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Can the Pre Compete with the iPhone?
Monday, January 12th, 2009 at 11:40 AM - by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Palm made a splash at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas when it unveiled the Pre, a touchscreen smartphone that runs the company's new webOS. According to Larry Magid of The Mercury News, who was able to take it for a test drive, the Pre is an impressive device that "could very well take a bite out of Apple's iPhone sales." Palm, which has seen its standing decline in recent years, is betting a lot on the new smartphone.
While no price point has been announced for the Pre, which is due sometime before June 30, it comes with the same 8GB of storage found in Apple's US$199 iPhone. Also like the iPhone, it offers a multi-touch interface, although the Pre allows users to run multiple applications simultaneously and switch between them by flicking the screen to the left or right. The iPhone doesn't have that functionality, nor does it have a pullout physical keyboard and a removable battery, both of which are also found on the Pre.
The Pre can also sync contact and calendar information wirelessly; the iPhone must be plugged into a computer to do that, although it will sync wirelessly with data via an Exchange or MobileMe account. It's even able to pull information together from various sources: Mr. Magid gave the example of grabbing a cell phone number from a Facebook profile and an office line from a Gmail account. Changes made anywhere also propagate everywhere else.
From the development side, Mr. Magid spoke with Pandora CTO Tom Conrad, who said his company was able to create a version of their application for the Pre in three days, versus the "three-month process" required to create the same thing for the iPhone.
1/12/09, 10:41 AM PST: Updated article with information about iPhone's wireless sync capabilities.

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