Treo Pro Goes Sprint 3G

Palm Inc. (PALM) and Sprint (S) announced the Treo Pro smartphone will be available for the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network on March 15.

Treo Pro will be available through all Sprint retail channels for $199.99 with a two-year subscriber agreement (after a $100 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate, with an Everything plan with data or a $30 per month or higher data add-on). It also will be available through the Palm Store and Palm’s B2B sales organization beginning March 16.

Treo Pro is the first Palm phone available with Internet Explorer Mobile 6, with options for either a mobile-optimized or desktop-like Internet browsing experience on the Sprint 3G network. It provides a high-resolution color touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard with a removable battery that provides up to five hours of talk time. Treo Pro also offers integrated GPS, enabling Sprint Navigation with turn-by-turn directions, maps and point-of-interest searches for locations such as restaurants or stores. Additional Sprint-exclusive content available on Treo Pro includes: Sprint TV, Sprint Music and Pocket Express, which retrieves customized, up-to-date Web content such as sports, weather, news, money and movie information with the push of a button.