Last week Palm announced their much anticipated Palm Pre mobile phone. The Palm Pre features a slide-out QWERTY keypad to complement its 3.1-inch touchscreen display, a 3-megapixel camera with flash, EV-DO Rev. A/HSDPA connectivity, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and EDR, proximity and light sensor, accelerometer, 8GB internal memory, and runs on their latest mobile operating system, the WebOS. The Pre will be one of the first smartphones to feature wireless charging, achieved using electromagnetic induction and the use of an optional wireless charging dock, dubbed the 'Touchstone'.
While watching the Palm Pre CES launch video, I couldn't help but feel that Pre had features that iPhone could have easily had. The card view makes multi-tasking a cinch and 'Synergy' which brings all your email accounts and contact and calendar information from various sources into one place is not all that difficult for Apple to implement. Maybe in firmware v3.0 along with cut and paste.
WebOS looks very promising. Development for WebOS will be through an yet-to-be-released-to-public RAD framework called Mojo. Support for background apps and 'direct access to the device's capabilities' has been confirmed by Ars.
Slated for release in the first half of 2009 in the US, Palm Pre definitely brings innovation and life back to the struggling company. Here are some positive and not so positive reviews about the Palm Pre.
Personally, I think the CDMA only support (atleast for now) is a bummer. While waiting for Palm to bring out the GSM model, I cannot wait to get hold of the SDK and play around with it.
Update: Good article on Engadget titled 'What Apple could learn from Palm's WebOS'.
While watching the Palm Pre CES launch video, I couldn't help but feel that Pre had features that iPhone could have easily had. The card view makes multi-tasking a cinch and 'Synergy' which brings all your email accounts and contact and calendar information from various sources into one place is not all that difficult for Apple to implement. Maybe in firmware v3.0 along with cut and paste.
WebOS looks very promising. Development for WebOS will be through an yet-to-be-released-to-public RAD framework called Mojo. Support for background apps and 'direct access to the device's capabilities' has been confirmed by Ars.
Slated for release in the first half of 2009 in the US, Palm Pre definitely brings innovation and life back to the struggling company. Here are some positive and not so positive reviews about the Palm Pre.
Personally, I think the CDMA only support (atleast for now) is a bummer. While waiting for Palm to bring out the GSM model, I cannot wait to get hold of the SDK and play around with it.
Update: Good article on Engadget titled 'What Apple could learn from Palm's WebOS'.
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