As some of you will probably have learnt Palm just got back in the game! Seriously. For those of you who have missed this news or skipped the news regarding Palm from our CES 2009 roundup, this you don’t want to miss. The latest Palm Pre is a svelte new smartphone that runs Palm’s all-new, touch based webOS mobile platform. The Pre boasts a 3.1-inch touch screen with a gesture area below, a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 8GB of internal storage, on board is WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash. The Pre, initially will be available only from Sprint. The Palm phone will be sold alongside the Touchstone, an inductive charging dock that lets you charge up wirelessly just by laying the Pre on top of it, which leaves me absolutely speechless. It’s quite clear that Palm is up for a challenge, is it comparable to iPhone or RIM BlackBerry Storm or Google Android G1 or even Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, I think definitely and no doubt we will be hearing about Palm Pre for the rest of this year.
Here’s a quick hands on gallery [via Engadget, Gizmodo] featuring the Palm Pre in greater detail…
Is it a good comparison? I think it makes sense to put these two together, both of them are the latest full touch screen phones to come out into the market. Though I would say that both phone manufacturers tend to produce phones with styles that target different users. Nevertheless this quick hands on video shows you some of the ups and downs of the two newest touch screen phones to hit the market, if that’s what you are looking for by any chance!
It seems the economic downturn doesn’t affect geeks and gamers like you and me, at least from NVidia’s perspective. Take a look at this 1.5 GB monsterous QuadroFX 4800 Workstation Graphics Card which NVidia has just recently unveiled, complete with a GT200 graphics processor and a sticker price of $1,999. The board features a 602MHz GPU clock speed, 192 stream processors, an 800MHz GDDR3 clock speed, 384-bit memory controller and a PCI Express 2.0 x16 connector. Hit the link to HotHardware below and find out how the 4800 compares with its devilish brother: 5800, which costs as much as $3,499!
You’ve already seen the unboxing gallery of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone we featured, now here’s a demo video we’ve found just recently uploaded. It’s about 5 minutes long, but it really shows you why the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a strong and possible contender against the iPhone…
I’m not going to dwell on the fact that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone is Nokia’s first official entry into the world of touchscreen mobiles, it is pretty exciting and it’s specs does pose a possible threat to the iPhone, especially when it’s got a better camera! We recommend you check out the full specs on the Nokia 5800 here.
Unfortunately, these unboxing pics are not from us, they are from the folks over at Stuff.tv, nonetheless it does illustrate a comparsion to the iPhone 3G in one of its pictures if that’s what you are interested in, check out the full gallery below…
