pro smartphone these days. One story, from Palm and some analysts, is that the new Treo Pro's unlocked feature offers a cost-effective way for international business travelers to dramatically lower roaming costs. The other story, from another group of analysts, is that Palm had to unlock the phone because it could not find a carrier willing to sell it.

| News | Mobile & wireless | Personal tech | 10/13/08 at 3:38 pm |


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Product review: Palm Treo Pro smartphone

Having enjoyed success with its sporty Centro models, Palm is taking some of the lessons it learned there back to its Treo business line: The Palm Treo Pro integrates certain Centro design elements with the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system and with the more robust features of contemporary BlackBerrys to produce a sleek smart phone built with the image-conscious corporate user in mind.



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