Palm Is Back In The Game: Treo Pro Leaked

Palm leaked a new handset, the Treo Pro, part of the company's line-up for 2009. Deemed as "the best looking Palm ever," the Treo Pro will still use Windows Mobile instead of Palm's long-awaited Nova operating system.

The initial leak happened yesterday on Palm's website in form of a flash presentation and has since been taken down. Treo Pro has a much slimmer body than its predecessors and runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 over 3G.

Previously thought as the Treo 850, the leaked handset's design is somehow similar to one of Palm's past models, the Centro. Treo Pro features a glossy black and white color scheme with welcomed improvements like a 3.5mm headphone jack, wireless button on the side and a microUSB connector.

Featuring a 2.4-inch 320 by 320 pixels touchscreen display and running on a 400MHz with 100MB of RAM, the new device will use MicroSD cards for memory expansion. A 2-megapixel camera is also present on the back of the handset.

The release date of the Treo Pro has not been announced -- but may be soon. The speculations are further acknowledged by reports from this week, saying that Palm placed a 5 million-unit order for 2009 with Compal Communications, an Asian mobile phone manufacturer. These reports also confirmed the presence of Windows Mobile on the devices ordered, although Treo die-hard fans are still waiting a device based on Nova, Plam's future operating system based on Linux , expected in late 2009.

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