The Palm Pre Is Making Waves
When you think about mobile phones of yesteryear, perhaps you will recall basic units that can only send messages or make calls. But with the ever growing needs of tech consumers today, mobile phones needed to evolve into smart phones, those which are faster, more powerful, and laden with tons of added features. When smart phones and PDAs are under consideration, the first name that comes to mind is Palm, Inc.
Palm was founded by Jeff Hawkins as Palm Computing, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California in 1992. The initial product release of this small company was a consumer personal digital assistant (PDA) called the Zoomer. Later on, various models emerged, and the company was acquired by larger manufacturers. At the present, Palm, Inc. has made a reputation for coming up with the coolest and smartest gadgets to support anyone’s mobile needs. As of 2009, Palm is proud to debut its newest brainchild, the Palm Pre, among the newest releases guaranteed to give the iPhone a run for its money.
Here are some specs for the Palm Pre: It has a slider form factor, wherein the 3.1 inch touch screen reveals a full QWERTY keypad. The Palm Pre weighs in at a mere 4.6 ounces, and is a little more than half an inch thick. Within this small package are tons of connectivity options, including Bluetooth, USB, WiFi, and CDMA. Palmweb OS is the operating system for this smart phone, whose apps are Linux based. The 3 mega pixel digital camera with LED flash allows for tons of photos to store in its large 8 GB hard drive.
With the help of Palm Synergy, the Palm Pre makes organizing schedules simple and convenient. You can merge together your Google, Facebook, and even your PDA calendars for easy access. For techies who like multitasking on their PDA phones, they can surely open up several apps or windows on the Palm Pre, and navigate through them with ease. With its universal search option, finding what you need from Wikipedia, Google, your phone book, or your hard drive is a breeze, too. Other perks with the Palm Pre include GPS and a multimedia player which can support several formats for audio and video.
When will the tech fanatics finally get a taste of the Palm Pre? In the United States, Sprint Nextel has gained the exclusive rights to distribute this powerful and innovative smart phone. By June of 2009, American mobile phone fans will be able to purchase their own Palm Pre units. In addition to the acclaim it has been gathering among fans and critics, the Pre actually won several awards at the recent Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas in January 2009.
What about the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe? Fortunately for those in the UK, Vodafone has been undergoing negotiations with Palm regarding the exclusive distribution of the smart phone for Brits and for Spain and Germany as well. Softpedia reports that Vodafone may soon be the only network in the UK to provide subscribers with the Palm Pre within the first three months of its release.
