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Palm Pre
Tech Blog —
... display, 3.0-megapixel camera, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, 8GB of internal memory, and a new operating system. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
The Palm Pre is a lot smaller than I initially thought it would be. A good size comparison would be an iPod classic with a big hard drive. In terms of thickness, it's definitely not as thin as the iPhone, or even the bold, but it's an acceptable size considering it's a slider.
[via Gizmodo]
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Palm Pre, Plus Roger and Me
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed —
... new o/s -- seems to be rocking the house at CES. Early reviews are highly positive, it looks visually impressive, and the stock is up big post-announcement. Congrats to the Palm crew. This means I owe Roger McNamee at Elevation Partners lunch. We bet on the reception that the new Palm o/s would receive, and I took the under -- wrongly, as it turns out. More: Palm Debuts New Touch-Screen Phone (WSJ) Palm Pre Preview: Simply Amazing (Gizmodo)
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CES Day One: Our Top 10 [Ces 2009]
Gizmodo —
... Palm Pre : Number one with a bullet. If we told you three months ago that Palm would own CES, would you have believed us? But this phone is for real, and from the looks of it right now, it very well could be the morale lift Palm so badly needed. ...
Palm's Comeback Starts With Pre, WebOS
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... for a modern mobile user. Palm's webOS has been built from the ground up with constant mobile Internet connectivity in mind. Palm's OS pulls information from various Web services and aggregates it into a single, finger-friendly interface. For example, it will be able to aggregate contact information from Microsoft's Outlook, Web-based e-mail, and social networking site into a single contact list. The Outlook integration could make this a useful device for mobile professionals, and hands-on reports said it handles multi-tasking well. ...
14 Questions About Palm’s Amazing Pre
Technologizer —
Palm Pre Smartphone What a difference a demo makes. For the past few years, declaring Palm to be in decline, irrelevant, or just plain dead has been a national pastime among tech pundits. The unveiling of the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone and its WebOS operating system yesterday here at CES changes all that. It will still be a challenge for Palm to restore itself to a leadership role in the smartphone industry it created. But its demo yesterday was so impressive on so many fronts that I can’t imagine any rational observer insisting that Palm is Still Dead until the Pre has a ...
Palm's Pre Getting Good Reviews, So Far
Today @ PC World —
... " of the Pre's interface, which it says "outclasses most of its competition on a number of levels, and actually may be quite a bit more revolutionary than the iPhone." No small praise there. Gizmodo called the Pre " simply amazing " and said the device may be "the most important handset to be announced in two years." The software, screen quality, and camera earned the strongest praise, but the hardware design could be better, wrote reviewer Adrian Covert. MobileDevicesToday also ...
Around the Web 1.9.09: Silliest CES gadget, cheers for Palm Pre, TV on phones
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- The Palm Pre could be "the most important handset to be announced in two years." Perhaps there’s hope for Palm yet. Gizmodo ...
Palm Pre: Looking Good
dailywireless.org —
... Gizmodo called the Pre “simply amazing” and said the device may be “the most important handset to be announced in two years.” The software, screen quality, and camera earned the strongest praise, but the hardware design could be better, wrote reviewer Adrian Covert. ...
Palm Pre Roundup: $399 Price? Most Love It, Om Is Unimpressed
mocoNews —
... —Gizmodo: To avoid any doubt Gizmodo titled its preview article Simply Amazing. Every aspect gets a good review except the overall design, which is a personal preference thing. And this line at the bottom: "It transcends what a mobile device should feel like." There are also some ...
iPhones, Personal Computers and Netbooks Oh My
MacEdition —
... , hardware is on the way. And now Palm comes out swinging, hell-bent on doing to the iPhone what it did to the Newton. Palm has been a sleepwalking zombie for the past seven years, and now, the sleeper has woken! Palm’s back, and back in a big, bad way… app store and all. (Despite the unfortunate name, which already has slash-fiction afficionados snickering mercilessly) Oh, and this is Palm, so expect full disclosure of its API and hardware to any and all interested developers, in stark contrast to the Apple Way. ...
Top 10 CES and Macworld Announcements [Lifehacker Top 10]
Lifehacker —
... here's hoping that another firm with a killer app will use the empty slot next year to launch something great. 8. Palm is back in the game. [image] Until this week, discussion about web-enabled smartphones was mostly talking about the iPhone, the Others, and, okay, Google's Android, once it's on a few more phones. Then Palm initially way late to the game, and dwindling in market share launches a sleek, small, fully-loaded smartphone that even our seen-it-all siblings at Gizmodo were stunned by . Even if you're not planning to throw down the (reported) $399 for Palm's Pre, ...
Palm's Pre wins the critics
MacBytes.com —
... " of the Pre's interface, which it says "outclasses most of its competition on a number of levels, and actually may be quite a bit more revolutionary than the iPhone." No small praise there. Gizmodo called the Pre " simply amazing " and said the device may be "the most important handset to be announced in two years." The software, screen quality, and camera earned the strongest praise, but the hardware design could be better, wrote reviewer Adrian Covert. MobileDevicesToday also ...
Next Palm Pre WebOS Phone Will Be Cheap, Maybe Centro 2 [Rumor]
Gizmodo —
Palm Infocenter has "heard from a seemingly reliable firsthand source" that Palm's working on the Centro 2, which'll run the Pre's slobber-inducing WebOS and hit Sprint this fall. It goes along with what Sascha at PCMag (who would only print reliable tips) has heard: Not only will the WebOS be on lotsa Palm devices in as many form factors as colors of the rainbow, but the next WebOS may be "a lower-cost, candybar-style phone without a QWERTY keyboard." So even if the next WebOS phone from Palm isn't called the Centro 2, between the two ...
Roundup: The Best of CES/Macworld 2009, All In One Place [Roundup]
Gizmodo —
... If we told you three months ago that Palm would own CES, would you have believed us? Find out how Palm did it in our full hands-on. ...
Little things about Palm’s “new-ness” that you (may) have missed
PalmAddicts —
... And Adrian Covert from Gizmodo found a neat feature when he handled Palm Prē; a black surface under the screen which he calls it as the Gesture Bar, streamlines some of the navigation so you can use the phone with one hand, especially when trying to reach the upper part of the screen. If you're working in a specific app, you can drag your finger up from the Gesture Bar to the screen, hold it for a second, and the wave dock will appear, making it easy to quick launch another app. ...
Pre and Web OS: Longtime Palm Developers Sound Off
Digital Daily —
... and the Web OS on which it runs–most of it overwhelmingly positive, if not euphoric. This may be “the most important handset to be announced in two years,” enthuses Gizmodo. “Palm did what Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft couldn’t,” ...
The Next Gadget Gods [Predictions]
Gizmodo —
... Colligan's generally stormy course at Palm's helm finally reached some smooth waters: He just unveiled Pre, a fresh, attractive take on the smartphone, bolstered by healthy chunks of DNA from Apple and other new smartphone platforms via the talent they aggressively poached. He's proven he has what it takes to make big aggressive changes with this handset, and get the right talent in place, just like Steve Jobs would. And Colligan isn't afraid to make ...
Palm Tre Pro Priced And Available On Sprint: $250 [Treo Pro]
Gizmodo —
You'd be a bit batty to grab a Palm piece now that's not the Pre, but if you simply cannot wait and you're a Sprint WinMo masochist, it's available for $250 with two-year deal. Adrian, our resident Palm disciple, found the Treo Pro a very capable phone, as far as Windows Mobile handsets go. And it was Palm's best-designed phone, until the little pebble of Pre-ness was dropped on us at CES. Now it's a lot easier to find out if he was right with Sprint's WCDMA Pro, as before now it had not been subsidized by any carrier. [Sprint ...
Palm Treo Pro Priced And Available On Sprint: $250 [Treo Pro]
Gizmodo —
You'd be a bit batty to grab a Palm piece now that's not the Pre, but if you simply cannot wait and you're a Sprint WinMo masochist, it's available for $250 with two-year deal. Adrian, our resident Palm disciple, found the Treo Pro a very capable phone, as far as Windows Mobile handsets go. And it was Palm's best-designed phone, until the little pebble of Pre-ness was dropped on us at CES. Now it's a lot easier to find out if he was right with Sprint's WCDMA Pro, as before now it had not been subsidized by any carrier. [Sprint ...
Definitive Palm Pre Details and FAQ [Precyclopedia]
Gizmodo —
... Palm's Pre smartphone is unusual in that it slides vertically to reveal the QWERTY keyboard. It uses the same curved sliding action found on phones like the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. The vertical keyboard was used partially to stand out from other phones, and partially to adhere to the philosophy of easy one-handed use. The phone has a multitouch screen and, when the keyboard is hidden, just three physical controls: A top button, a side volume rocker, and the Blackberry-esque trackball with clickable OK button. It also has a 3.5mm headphone jack, 3MP camera on the back (w/LED ...
Palm Pre: The Definitive FAQ [Precyclopedia]
Gizmodo —
... Palm's Pre smartphone is unusual in that it slides vertically to reveal the QWERTY keyboard. It uses the same curved sliding action found on phones like the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. The vertical keyboard was used partially to stand out from other phones, and partially to adhere to the philosophy of easy one-handed use. The phone has a multitouch screen and, when the keyboard is hidden, just three physical controls: A top button, a side volume rocker, and the Blackberry-esque trackball with clickable OK button. It also has a 3.5mm headphone jack, 3MP camera on the back (w/LED ...
Sprint's Palm Treo Pro Available for Pre-Order at Best Buy for $699 Contract-Free [Palm]
Gizmodo —
... The price is steep, but about normal for a contract-free phone. Best Buy will ship the (currently backordered) Palm Treo out in one to two weeks. Methinks that if you've already waited long enough for the Palm Treo Pro to come out, you might as well wait for the Pre lest you get stuck with the-soon-to-be antiquated Windows Mobile 6.1 software. [ ...
Palm Pre: The Definitive Guide and FAQ [Palm Pre]
Gizmodo —
... Palm's Pre smartphone is unusual in that it slides vertically to reveal the QWERTY keyboard. It uses the same curved sliding action found on phones like the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. The vertical keyboard was used partially to stand out from other phones, and partially to adhere to the philosophy of easy one-handed use. The phone has a multitouch screen and, when the keyboard is hidden, just three physical controls: A top button, a side volume rocker, clickable button at the bottom. It also has a 3.5mm headphone jack, 3MP camera on the back (w/LED flash) all in a 4.8-ounce ...
