Palm Pre Touch Screen Phone: An actual iPhone Killer?
By Alexis • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: UncategorizedThe Palm Pre is the latest touch screen smartphone launched by Palm. It’s sleek, speedy and stylish enough to match your prestige and glamour. Basically, the Palm Pre is a Web-centric smartphone that offers stupendous features and capabilities. At first glance you will be impressed by its 3.1 inch curvy touchscreen that renders jaw dropping precision graphics at a resolution of 320×480 pixels. Moreover, this phone delivers an unprecedented user interaction and navigation.
The Palm Pre is targeted towards professionals and mobile computing enthusiasts. It beautifully sports all the necessary functions and applications. Ergonomically, the Palm Pre impeccably designed and feels good in the hand. Not only outer aesthetics are cool but the internal UI (user interface) too is mesmerising. It is entirely different and improved upon anything Palm did previously with models like the Palm Treo 680. With multi-touch capabilities incorporated the Palm Pre offers easy navigation and web browsing. It is also blessed with a unique touch operating system called webOS and a special gesture area that makes the user interaction more engaging and enjoyable by mapping simple finger gestures to phone’s operations. For instance, you can go back to a previous menu by simply sliding the finger to the left.
Palm Pre is purely a smartphone for the corporate users. It follows a holistic algorithm and automatically integrates all the necessary data residing at different locations (on the phone, at your work place and on the web) at one place. So it’s an ideal device to automate the data management. The processing core of Palm Pre is incited by via TI OMAP 3430 processor. It supports all the standard connectivity protocols including USB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and is fully compatible with all popular media (audio/video) formats.
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