posted by admin on Jun 14
The Palm Pre has now launched - and has won several awards, but it has already been having some problems - Apple don’t like it!
The concept itself is fine: a new smart phone with multi-touchscreen, full keyboard, camera, media player and GPS as you would expect these days. But it runs on Linux-based Palm webOS.
Not many people have worked with Linux - and this software has been designed from scratch just for this - so it’s like nothing you have seen before. Some people say it is easier to use than the iPhone which can’t be bad except if you are Apple of course!
The Phone Itself:
Smaller than the iPhone but with a great 3.1 inch screen it’s size is similar to a basic phone which wins it the thumbs up - the iPhone is a lot larger but of course we just love the iconic look!
The Palm Pre has it’s neat little slide-away full keyboard (rather than on on the touch-screen) which although compact is very easy to use.
The touchscreen is also adapted to be used with fingers rather than the stylus so is much more receptive to contact than it’s competitors.
It has all the standard features you would expect including landscape-to-portrait flipping, sensors to turn of the touchscreen when near your face and a 3mp camera (with LED flash!)
It has several applications in the pipelines, but more will come no doubt - and it needs them to compete with the iPhones massive amount of around 50,000!!!
Connectivity?
With high speed EV-DO Rev. A depending on location, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR it’s all in the bag really!
GPS navigation was an obvious addition here, as was the microUSB connector for data-transfer ( 8.0 gb of internal flash storage) and for charging - plus the 3.5mm headphone jack for stereo sound of course!
Also Out New:
The Nokia N97 is also out there to compete with the Palm Pre and the ‘new’ Apple iPhone 3G S!
The best features of the Nokia N97 are the 5mp camera and a 400 minute talk time - and is great for gaming!
The new iPhone 3G S is just as good as the 3G was, but has 720 minutes talk time (!) access to thousands of apps and improved voice control for number dialling and iTune selection.
The camera - although only 3 mega pixels gives you the benefit of touching the screen on the item you want to focus on in the picture so can give you some great shots - which of course can be uploaded straight to the Internet along with your videos.
What’s your choice gonna be?
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