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• Design

Palm Pre is an attractive package which is dominated by its 3.1-inch diagonal touch screen. Yes, it’s a little smaller than the trend setting Apple iPhone 3G, but its 320×480 resolution HVGA gives a superior image quality. The screen with multitouch technology to allow you to pinch and pull the images to zoom in or. Applications in the form of maps, can be easily scroll or deviated from the road to close them and e-mail can be deleted by dragging from left to right.

Unlike many touch screens, a virtual keyboard is not an option for the phone slides open giving access to a physical keyboard. In general, we are in favor of keyboards, as for typing, but it is something of a disappointment, especially because it is too cramped.

• Multimedia

Our favorite aspect of the Palm Pre webOS is and how it can integrate applications with the Web and in particular, a system called Synergy. This exclusive Palm allows the sharing of information between applications such as MS Outlook, Facebook, and Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo Mail and LinkedIn. Contact information in one application is shared so that all your data may be available in one consolidated place – although there is an option to keep it separate if you prefer. This makes for rapid and thorough independent of the application in which it can be stored. It also allows a conversation to pass the application to another seamlessly. For example, a conversation can be started using AIM, then changed to text messaging in a single continuous display.

The other feature is the top before the ability to perform multiple tasks. Open applications display as a card game that you can scroll to interact with the one you want and just the tap. It is not necessary to close an application to use another is necessary with the iPhone and many others. When you’re ready to close an application, simply flip the card and he disappeared. This is not the only multitasking smartphone – BlackBerry do well – but the user interface makes it particularly convenient.

Pre Palm has a pretty basic camera 3.0-megapixel camera includes a flash. He fnally video capture capabilities that is simple to use. You simply press the video icon located in the camera app and you’re ready to capture moments of life.

The battery life is disappointing. It also lacks a memory expansion capability. Although it has a sizeable 4 GB of onboard memory which can be eaten quickly by taking advantage of multi-tasking capabilities and it does not leave a lot of songs storage.

Palm Pre has a GPS receiver, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, including wireless connectivity stereo. It also has a standard headphone jack 3.5 mm and a very good player media. The interface is not up to standards set by the iPhone built-in iPod, but by other standards it up well.

• Memory / Storage

Reviewers are pleased and excited to the Palm Pre. The user interface and multitasking capabilities Garner the lion’s share of praise. Criticism is also always focused around pretty slow loading applications and some general sluggishness. Battery life and lack of expandable memory also took their share of blows. Overall, however, Pre is considered a welcome return to Palm as one of the best smartphones available and a device that should be just the first of several excellent smartphone based on Palm webOS. Competitors will have to pay attention to what Palm did.

• General

Applications for smart phones have also become a major problem and, now, the Palm Pre App Catalog is in its infancy at best. Many applications that were written for the old PalmOS will run on the field with the addition of a third party application called Classic, MotionApps. It sells for about $ 30