Infoworld gives a favorable review to the relatively new Palm Treo Pro. Palm, which used to be the favored smartphone of enterprises, has faded and now in danger of being marginalized by RIM for business users. The low-priced Centro sold very well with consumers but the company will need to do more than produce decent Windows Mobile phones in order to compete longer term.
That’s because there are a plethora of new Windows Mobile devices on the market, including several by HTC. Speaking of which, HP has rolled out two new Windows Mobile iPaq devices — the data manager and voice messenger. Gizmodo has an overview and screenshots. The data manager is a touch-screen device that looks very much like the HTC Touch Pro (also Windows Mobile).
The HP devices, so far only available in Europe, are targeted to “prosumers” (awful term).
Until Windows 7 comes out (and improves upon 6.1), touch-screen phones like the HP iPaq data messenger (pictured above) are simply iPhone clones, however elegant the hardware.