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hey guys jon rettinger from john for lakers calm a review for you of the palm treo pro so let me go over the specs on device or at least some of the ones you care about it's running windows mobile 6.1 it's got Wi-Fi it's got bluetooth it's got GPS it's got all everything you'd expect a high-end windows mobile business phone to have and really puts it in a very thin thin package you can view pdf's you can edit Word Excel PowerPoint documents it's got 3g and edge for global support 3g just for 18 key bands in a USA and I mean it's just so thin in tiny so let me go ahead and give you a quick size comparison move the camera down here's the palm treo pro to compare it to another device of a similar form factor here's the blackberry bold significantly thinner thinner on that side let's compare it to sort of some more phones in the mix we've got the blackberry storm stack them on top of each other actually it's almost exactly the same size as a blackberry storm there's a thickness comparison for you and let's add everybody's favorite or at least my favorite phone the iPhone to the mix so size-wise compared to the iphone it's much thinner size-wise appears to be a little bit thicker but not by much and for another windows mobile comparison here's the AT&T fuze with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard a little bit wider and significantly thinner due to the lack of slide out keyboard so I've been a trio user in the past I had a treo 600 I have a treo 650 even more recently I had a treo 750 for AT&T so I've tried the palm operating system amount of tried windows mobile and while the palm operating system for its time was amazing fat solid and robust it's aged significantly and palm has moved away a little bit from their core operating system to accommodating windows mobile I'm admittedly not the biggest windows mobile aficionado or fan out there and I was expecting really big things from palm you know and a four-factor this nice this small miss pocketable actually hoping they were going to WoW me with little tweaks in here there to make Windows Mobile much more usable and they really didn't you're left with standard Windows Mobile that you find on any other device even the HTC fuze for example put the htc's touchflo 3d on it for some 3d navigation and to make Windows Mobile just easier to use palm really did not so that was definitely disappointing you're left with just a standard windows mobile interface which is really showing its age significantly in my opinion positive the device though I mean the size and design of it really is the most beautiful device Pop has ever done I really give them credit for it they crammed a line to a teeny tiny little package and it's gorgeous too it really is a nice device everything down from the box which you saw me unbox to the phone itself I'm a really doing a fantastic job as of yet a carrier has not picked this up so it's only available unlocked from palm themselves with which I believe is one hundred five hundred and forty nine dollars but they're rumors that there may be a cdma variant coming to sprint so if your sprint customer and you're looking at this envy you may want to hold off and it could be coming your way soon so guys you know in conclusion can I recommend this device if your windows mobile business user and you're looking for something thin and profitable it's a great alternative it is very expensive cuz it's unsubsidized as I mentioned before at 549 bucks so it's really not a bargain I think there are better deals out there for phones reception wise it was fine add a little bit of white noise on my end and people talking T so they could hear an echo but nothing too bad that was only in one or two instances and I use the phone for a quite a while it doesn't ship with opera mobile 9.5 or anything like that you're stuck with pocket internet explorer so if you do get this download a third-party browser please pocket and an explorer is aging so badly I mean its aging like I want so that's just alone I mean just looks bad so I can't recommend a device to everybody on a one-to-five scale I give it a solid maybe two and a half and that's really just because of design design is fantastic so my overall taken opinion on the palm treo pro hope it was helpful and if you're looking to get the phone you know shoot any questions you might have my way put them down below and I will check them out this device has to go back to Palm cells be the last video i will make actually having it unfortunately but i hope this was helpful and yes the last point I want to make is in regards to the keyboard here I get a lot of questions about that it is a very small kind of Chiclets and centro stile keys but i just typing on actually very very quickly I don't have the biggest thumbs in the world but you know the relatively decent and I got used to it I think you will too so typing was not an issue you know on the phone so guys jon rettinger with john for lakers calm with the real quick overview and review of the palm treo pro by palm for more information be sure to check out the website hungry ww john for lakers calm and from some exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter see you guys next video bye bye