Palm Treo Pro is a thin sleek designed smart phone with a high-resolution color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard. Either you want to reply to email, surf the web, make appointments and contacts, and use Wi-Fi or GPS, you can just hit the button on this elegant gadget. Palm Treo Pro also has an increased security system, easier device management and access to information on corporate networks. One-touch Wi-Fi button let you easily access fast connections of 802.11b/g. Sound great features right?

Palm just released Palm Centro, the smallest smart phone yet where they’ve managed to fit a lot in a small package. If you look the handset closer, you will easily find that the Palm Centro is a smaller, more modern looking Treo with many of the same features, including a QWERTY keypad with tiny keys. The design seems targeted at a younger, less business oriented group of users attracted to sleek smart phones such as the BlackBerry Pearl or iPhone.

More detail about Palm’s upcoming PDA phone, Gandolf, emerges. Looks like I got incorrect information before. I’ve said that the phone will be based on CDMA / EVDO, but according to trusted source, the handset will run on GSM network. Even the high-speed internet access, 3G/HSDPA, will be supported. Other corrections are the 2 megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

Furthermore, the Gandolf will have a technical name of Palm Treo 5xx. It’d be released in two different versions. One with Windows Mobile 6.0 OS and touchscreen display. And other with new Palm OS and standard display. The similarities include a 2.4-inch (QVGA) 65K colors display, a 256MB of onboard memory with microSD card slot for external storage, a 64MB RAM, and A2DP support. Weighs 135 grams and measures 117 x 65 x 13.8mm, Palm Gandolf PDA Phone will be available in several different colors.

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After Gandolf, here comes 800W. Hmmm… no cool title this time? Well anyway, this slim and slick PDA phone from Palm is powered by Windows Mobile 6 operating system and sports an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera module, WiFI connectivity, a 256MB Flash ROM, and a 128MB RAM. Along with a rechargeable 1200 mAh battery, these are the only info I have at the moment. I’ll inform you as soon as I got the detail about specs, pricing, and of course, availability.

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The upcoming pocket PC phone from Palm looks… strange. Sorry Palm, your Gandolf does have a great features, such as full QWERTY keyboard, high-speed EVDO connectivity, microSD card slot, integrated camera module, and Bluetooth connectivity; but you should keep the main controller button’s color at the middle black instead of silver/white. Anyway, if you really want this PDA phone, it’s still a long way to go since the schedule time for the release is the fourth quarter of 2007. Suiggested price is around $200.

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Google has just released Mobile Google Maps for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. By installing the software, you’ll have instant GPS on your hand. It’ll display your current location at the center of the screen and you can easily plot your travel to your preferred destination from there. Viewing snapshots of specific location from GPS satellites is also possible.

Since the software is made for WM5 OS, you can install and run Mobile Google Maps on any WM5-based devices, including BlackBerry, Palm, and most JSME handhelds.

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Palm Treo 700W Smartphone is packed with a bunch of unique software enhancement, including:

• Today Screen enhancements, which feature the ability to “dial by name” with a few keystrokes on the keyboard, perform a web search directly from the Today Screen and perform one-touch dialing with personalized photo speed dials
• Ability to manage a call directly from the Today Screen and stay on top of voicemail with on-screen, VCR-like icons, such as rewind, delete and fast-forward controls for easy navigation
• Ability to ignore a call and quickly compose a text message such as “In a meeting” or “Can’t talk right now” by selecting the “Ignore with text” option from the incoming-call screen.

Palm Treo 700W Smartphone features:

• EV-DO access for fast downloads of data, email and large attachments
• Robust Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system
• Intel(R) XScale(R) technology-based processor
• Ability to send and receive email from multiple corporate and personal email accounts, with built-in support for Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile, Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL, and other POP3 and IMAP accounts
• On-device access to Microsoft Office Word Mobile, Office Excel Mobile and Office PowerPoint Mobile for viewing, editing and creating Word and Excel Mobile documents, as well as viewing PowerPoint Mobile presentations. In addition, with Picsel PDF viewer (included on installation CD), customers can view PDF documents
• Unified messaging application, including email, SMS and MMS
• Support for Wireless Sync to provide the convenience of push email and easy access to personal information-management tools, such as contacts and calendar, as well as enterprise tools, such as device management and file synchronization
• Enough memory to manage business and personal digital needs in one place with 128MB of memory and 60MB of dedicated user storage.
• New 1.3-megapixel camera to shoot crisp, clear digital images and videos
• Integrated Bluetooth(R) 1.2 wireless technology for communicating with compatible headsets, car kits, computers and printers equipped with Bluetooth technology
• Removable battery and non-volatile memory
• Voice Command for voice dialing
• Expansion card slot (SD, SDIO, and MultiMediaCard compatible)
• 240×240 transflective (TFT) screen.

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Colligan divulged this information during the Palm’s earnings conference call. Some notable highlights from the conference call given by Mr. Colligan include: in the current quarter Palm shipped 602K Treos to carriers and holds a 78% market share of the US handheld market. He also announced that the 700w will ship in early January.

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The smartphone will be launched across multiple markets in Asia and Europe in Q2 2006.

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