iParadise Lost
The trials of a long-term mac user
Thursday 8 January 2009, 7:32 PM
New Palm Pre and Web OS - updated
3.1 inch touch screen
gesture area
slide keyboard
USB connection
replacable battery
3 mega camera
tabbed desktop (like old hyper cards)
They are calling a real flow OS something that just floats around with you rearrange all the apps and where they are slide app off the screen to delete all apps are auto saving....
There will be a GSM version but absolutely no word on price and when it will be out (palm are terrible at releasing stuff). Seems there is no onscreen keyboard and one of the key difference is the OS seems to bulk everything together IM SMS email messages by person or date. You can all drift in and out seemlessly between application.
It also comes with a dreamy device called a touchstone for magnetic charging look nice but no sure how practical that is.
Love to get my hands on one as didn't the RIM Storm look great until you touched the thing !!
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Well this is basically a phone based around dashboard as a concept. I think PC users call them widgets. I'm not sure how well it is actually going to work. I agree the charging concept is probably a bit "out there" the Engadget / Gizmodo crowd are wetting their pants over it so it must be good. /sarcasm off
I think it appears to be the answer to "What can we do that will look great in answer to the iPhone?" So cut and paste, physical keyboard a higher res camera and open to everyone to program. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition. Basically a tick list of what the iPhone doesn't do at the moment. The fact it has no price and a vague promise of we'll release it sometime in the first half of the year doesn't bode well. But it has done the Palm share price a world of good - up 34% on the day which sounds great except that is actually only a dollar in real terms.
So well done Palm, you've got people's attention again. BUT now you have to deliver. (btw just because there are 100,000's of people who CAN "program" in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript doesn't mean people will.) So wait until you actually have real developers for the thing before you start listing how many people ARE writing for it.
