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Palm Pre
June 29th, 2009
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.
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