Hey folks, I know from your comments sent in to us that you’re all quite excited about the new and upcoming latest Palm Pre. Just this morning we learnt that there were two rather unnoticed features of the Palm Pre just recently discovered, now we’ve got here yet another hands on video for you via TreoCentral. What I like the most about the Palm Pre is its so simple to use and also just look at that stunning HVGA touchscreen display, you’ll see what I mean in the video below.
We’ve just learnt through MobileCrunch about two minor features of the Palm Pre which turns out not many realised. As you will see in the video below, the Palm Pre has a slide to unlock feature very similar to that of the iPhone, it is optimised for one-handed, ambidextrous unlocking. All that is needed is a simple drag motion of the unlock object out of the circle and the Palm Pre will wake up. It’s also got a camera shutter that can be triggered by pressing on the spacebar which is also quite neat.
Treocentral poster Vyruz Reaper claims to have been given insider info on the launch date for the Palm Pre. His highly speculated source apparently passed on to him / her that the Palm Pre would launch as early as February 15. Check out his discussion post over at TreoCentral and see what you think.
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…
