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Palm introduces the new Palm pre smartphone!
Boy Genius Report —
Pretty huge news from Palm today as the company used CES to announce a new integrated solution based on cloud computing called the Palm Web OS that built on top of CMS, HTML and XML. The company also introduced a new phone, as we all knew would be the case, dubbed the Palm pre! A black oval shaped touchscreen phone with a portrait slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The handset will have the latest TI3 OMAP CPU, EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11b/g, GPS, Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage, a 3MP camera with LED flash, MicroUSB connection, mass storage support, 3.5mm headphone jack and ...
CES: Palm Lives! Introducing the multitouch, slide-out keyboard Pre smartphone
Boing Boing Gadgets —
It's basically a more open iPhone with a new OS — how new is yet to be determined — a new interface, and a physical QWERTY slide-out keyboard. This is their Hail Mary — and at first glance it looks like it just might work.
Coverage at Gizmodo and gdgt.
Palm’s Spectacular Hail Mary: Pre Smartphone and WebOS Operating System
Technologizer —
I’m going to have lots more to say about the demo of Palm’s upcoming Pre smartphone and WebOS that just ended here at CES in Las Vegas in a bit–but for now I’ll just link you to Ryan Block’s coverage at GDGT and share some photos I took. The device looks very impressive and the OS looks exceptional, and neither is an iPhone knockoff. It’s very dangerous to get too excited about a product based on a demo–and Palm is only saying the Pre will ship in the first half of this year (on Sprint). But this is by far the most impressive Palm demo I’ve seen since I first saw the original ...
Palm comes back with a bang: shows Pre at CES
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... said Mark Donovan, a mobile phone industry analyst with comScore. "They're flying into a headwind here." This is a tough market that already includes the RIM BlackBerry, Apple's iPhone, Nokia's Symbian, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Google's Android and various others. They can't all be winners, and until now, Palm had looked like a loser. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. For informative photos and a liveblog of the Palm event, see Ryan Block at gdgt, Engadget, or Gizmodo, among others. ...
Palm Pre Gives Hope That iPhone Will Face Real Competition
Cult of Mac —
... And so it was that I was very heartened by the announcement of the Palm Pre at the Consumer Electronic Show. If you haven’t had a chance to read up on the phone, I highly recommend that you do. It’s small, relatively sleek, has a nice keyboard, and it’s got the best UI for a mobile phone that I’ve seen outside the iPhone. And for some tasks (app-switching, most notably), it’s already better. ...
Palm's Pre Getting Good Reviews, So Far
Today @ PC World —
... , and suggested that the Pre may give the struggling company a much-needed shot in the arm. Blogging live from the Palm press conference in Vegas, Ryan Block wrote "there's little doubt that Palm is back in a big way, and that this OS and device have the potential to make up for many of their missteps over the last five years." Some pundits, however, question whether Palm can pull of a successful comeback. Om Malik of GigaOM, who admits that he's ...
Palm's Pre wins the critics
MacBytes.com —
... interface: "The UI is smooth and works pretty seamlessly as they've showed. Palm's always understood how to do a good mobile UI and it's clear that they've applied everything they've learned over the years to this device and platform," wrote Michael Gartenberg. Other reviewers focused on Palm's well-publicised financial woes, and suggested that the Pre may give the struggling company a much-needed shot in the arm. Blogging live from the Palm press conference in Vegas, Ryan Block wrote "there's little doubt that Palm is back in a big way, and that this OS and device have the ...
