via MobilityToday

Sure, news of this thing leaked like a Greek fishing boat the moment Palm thought it up but now it’s offical. Behold: the Palm Treo Pro, a WinMo 6.1 cellphone with some nice features including enhanced WiFi discover, G.P.S., and a sexy touchscreen. Is it earth-shattering? No, but as we just learned Palm is going to create a series of great phones instead of one massive iPhone killer. Read on for the full release and look for some hot news this afternoon when we get our hands-on.

Treo Pro will be available in September in Europe(2) through Vodafone (from free to EUR 399 with contract) and O2 (pricing is available from O2 direct sales and online business stores), and in Australia through Telstra (from free with contract). It will be available in the United States in the fall through the Palm online store as well as select Internet, retail and enterprise resellers for a suggested retail price of $549. The U.S. version is unlocked and unsubsidized, giving end users the flexibility to simply insert their existing active SIM card and immediately start using their Treo Pro without a new contract.

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Would you call the Palm brand name “dead,” or merely “sleeping?”

There’s a drive-by profile of Palm in today’s New York Times, one that looks at how former Apple hardware design guru Jon Rubenstein has tried to resurrect the Palm we used to know. That is, one not “dead” or “sleeping,” but one beating everyone up and stealing lunch money just for phone—virile!

We gain a few insights into what Palm has been up to, and where it plans to go.

• Palm’s not trying to kill the iPhone, but is trying to build a “killer” Palm product

• Palm isn’t going to be saved by brilliant management, but rather employee-generated, terrific ideas

• Palm also won’t be saved by one hit product (like the Pro), but will need a string of successes to bring it to the dance again

If you have any interest in Palm, you’d do well to read the whole profile. It’s a nice distraction from the wall-to-wall “Who will Obama pick?” coverage.

So on the 21st, Palm is going to make the Treo Pro official but the leaks keep flowing. Next up was the official press photos, but all we managed to grab was a screenshot before those were pulled. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything new announced. Some Palm fanboys are still holding out for HSDPA but that doesn’t look good.

Palm has unveiled a new moble device, the Treo Pro smartphone. The new phone features a one-touch Wi-Fi button, GPS, Windows Mobile 6.1 and a high-resolution flush color touch screen. Available video includes the Treo Pro smartphone and Palm headquarters.

It’s just a bit sad that the Palm’s levies were breached and out poored the info so quickly. Let’s try to keep it classy in the future Palm.

Update: We managed to grab one of the pics. Screenshot after the jump.

Update 2: Video added after the break.

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Yeah, we’re getting Palm overloaded too, but there might be some Palm fanboys that crave this info. Maybe. 

Updated spec list - italicized means new info

• 400Mhz CPU
• 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM
• 320×320 screen
• GPS
• Full Tri-band 3G, Quad-band GSM
• 2 Megapixel camera
• microUSB connector
• 3.5mm Earphone connector
• 1500mah battery 
• Comm Manager’s Airport Mode
• MicroSD up to 32GB
• HTC Task Manager
• Qualcomm 7201 chipset
• Battery size and comparison to the Palm 650
• Headphones included

New pics, including images of the software, after the jump.

TreoCentral via Engagdet & Treo9 via WMExperts

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More Palm Pro pics found in a Chinese Palm forum and WMExperts provides us with more tech specs.

• 400Mhz CPU , but snappy response
• 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM! (Other reports show “In use: 43.96mb, Free 57.72mb)
• 320*320 screen
• GPS
• Full Tri-band 3G, Quad-band GSM
• 2 Megapixel camera
• microUSB connector!
• 3.5mm Earphone connector
• 1500mah battery (this is looking like it might actually be true?)

Lots more after the jump.
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Every once in a while, someone at a handset company uploads somethings that just aren’t meant to be seen by the public yet. Sometimes, if we get reaaaaally lucky, someone else stumbles across these before they get taken down.

Such is the case with the Treo Pro, previously seen in a leaked live image as the Treo 850. Forum member “Scottymomo” from WMExperts [Via MobilityToday] spotted this presentation on Palm’s own training site, and snapped screenshots just before it got taken down.

For one more shot and the specs known so far, head on over to Mobilecrunch >>