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Palm Goes All In With The Pre

by Jason Wilk on January 8, 2009

  • Introducing the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen Blackberry killer (because we know it won’t touch the iPhone), has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display.
  • As we have said before, it has a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out from underneath the phone. Contains an accelerometer for landscape viewing. The phone is running Palm’s all new Nova platform, and also includes Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3 megapixel camera, all with laptop style power.
  • No one has gotten a hands on demo yet, so stay tuned for the important stuff like mail, screen responsiveness, app store, etc. There’s already one downside to the phone, it is exclusively with Sprint for the first half of 2009 with no price tag yet. Just lost one potential customer. Thanks to Engadget for the photo.
  • Is there something oddly familiar about that dial screen and the bottom Nav bar?

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Palm’s Banking On Standardization With Nova. Not Going To Happen

by Jason Wilk on January 4, 2009

  • Palm is expecting to launch back into stardom with the launch of their latest phone this week at the CES conference in Las Vegas. The new phone, which many claim to be competitive with the iPhone (yawn, heard that before), is running Palm’s brand new Nova operating system. This will be Palm’s big push into a standardized platform which will allow third-party developers to submit applications. The above photo is a mock-up from CrunchGear, and PalmDoc based on the widespread rumor that the phone will have a slide-down QWERTY keyboard.

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  • CEO, Ed Colligan, who’s watched Palm’s stock price fall off Mt.Everest this year, is putting all his chips in on this new operating system. He says they have been working incredibly hard on the new technology and it is already getting “amazing” reviews from those who have been able to play around with it. Personally, I feel that standardization is not going to be the kicker to push any of the phone manufacturers over the top. The golden days of the OEM’s were when the decks were fully controlled by them and the carriers (i.e $$$).
  • Look out for the official Palm announcement this Thursday. We’ll see if it can’t give that stock price a little nudge.

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