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Palm finishes big at CES 2009 as the Palm Pre smartphone wins CNET's Best in Show and People's Voice Award. Read on to see why.

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by Mr. Dee January 10, 2009 8:49 PM PST
It actually looks good, definitely wouldn't mind owning one. Looks like iPhone OS and Android have some serious competition in the market.
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by bdaughtry January 11, 2009 6:53 AM PST
It does look, at long last, as if truly usable smart phones may be upon us. I've still got tons of data in my Palm even though I finally gave up hope on Palm and bought the iPhone 3G. It's a great device, but there is still room for huge improvement. With Palm now in the fray, along with Andriod and Blackberry pushing the advances, I think 2009 will finally be the year of the smart phone.
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by AppleSuxLeo January 11, 2009 12:14 PM PST
I watched the demos at CES and it is just amazing how fluid and fast this device is at multi-tasking. The Synergy that brings all these web2.0 services together is just brilliant. And the gesture area is genius as it lets you change pages and focus on programs without your fingers touching the screen (think Apple notebook track pad). But most of all , it lets the device work one-handed with left or right hand. iPhone looks plodding and WAY behind the curve compared to this. It`s funny how most of us thought the iPhone was the the Jesus of phones. Well this Pre is God in the flesh ! It`s that good. And apps take days to write/port to the device compared to months. I Pre-dict this WebOS will revolutionize the smart phone market.
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by dctech08 January 11, 2009 6:37 PM PST
its gonna be junk...
by July 15, 2009 12:10 AM PDT
I may swap from my Blackbeery to this.

dctech08 - I'm guessing you're an Apple fanboy??
by AppleSuxLeo January 11, 2009 12:16 PM PST
BTW...the KERNEL of the device is LINUX !
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by DarkHawke January 11, 2009 1:28 PM PST
This does look great, don't it? Took 'em a bit, but I think this might just go the iPhone interface one better, especially since it multi-tasks, and it's not trying to emulate a desktop as with Android. I'm not a personal fan of the slide-out keyboard, though. I'm normally all for some tactile controls in this increasingly touch-oriented world, but having a "full" keyboard like this seems to add bulk to the design, though even at that, this bad boy is ULTRA sleek. I'd also like to see more memory on it. My hope for the iPhone was to have it get up to 32 GB onboard, and the Pre only has 8! I'm not so interested in any smartphone for the phone aspect; more the "smart" of having a reasonably capable computing device that'll let me web-browse at decent speeds, play my media and play some casual (or better) games. The iPhone has seemed like the closest fit so far, but I'll be paying close attention to the Pre to see what comes and when.
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by AppleSuxLeo January 12, 2009 11:59 AM PST
Apple got out Appled !
In a research note, Citi analyst Jim Suva upgraded the Palm to a ?hold? from a ?sell? based on the Pre, which ?looks like a game changer? and ?could help improve financials.?
The Pre fixes all the iPhone weaknesses like task switching , multi-tasking , the brilliance of the gesture area , the genius of being able to close an app by flicking it off the top of the screen , the genius of Synergy which updates all your contact info from many different services automatically and pulls them all into one list. The improvements over the iPhone go on and on.
The iPhone was no Jesus phone after all...not even an Apostle !
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by January 12, 2009 11:59 PM PST
I am a long long time treo user and slightly before being a treo user a palm OS user. I was beginning to lose faith in the OS I had faithfully preached had beaten Microsoft, as palm's focus and treo line headed towards win OS.

WITH THE PALM PRE MY FAITH IS NOW RESTORED.

I just recently told my friends of mine who were saying Palm inc. was a thing of the past that I wanted a phone with a iphone/itouch size touch screen, slide away keyboard and Palm OS. I told them these three features would make me happy. I would have said any one of the following features in addition to my three requirements would make it a great phone:

1. Integrated GPS
2. GBs of memory (as opposed to MBs)
3. A revamped palm/phone OS with real improvements (in the palm pre this turned out to be palm webOS with: synergry, a "super search" and multiple windows at a finger flick)
[4.] Integrated push email system - (I consider this the only thing blackberries have over treo but this is already possible with chatter on the treo but the integration without having to buy software is nice)

The PALM PRE has the large touch screen, physical keyboard and palm OS in addition to all 4 of these super additions. It even sounds like it won't break the bank which is amazing considering there is not a single thing more I could ask for in this phone! Maybe I would style it a bit differently lol, but at least the look still tops the treo 300's clear plastic flip cover ear piece that I got made fun of for in HS because it was possible to see the callers ear through the phone. [Not to mention the duck tape I used to hold the thing together when it would break]

PALM IS BACK!
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by AppleSuxLeo January 13, 2009 1:30 AM PST
Game Changer !
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by LuisRizo January 18, 2009 7:46 PM PST
Will Palm Pre synchronize with Lotus Notes (calendar and contacts)?
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by PrepaidWirelessGuy January 21, 2009 11:35 AM PST
My only concern with switching from my 755p are the applications that I have. I'm very surprised they didn't launch backwards compatibility so they could launch with a massive app store. Perhaps they're expecting developers to rewrite their apps? Also, no memory card slot? Backing up to a card is critical to me based on my past experience with data loss with Palms.

www.prepaid-wireless-guide.com
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by falonap January 25, 2009 8:47 AM PST
When will Verizon offer the phone?
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