Palm this week took the wraps off a new (and unlocked) Windows Mobile 3G smart phone, aimed directly at enterprise users.

The Palm Treo Pro incorporates a battery of features designed to appeal to IT managers who are opting for Windows Mobile as their mobile platform and who want more control over corporate hand-helds. But the sleek design, bezel-less high-resolution display, and “shortcuts” to streamline the user interface, are all intended to appeal to end users.

The new phone will be offered in both unlocked and, with some carriers including Vodafone, in locked versions.

The Treo Pro features a crisp 320 x 320 pixel display, compared to a 240 x 240 in the Treo 800w device. The screen is flush with the thin housing and below that is a streamlined navigation area (Palm eliminated two hard buttons, making them on-screen soft buttons instead). Other features include a full QWERTY keyboard, and calendar and email can be accessed by pressing dedicated buttons for each.

Windows Mobile 6.1 includes not only Microsoft DirectPush Technology, which creates a direct link with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or 2007, but also hooks to Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manage (MDM), a recently released server application to give enterprise IT greater management and configuration control over the devices.

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