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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware tour of Palm Treo Pro now you've got to admit that the trio Pro is a really good looking device it's covered in this glossy black finish it's very sleek it's relatively thin it looks good I agree with that and one of the problems is that because of all of this shininess I think they use too much plastic with this it's a very lightweight device and because of that it just feels a little bit cheap so that may be a correct that I have and you do not have the screen is 2.5 inches across and it's 320 by 320 and this is higher resolution that you'll then you'll find on the other palm treo devices such as the 750 or the 700 W or the 700 W X it's the same resolution that you will find on the 800 W which is that sprint trio that was released recently for the business user going down below we have a few buttons we do not have soft key buttons so you'll have to tap with your thumb on the screen to activate soft keys we have a start button here calendar email and ok and sometimes that closes the application on the left and the right we have really interesting looking call start and call end keys I kind of like them out here they're out of the way the d-pad is really fantastic it's got a really good ledge if you can see that that will allow you to feel for it when you're using it one-handed I really like that as compared to something like the HTC touch pro which is really difficult if not impossible to feel for if you're not looking right at the device in the center where it says palm that's where you press ok to select it's a nice big button that has a good response to it let's take a look at this keyboard the keyboard is larger than it is on the Centro but it is still quite small and it feels really cheap if I slide my fingers along the buttons I can feel them move slightly as I pass them which makes it feel a little low quality I'll have to use this for a little while longer to give you a full verdict on the keyboard but so far I'm not terribly impressed okay over on the back which is a fingerprint magnet is the 2 megapixel camera and let me slide off the back it's a little bit tricky here and there's not much on the back except for the soft reset hole which is really awkwardly placed behind the battery and behind the stylus it's right there bad place for the soft reset hole okay over on the left side we have a volume up and down rocker which is kind of made out of Chrome but of course it's plastic to the right of that is the camera button so you hold that down through a few seconds to activate the camera then once inside the camera application you press it down to take the picture over on the bottom we have micro USB which is really weird the only other device that I know of I'm sure there are others that if micro USB is the Motorola q9h it's it's interesting this is an HTC made device and usually HTC devices come with ext USB which is kind of like a proprietary mini USB hybrid anyhow that's kind of annoying because my existing chargers won't work with this device we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack excuse me which is a welcomed addition a lot of phones don't have the have this nowadays and to the right of that is a microphone over to the right we stopped to see the stylus which is a non collapsible stylus that I like it's a it's small and it's dirty and it feels good it's not magnetic like the HTC touch Pro and touch diamond but that's okay going over to the right we have a Wi-Fi button which will turn on and off Wi-Fi and on the top we have a quick way to turn off all of the sounds on the device which is good all the pomp trios have had this it's a great feature and over here we have a on/off button if you hold it down it will turn the phone into flight mode which again this is a quick and easy way to turn off all of the radios if you're going onto an airplane and not have to dig through a bunch of menus and before I sign off I just want to call your attention to this screen saver here right now it says the time and the date though if you have a missed call or a miss SMS or a missed email it will also display this this is really cool because usually when you have a have to check for a notification you actually have to turn on your device which is quite annoying it uses a battery life this way you can just take the phone out of your pocket without turning it on and see if you have any missed calls and you can proceed to turn on the phone if you do or anything like that and as a final note I just want to mention that this screen is a pretty bad screen outside it's completely washed out it looks like it has a white and milky film on it actually really hard to see and even at maximum brightness and you'll see this in the next the color contrast and the quality is just not good unfortunately this is not a good screen and on that note that's it for the hardware tour of the Palm Treo Pro I'll be back with software coming up soon so look out for that that's it for now