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Palm today introduced Treo Pro, a new smartphone powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and includes Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities. Treo Pro will be available from Vodafone and O2 in Europe and from Telstra in Australia, also will be available in an unlocked version in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Treo Pro’s thin design blends a flush, high-resolution color touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard with a removable battery that packs up to five hours of talk time and enough strength for the business user’s needs, offering a powerful yet effortless mobile experience.

The Treo Pro smartphone features including:

• One-touch Wi-Fi button
• Today screen enhancements, Web search directly from the Today screen
• Ringer switch — Silences the device immediately
• Screen saver — Lets users know at a glance — without turning on the device — what time it is and whether they’ve missed a call or have a new SMS/MMS message.
• New voicemail indicator — The center button flashes to let users know that a voicemail is waiting.
• Dedicated email and calendar buttons
• World phone — With high-speed UMTS/HSDPA network capabilities
• Integrated GPS — Users can access maps, turn-by-turn directions and point-of-interest (POI) searches.

Treo Pro will be available in September in Europe through Vodafone (from free to EUR 399 with contract) and O2 (pricing is available from O2 direct sales and online business stores), and in Australia through Telstra (from free with contract). It will be available in the United States in the fall through the Palm online store (http://www.palm.com/store) as well as select Internet, retail and enterprise resellers for a suggested retail price of $549. The U.S. version is unlocked and unsubsidized. Detailed regional pricing is available from local resellers and distributors. Additional Treo Pro availability is scheduled to follow worldwide.

The Treo Pro smartphone comes with an international power charger, microUSB cable and a stereo headset (3.5mm). Other accessories designed exclusively for Treo Pro (sold separately) include a vehicle power charger, leather side case, travel microUSB cable, cradle, extra battery, TTY audio adapter, and replacement styli.

Other than the accidentally releases of press photo shots, slashgear has released an official video demonstration from the company. The Treo Pro will be powered by a 400MHz CPU, it is going to have a 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM and a 320 x 320 resolution display screen. Watch the video after the jump.

Source [Treo-pro] via [slashgear]

After the few Treo Pro leaks on the internet, it looks like Palm is going to announce Treo Pro today. Although there isn’t any press releases issues to us at the moment, official press photos of the new Palm Treo Pro has been sent out from some PR representative. Watch out for the official announcement today, and enjoy the official press photos in high resolution for now.

Together with the accidental flash demo leaked on the Palm website, one of the largest Treo community forum has posted a massive photo gallery of the Palm Treo Pro, previously known as Treo 850w. The Treo Pro will be powered by a 400MHz CPU, it is going to have a 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM and a 320 x 320 resolution display screen. Enjoy the Treo Pro photos after the jump!

The photo set also included a size comparison with Palm Centro, the Treo Pro should be slimmer in terms of thickness.

Specification list:

• Windows Mobile Professional 6.1
• GSM Triband
• EDGE / HSDPA
• Bluetooth
• WiFi
• aGPS
• 400Mhz CPU
• 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM
• 320 x 320 display screen
• 2 megapixel camera
• microUSB connector
• 3.5mm headset jack
• 1500mAh battery

Source [Treo.net.cn] via [Treocentral]

Just few hours after the Treo Pro flash demo has been discovered on Palm website, the flash movie has been taken down from the web server. One forum member in TreoCentral has managed to put up a few more screen capture of it.

Apparently the Treo Pro has a total of 101.18MB program memory, not the 32MB we have read from the past rumor. Before you will need a expansion memory card, you can use the internal 103.05MB memory for your file storage. Like other HTC smartphone, you will have a communication manager with various quick access to toggle Airplane Mode, Phone, Bluetooth and WiFi. The Palm Treo Pro supports up to 32GB of micro SD memory card, the card slot is protected under the battery cover, although you do not need to remove the battery to insert the memory card.

Check out the previous flash demo captured pictures here, which shows you the overall hardware design of the Treo Pro

Source [treocentral]