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Palm Officially announces the Treo Pro

After many, many leaks, blog posts, videos, and commentaries around the web, I guess Palm decided to cave and officially announce the Treo Pro.

Meet the Treo Pro Smartphone

The new Treo Pro, announced today, packs a host of features like Wi-Fi and GPS into a sleek and elegant smartphone. (Wi-Fi and GPS fees depend on your coverage and data plan - click here for details.) Running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, this worldphone aims to keep the IT department and end users equally happy and productive.

Get a closer look in this video featuring three of the Treo Pro's very proud parents -- Stephane Maes (VP of product marketing), Peter Skillman (VP of design), and John Moses (VP of customer relations) - discussing the Treo Pro's thoughtful balance of powerful business-friendly features and surprisingly simple design.

Mike A. - Senior Product Manager

Specs:
Operating System : Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition
Processor : Qualcomm® MSM7201 400MHz
Display : 320×320 transflective color TFT flush touchscreen
Cellular Radio : HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM radio
- Tri-band UMTS – 850MHz, 1900MHz, 2100MHz
-Quad-band GSM – 850MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with WPA, WPA2, and 801.1x authentication
Built-in GPS
Bluetooth version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate
Memory : 256MB (100MB user available), 128MB RAM
Camera : 2.0 megapixels with up to 8x digital zoom and video capture
Battery : Removable, rechargeable 1500mAh lithium-ion; Up to 5.0 hours talk time and up to 250 hours standby
Expansion : microSDHC cards (up to 32GB supported)
Connector : MicroUSB 2.0 for synchronization and charging
Audio : 3.5mm stereo headset jack
Dimensions Length: 4.49″, Width: 2.36″, Depth: 0.53″, Weight: 4.69 oz
[The Official Palm Blog]
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Maxell Dual Auto Power Adapter Free Today on ThingFling

If you have as many gadgets as I do, you can never have enough power adapters. This is a nice DC-power dual adapter, which has a rotating plug. Get it Free Today Only at ThingFling! Pay only the shipping.

Product Description

Here we go Thing Flingers! This is the Maxell Dual Auto Power Adapter compatible with any devices. This dual power adapter is not only an iPod item (yes, it works with all of them), this is an auto power adapter to multiply the 12V outlet in your car. You can charge your iPod at the same time you charge your cell phone or power your radar detector, GPS or any 12V device. Now i ask you: how could you live without it?

Lowest retail price we found is $3.00 plus shipping. At Thing Fling you get 1 for free PLUS an nice extra gift and pay only shipping.

• Compatible with all portable players;
• Double your lighter's capacity;
• Safety caps;
• Replaceable 3amp fuse;
• DC 12 volt.

Fur use with:

• Radar detectors;
• Celular phones;
• Spolights;
• Cd players;
• Any 12 volt accessory

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HTC Touch Pro to have Multi-Touch...who cares?

According to WMPoweruser.com, the upcoming and much anticipated HTC Touch Pro will have multi-touch capabilities. This is one of the major features of the iPhone that makes navigation sweet.

Touch Diamond owners will know that the navi-wheel on the front of the device is capacitive, and can measure movement without actually rotating. Like many HTC devices, it seems the Touch Diamond and Pro have hidden features, and pretty tasty ones indeed. Using an application called Nav Debug Tool by HTC, this video shows not only is the navi-wheel capacitive, but that the whole front of the device can track finger movements, and even two fingers independently.

So far there is no know feature on the Touch Diamond/ Pro that exploits this, but once our developers get their hands on the API it wont be too long. This also promises that even current generation devices with resistive screens will be able to take advantage of multi-touch features in WM7.

Of course for mobile software developers, their titles will most likely have to be updated to take advantage of this new WM technology.

I think all of this is cool, but sometimes wonder how long our fascination with "touch-friendliness" will last. Is it just the latest fad, or is it here to stay? Sometimes using the stylus is just easier. I don't know...I'm still trying to decide how to feel about it.

[wmpoweruser.com] via [MobileTech Addicts]
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HTC Touch Pro unboxing

Anyone who is a Windows Mobile fan, or maybe even if you're not will get pretty excited about the HTC Touch Pro. As you probably know, this new device is an evolution of the HTC Diamond, providing the "Touch-Flo" interface, but with a slide out keyboard like the TyTN and Mogul series phones for easy text input.

Tracy and Matt's Blog have an unboxing video and brief demonstration of the device. They promise to have also a review in the coming days.



I'm pretty anxious to see this phone and will "patiently" wait until it arrives on Verizon's CDMA network :( , which will most likely be a while.

See the HTC site for the product specs and features.

[Tracy and Matt's Blog]

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StarBurn CD/DVD/Blu Ray burner free for today only at GOTD!

RocketDivision's StarBurn is free at GiveAwayOfTheDay for today only. This is a great utility for burning CDs, DVDs and now Blu Ray DVDs.

It has network support so you can burn using the drive from a networked PC. I tried most of it's features quickly and it works as documented. I especially like the ability to mount an ISO as a virtual drive.

StarBurn retails for $495, so I would suggest grabbing this one before the end of the day. You can see the entire list of features here.

If you're not familiar with GiveAwayOfTheDay, the offer a new item each day completely free of charge. Many times it's junk, but other times it's nice. The drawbacks are:

1. You must install it the same day
2. Upgrades or updates later will cost you

[GOTD]

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