Sprint Treo Pro officially unavailable again -- for now
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Jan 22nd 2009 3:10PM
posted Jan 22nd 2009 3:10PM
"Sprint inadvertently posted information on Sprint.com regarding an upcoming product, Palm Treo Pro, this morning. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Sprint looks forward to welcoming this exciting, new device into our portfolio as soon as it has been approved through our customary testing process. We will share details on the correct availability date as soon as the standard testing of both the device and its interaction with our network has concluded. Thank you for your interest in Sprint products."
nothing nail in sprint? how many nails can this coffin take.
edit: Should read Another
How would this be considered a "nail in the coffin"? Companies do crap like this all the time. It's a stretch to think this would negatively impact their business in any significant way.
Especially since nobody really cares about the Treo Pro with the Pre on the horizon, and the people who do will just want it to be as solid as possible, to hold them out until WebOS is mature.
The treo pro is so scared of the Pre that it just gave up and accepted the red ring of death pre-emptively.
Haha good one. Seriously though the Pre hasn't even been release yet it may have some serious bugs when it comes out. Let's just not put it on a pedestal yet.
Yeah I played with the pro and it was responsive and delicious.... Like a sandwich....
@hackettman:
If you like "responsive" sandwiches, we will not be having lunch together anytime soon. :)
they should just put WebOS on this thing and then release it!
P.S. Engadget please fix the comment section. All the posts just remain Neutral, however when you click on the timestamp of the post it shows the correct "rank"
They've also being sent to random people. I've had quite a few highest ranked comments since Christmas that have not shown up outside of timestamps. Most of my comments have been sent to people when I'm %100 I sent them to the right people.
U people take this comment thing wway to seriosly.
That TreoCentral poster said his correspondence with Sprint said it was coming in =MAY=.
I wonder if the Sprint guy confused Pre with Pro?
And, if so, do we now have a better idea of Pre release date?
Yea i called earlier this morning and they said it was a Glitch and it Will Be out in May of 2009
Then i got to thinkin......If they can "Glitch" a new phone onto the Site....That means they know wat the hell phones are coming out and when....So i wonder if they can "Glitch" a blackberry Bold on the Sprint Site......or the Pre.....
Cuz if its not out until MAY, then wat are they doin wit all the Specs 5 months ahead of time and Whats stopping them from Putting it on the site with a HUGE Print next to it that says "Available MAY 09" Kinda like How T-Mobile is doing with the Blackberry 8900.
Dont bullshit your customers, give them a heads up on releases not a Week before its out. Theres nuthin worse than buying a Phone one month and then its replacement comes out a few months later and you had no clue. What kind of Business Model is that??
Now im holding off on that 8830 and 8330 cuz theyre discounting them $300. Must mean sumthin....
Any idea who manufactures this "Glitch"? what its specs are? will it be an iPhone killer?
Seriously the US is really badly served by its mobile carriers. Ok the service is cheap but you're getting what you pay for.
If OS were easily shoe-horned onto older devices there's no incentive to upgrade .. eg Symbian 9.3 FP2 is really nice and would be a great upgrade for most of the current N series devices .. will Nokia upgrade them all .. heck no .. they need to sell the new models.
One can hold out hope for Android I suppose.
Yeah, that's right - it was you, not the TreoCentral guy, who said "May". That sounds more like the Pre intro date and the Sprint guy just got confused.
'Course, maybe now we have a better idea of Pre intro date!
Jeez, I wonder how much my "friend" could get selling "his" Sprint Treo Pro on ebay. Think it would hit a grand?
BTW, since nobody else has mentioned this I'll break it now - The browser has full Flash support! It passed the all-important zombo.com test!
You can do anything at Zombo.com, anything at all!
Palm - Imaginary products and stolen ideas...
What's that noise? Oh, it's just the screeching sound of a better product!
Sure dcoaster, A true iPhone Killer right;)
A better product that doesn't have the appeal of the young generation of suckers who settle for less.
Less is more! Don't you know that by now dcoaste:)
I wonder if it was pulled because it didn't blend.
The iphone and the iphone 3G blend.
I just got a dell advertisment in the mail that had a palm treo pro with a car adapter listed for $(USD) 549.99... SKU# A2287655
Call Dell @ 1-(800)-219-7138
This is very interesting. It also says "Unlocked", is that why? Maybe only sprint stoped it's displaying of units?
Oh you an also go to
www.dell.com/jan
So let me get this straight. The Touch Pro went through testing? If they're testing the Treo Pro with the same "testing standards" as the stock Touch Pro ROM, I'd say release the damned thing already.
The Palm Treo Pro was available yesterday at my local Best Buy, in Greensboro, NC. I had the phone in my hands.
Official launch date is 1-25-09.
I was at the sprint store in Novi, MI and they had the Treo Pros there. Though they were not selling them yet.
Seemed like a nice phone, great touch screen but only had Win OS, no plam os in sight.
They are waiting to reduce 800w stock. It has been selling very badly.