Palm chose HTC over Inventec for Treo Pro?
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 23rd 2008 11:02AM
posted Aug 23rd 2008 11:02AM
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posted Aug 23rd 2008 11:02AM
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Why is this a surprise? It was said that the Treo Pro will have the HTC Task Manager. That should've given away the fact that HTC is the one making the Treo Pro for Palm.
Will the Treo Pro have a mini-usb connector for its syncing/charging? I hope so! Those proprietary Palm connectors are very much "teh sux".
Yes, it uses a mini-USB port for syncing and charging. Unlike most of HTC's devices, it will also have a separate 3.5-mm headset jack.
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Ah crap. I was looking forward to this thing. The only thing HTC knows how to do really well is cut corners and shaft the consumer in the process.
@Blowfish64: This is not one of those cookie-cutter devices from HTC that every carrier will get branded with a different model (aka Kaiser/TyTN II/Tilt, etc.). The Treo Pro is built by HTC based on Palm's specs and requirements so they can't cut that many corners. In fact, the Treo 750 was also built by HTC and it was a decent device. I had the Treo 750 and sold it because I couldn't get use to Palm's excessive hacking of the WM OS - I preferred HTC devices on the software side though not on the hardware side. I expect the Treo Pro to also feel different from HTC's current lineup.
Whethere you like/dislike HTC, you have to at least give them props for 1) creating unique designs, 2) making Windows Mobile a viable platform, and 3) getting something out that is dinstinctively different from past Palm designs...
How is it that no one realizes that is a totally photoshopped picture? Someone clearly layered the HTC logo on the back of that phone. How does that become news??
We made the picture. The news was the DigiTimes article, not the picture.
If you are not joking, you are very dumb my friend.
Nope...just proving that someone would flame me. Point proven, thanks!
Nope, not dumb. Just proving that someone would flame me. Thanks for proving that point!
I sense that genius is somewhere near.
In agreement with RCC2k8
When you open the Treo Pro it even has a little card that says "Inspired by and Designed in California" --so Palm does the designing/engineering (to some degree) and HTC executes. Palm is still doing their OS mods to it, which is really the bigger deal about Palm WM devices imo.
@doubleu
It uses microUSB
It doesn't sound like HTC is competing against itself, it sounds like it's going to sell more phones that are Android compatible.
If Palm wants to remain competitive, they should make an Android device.
Hey,
Maybe that's what Nova is! Android with Palm "enhancements" to bring it back to BT1.0, limit it to VGA rez cams, 32mbRAM, and a 1K clipboard. Pretty exciting I think.
HTC isn't competing with itself. It's just putting it's eggs in all the baskets instead of only one. They used to be an OEM manufacturer for HP's PDA's too
I'll admit that some of HTC's models are of shoddy quality, but treo fans are notably hardcore about their zfavorite PDA/phone, and HTC and palm know this. The treo 750 was simply a Hermes in a different shell, but was well known in circles to be built on a completely higher level of quality than the tytn/8525 was built.
Palm has already announced it won't be using Android. It's goal in creating Palm OS II/Nova is to give it an operating system that it controls.
The company that will primarily control Android is Google, and a truck-load of other companies will have a say in its development. Pal didn't want to be part of a committee debating what goes into the operating system that will power its devices.
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We ain't talking about Android. If you are going to spam your URL at least be on topic!