Is the Palm Treo Pro coming to Sprint?

by Darren Murph, posted Oct 18th 2008 at 5:28PM

Back in late August, we heard whispers that a CDMA Treo Pro could be in the works. Since then, we haven't heard a peep on any progress.... until now, that is. The eagle-eyed mobile mavens over at WMExperts happened to notice a peculiar "Sprint Treo850e" sucking down 160kbps with .229s of latency on the spcsdns.net network while checking out mobile speed tests. No surprise that the Treo 850 is better known as the Treo Pro, but finding that one is sneaking around on Sprint somewhere is. C'mon Sprint, how's about a joint release with the Touch Pro?

Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Sprint, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: cmda, palm, palm os, PalmOs, rumor, sprint, treo, treo 850, treo 850e, treo pro, Treo850, Treo850e, TreoPro

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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egloskerry @ Oct 18th 2008 5:33PM

Someone probably just changed the name of their phone or something.

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DssTrainer @ Oct 18th 2008 5:47PM

Yes Please! I'm thinkin this will be the next phone I get.. but it needs to hurry its ass up

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Stephan D. @ Oct 18th 2008 6:02PM

I believe this is for AT&T.

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doubleu @ Oct 18th 2008 6:38PM

wat

spcsdns.net is AT&T?

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zephxiii @ Oct 18th 2008 7:05PM

TBH, i've ran benchmarks on mspeed before, from my TyTn, on ATT, with a domain that showed up as myvzw.com, so it is not impossible that this is just a screwup on dslreports domain lookup.

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zephxiii @ Oct 18th 2008 7:16PM

Actually it just happened:

http://www.xti9.com/att/oopsmspeed.jpg

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Rollins @ Oct 18th 2008 8:37PM

If Sprint gets the Pro before Verizon even gets the 800w, I might cry.

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SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Oct 21st 2008 10:58AM

that makes two of us. we can cry together.....in a completely none homosexual way.

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DssTrainer @ Oct 18th 2008 9:00PM

I'm just happy to see Dan Hesse is finally moving sprint to get some cutting edge phones... finally showing up Verizon like they have been doing to Sprint for the past 3+ years.

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james rose @ Oct 18th 2008 9:32PM

please yes please let this be true

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MICHAEL @ Oct 18th 2008 9:59PM

I WORK FOR SPRINT AND THERE IS A SKU FOR THE DEVICE IN THE SYSTEM
PTR850HK....YAY FOR SPRINT....HOPEFULLY IT DOES COME OUT QUICK...THERE HAVE BEEN SKUS BEFORE IN THE SYSTEM AND THEN THE DEVICE WOULD GET SHELVED...HOORAY SPRINT : )

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Scott @ Oct 19th 2008 1:47PM

"If Sprint gets the Pro before Verizon even gets the 800w, I might cry"

Or start systematically egging VZW stores...

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SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Oct 21st 2008 11:01AM

omg i hate Verizon if this is true. they keep releasing all these stupid touch iphone knock off dumbphones when i would gladly pay full retail to upgrade to a Treo 800w or Pro from my Moto Q9c. i need me some WinMo Pro action cause this Standard just isnt cutting it anymore.

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Holly @ Nov 13th 2008 4:09PM

Any news on the Palm Pro being released to Sprint? I've asked customer service, but they're rather clueless. I hope it happens, or I just may switch providers for the Palm Pro.

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Holly @ Nov 13th 2008 4:16PM

I wrote Sprint and told them I'd leave them for AT&T if the latter gets the Pro first. I got a response (standard) but am enclosing it below in case anyone's interested (though it still doesn't answer my question....:

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Thank you for contacting Sprint. I understand your concern regarding the handset.

I understand you are very happy with the feedback on the Palm Pro handset & are interested in buying it.

Currently we are not offering this handset model. However, I have forwaded your feedback to the appropriate department. Our specialist will look into this matter.

We keep introducing new handsets regularly and keep making enhancements to the existing handsets. You will see promotional campaigns related to the launch date and the features of the latest handset on our Web site
and other promotional media.

Thank you again for contacting Sprint. We appreciate your business.

Sincerely,
Anson A.