Jan 08

Palm Pre first hands-on with live updates!

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This is it! Our first go-round with Palm’s newest entry to the smartphone field — the pre. Watch this page for updates on our first impressions, a live stream of photos after the break, and observations on the company’s rebirth into the marketplace.

1:19PM – First photos are up. They’re running us through a demo of the phone, so we haven’t gotten to touch it just yet — the tension is killing!

1:38PM – They let us play with it a bit — while they held the other end, of course. The keyboard is Centro-esque, with shallow presses and cramped spacing. The actual keys are rubbery and easy enough to find with the fingernails of our massive man hands, other folks might have better luck using the pads of their fingers. The touchscreen isn’t quite as responsive as the iPhone or G1 — or it could be the OS, there seems to be a tiny lag between a tap and an action — but it’s still pretty great. We spent mere seconds toying with the OS, but all the actions seem ultra-intuitive.

Update: You can watch some video after the break!

Gallery: Palm Pre hands-on: hardware

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Jan 08

Palm stock on a rocket to recovery

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If you bought stock this morning it’s currently up 35%. Daaaamn.

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Jan 08

Palm’s Pre gets its own spot on Sprint’s website

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Merely minutes after Palm shook up the mobile realm with the introduction of the Pre, Sprint — its exclusive launch partner — has already hosted up a dedicated website for what will unquestionably be its flagship device. Currently, all the site offers is a way to get informed of when it’ll be out, but that’s all you really need at the moment, now isn’t it?

[Thanks, MTW]

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Jan 08

The Palm Pre

Posted in: breaking news, BreakingNews, palm, palm pre, PalmPre, pre, Today's Chili

The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its long(est) awaited all-new handset, the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen handset has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, with a rollerball down below and touch sensitivity all down the face — the lower part is for “gestures.” A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the phone in a portrait orientation, and you can flip the phone on its side for accelerometer-sensed widescreen browsing. The phone is running Palm’s all-new webOS platform, with TI’s new OMAP CPU under the hood — which Palm claims provides laptop-style power, and which juices the phones smooth transitions, scrolling and “deck of cards” app-switching. Other internal specs include EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP and 8GB of built-in flash storage. There’s a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, mass storage-friendly microUSB plug and a good ol’ 3.5mm headphone jack, but most exciting is the wireless charger — a first for a mainstream phone. More shots are after the break, including a fancy FCC diagram depicting a removable battery. The phone is exclusive at launch for Sprint in the first half of 2009, no word on price just yet.

You can check out our other Pre coverage below:

Live from Palm’s CES press conference
Palm Pre’s wireless charger, the Touchstone
Palm’s Pre gets its own spot on Sprint’s website
Palm Pre website now live with official images, video
Palm pre first hands-on with live updates!
Palm stock on a rocket to recovery
There will be a GSM-friendly 3G Palm Pre
Palm Pre in-depth impressions, video, and huge hands-on gallery

Galleries

Live from Palm’s CES press conference

Palm Pre official shots

Palm Pre hands-on: hardware

Palm pre first hands-on with live updates, part 2!
More Palm Pre hands-on shots

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Jan 08

Palm Pre’s wireless charger, the Touchstone

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Palm just announced its wireless charger for the new Palm Pre, dubbed the Touchstone. No word on whether this is optional or standard, or if it’s optional how much it’ll go for, but it’s certainly great to see a mainstream device get something like this first party.

Update: Palm’s website is saying this will be sold separately.

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