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Mar. 5, 2009

The Palm Treo Pro smartphone will soon be available to Sprint customers, the company has said.

But the announcement has been dimmed by a bad preliminary results announcement for the fiscal third-quarter of 2009 and some hype surrounding the new Palm Pre.

Overall, Palm is expecting lower revenues for the quarter as a result of the Treo delay, significantly reduced demand for Palm’s maturing legacy smartphone products, and the current weak economic climate.

But some wireless analysts from GC Research think that Palm’s new Web-OS, which will premier on the Pre, is all that matters.

The Pre is getting favorable reviews from almost everyone except for Apple, which in February engaged in a war of words over ownership of technologies used in the iPhone and other touch-screen devices.

“Our research indicates the platform is better designed – as far as developers are concerned – than Windows, Symbian/Series 60 or even RIM's BlackBerry."

"We believe that the platform will provide much higher performance than generally believed, and that mobile applications developers will find it extremely easy to develop or translate their code to Web-OS."

"We also believe that, based on technical considerations that the webOS developer community will grow quickly, turning Palm into a major contender in the smartphone space.”

However, Sprint still isn't elaborating on its planned release of the Pre in the first half of this year.

Palm is expected to report its fiscal third-quarter results in two weeks.

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Source: Sprint.