Palm Makes a Comeback, Intros the Palm Pre

For quite some time now, Palm, Inc. has been pretty quiet and one can’t help but wonder when it is going to join the well and alive smartphone market. After all, it use to be one of the major players in the industry. Well, that question is answered, and the answer was – CES 2009. Palm, Inc. has announced it’s latest PDA phone – the Palm Pre backed by Palm’s new webOS platform. this new mobile platform was designed to flawlessly synchronize your phone, your PC, and you files on the web.  But let’s leave Palm’s webOS aside and discuss what the Palm Pre has to offer us.

Featuring a breakthrough interface and hardware design, the Palm Pre features a smooth, rounded ergonomic design and a slide-out keyboard that you can easily tucked in whenever you don’t need it. In fact the only time that you’d probably need the keyboard is when your are composing email or text messages. When the phone is closed, you can practically make phone calls, browse the web, view photos and videos. The Palm Pre also boasts of a curved slider and a gesture-controlled touch interface and sports a compact form factor small enough to fit comfortably on the palm of your hand or in your pocket.

The Palm Pre will be released through Sprint Mobile and will support various Sprint services such as SprintTV, Sprint GPS Navigation service, and streaming Radio applications with more than 150 channels.

For a quick rundown of the Palm Pre features, take a gander at the following:

• EVDO Rev. A or UMTS HSDPA connectivity
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Integrated GPS
• 3.1-inch touch screen (320×480) HVGA display
• slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, extended DOF
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP
• 8GB internal memory
• USB storage mode
• Light sensor
• Accelerometer

The Palm Pre will be available through Sprint USA anytime within the next five monts. Pricing is yet to be announced.

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