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While the rest of the wireless world scurries about, trying to one-up the competition’s network reliability claims with all manner of advertisements, Telstra’s concentrating on recognizing high-performing handsets on their own network. Telstra’s “Blue Tick” award is given to handsets on its network that have proven themselves as signal strength monsters. When most of the country you’re serving is comprised of harsh, desolate bad-lands, it makes sense to give praise to handsets that can lock on to weak wireless signals better than the average cellphone.
The latest handset to win Telstra’s “Blue Tick” nod of approval is the Palm Treo Pro. Apparently, the Windows Mobile-powered smartphone isn’t just good for tapping out emails and editing documents, it’s good for making calls in the Australian outback too! The Telstra Palm Treo Pro has become the “first smartphone on the Next G™ network to be accredited with Telstra’s Blue Tick of approval showing that it is recommended for handheld use in metro, rural and regional areas.”
The Palm Treo Pro is slated to go on sale for free on qualifying service contracts come mid-September. Rural Telstra customer and business users willprobably want to at least consider the Palm Treo Pro as their cellular-signal hunting handset of choice.
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
