The Palm Pre is currently offered in the US by SPrint Nextel and through Bell Mobility in Canada. This multimedia smartphone offers some of the newest phone features on the market today. This is the first phone to utilize the linux based webOS as its operating system which now moves Palm away from its proprietary Palm OS platform.
This cool phone has a multimedia touchscreen and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. This phone functions as a camera phone, a portable media player, a GPS navigator, and a savvy Internet client with email, messaging, web browsing and Wi-Fi connectivity.
This Pre has a 3.1 inch touchscreen with a 320×480 HVGA liquid crystal display. The screen also automatically sets itself to portrait or landscape depending on how you hold the phone. This phone will definitely give Apple a good competitor to its iPhone, especially when compared to the connectivity of Sprint versus the AT&T network.
The long and short of it is this: the Palm Pre and webOS are the first real challengers to the iPhone’s innovative approach to a mobile UI and data management. Oh, and yes, it has copy and paste functions (triggered by holding down your thumb on the gesture area and selecting your text with another finger).
Good news for anyone waiting for the Palm Pre’s Mojo SDK, well it seems to have leaked on the internet. "Palm’s Mojo devkit has leaked to the web ahead of schedule—they had announced it would arrive in late summer.
Sprint Picks on iPhone with Palm Pre
Sprint released the new Palm Pre smartphone into the wild about three weeks ago, putting a lot of hope in the handset’s performance on the market, and now it has begun to market its device a little more aggressively than before.
How is the wifi quality . Can it be compared to the 3G Technology.
The Palm Pre is a webOS-powered handset has many features expected in a high-end gadget including Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, and multimedia playback. Sprint’s 3G network is in concert with the Palm Pre in terms of their aplication. However, Apple has punched Palm in the gutt by killing the Pre’s ability to sync with iTunes for managing multimedia content. This will cost some market share in the short run until Palm figures out how to get around this problem.
In the long run, however, this will open things up for everyone as more venues for a full access fast web phone become available.
I appologize.. I am unable to review this gps device as it was bought as a present for my sister… but I would purchase the 265w next time, as its the one I should have purchased because of the lifetime real time traffic, as i exactly know how to work on it… other than that, Ive heard it works well.
I’ve had my Pre considering that shortly right after launch and am glad to discover (via this forum) that I can now set a ring tone on incoming text messages and can lookup by means of e-mails and this kind of. Now is there any hope for an upcoming release in which I can search my calendar? Would make my employment a lot less difficult, discovering dates of last appointments. No other complaints, except that yesterday I used to be in and out of Sprint program (not unusual). I feel I used to be roaming, and looked at my calendar. Almost everything inside the calendar was a single hour earlier than what I had input. The clock was 1 hour early as well. I was scared to death–then, once we got back into Sprint assistance once more, almost everything was normalized. Has this happened to everyone else?? Hunting forward to answers, but please bear in mind, I’m no techie and speak English instead of technospeak.