Palm Treo Pro gets props from Telstra for extreme signal strength
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Sep 4th 2008 9:50AM
posted Sep 4th 2008 9:50AM
For our money, there's really nothing worse than dropping a few hundred bucks on a shiny new 3G toy, taking it home to the Outback, and realizing that we're getting more wallaby meat than we are reception. Happily, Telstra has a pretty unique program in the carrier world -- dubbed "Blue Tick" -- that awards certain devices in its lineup for their killer signal strength, which theoretically makes them more appropriate choices for use in rural and fringe areas where lesser phones might struggle. Interestingly, the Treo Pro is now the first smartphone in Telstra's Blue Tick range -- which they're offering for as little as zilch on a two year contract, by the by -- making it a solid choice for anyone around the world who's looking for a modern WinMo set with enough signal-pulling power to make a Motorola V365 green with envy. Only question is, can we still completely encase it in gold and hold a call?
This will be my new phone the day it comes out
Goodbye Tilt, loving you but looking forward to real keys without a slider
Not so fast buddy. Hopefully your eyes will let you. For some reason Palm(HTC) uses Super DIM screens on the Treo's. Full brightness is about half on a Tilt. Maybe not even that. And,... if you've never used a smaller screen than a Tilt with Windows Mobile Pro you may not dig that either.
You see, looking at your phone with your eyes is what you do first before anything including button pushing. Well, sometimes you can push buttons without looking but not very often. I'm passing on this for screen reasons only and picking up a NAM Touch Diamond from Best Buy. I haven't bought anything from Best Buy in ages.
$0 on a 2-year contract?!!?! Where did this one come from? You hear that, AT&T???
Well, it's not on Telstra's page.
I'm in Oz, and you have to keep in mind that Telstra is still sodding expensive.
It's free on an 80 dollar plan, and that's what you get. 80 dollars worth of calls and text. No cap. Everything else extra cost.
Free on Plan huh, now if they can only make it so that you do not have to sell you house just to pay your Telstra bill we will all be happy.