The Palm Pre is an all-new smartphone designed from the ground-up to work with the web. The Palm Pre's multitasking capabilities and notifications system are unparalleled. The smartphone features a vibrant display with multitouch functionality as well as a solid Web browser and good multimedia integration. The Pre offered good call quality and wireless options include 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. It runs an all-new operating system called "webOS" that is based on linux and sports innovative features like Synergy for syncing and multitasking "cards" to quickly switch between tasks. The Pre itself is incredibly small yet has a large touchscreen and a slide-down keyboard. Quite simply, it's incredible.
The glossy-black Pre has a uniquely curved slider body that's dominated by its 3.1-inch, 320-by-480-pixel capacitive touch display. The 'capacitive' part means that the Pre responds to your finger instead of requiring a stylus. The screen slides up and curves slightly toward you, a design intended to resist glare and make the phone feel comfortable in your hand and against your face. Amazingly Palm Pre Repair Parts are now available. There's a 3.5mm headphone jack, power button, a call lock switch on top, a side mini-USB port (with a cover) on the right side and volume controls on the left side. The phone just feels right in your hand – resting right in your palm and not quite as elongated (with the keyboard closed) as the iPhone or as thick and bulky as the T-Mobile G1.
The camera is adequate, offering 3.0 megapixels and an LED flash. the Pre's camera took satisfactory pictures. The Palm Pre has got a solid set of multimedia features. The built-in media player supports a number of formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, and AMR music files and MPEG-4, H263, and H264 video formats. The music player offers basic functions: play/pause, track forward/back, and shuffle and repeat modes. In addition to the standard forward/back buttons, you can swipe the album covers to proceed through songs. It's not quite as slick as the iPhone's Cover Flow feature, but it works.
There's quite a lot to say about WebOS, Palm's all-new operating system for the Palm Pre. It's based on linux, but unlike the linux-based Android operating system, webOS feel much more polished overall. WebOS is one of the silkiest and best-designed smartphone platforms to come along in a while--it's right up there with Apple's iPhone OS and Google's Android. Reportedly, Palm Pre repair services are not as costly as iPhone or other Smart phones. The home-screen interface has customizable application widgets running at the bottom. Touch a widget, and the app instantly pops up. Unfortunately, you can display only four shortcuts of your choosing (plus the Launcher shortcut, which you can't switch out) at a time. The Palm Pre web browser is wonderful. It ought to be, web technologies power the entire webOS, so the browser needs to be fast and powerful. It is both of those things.
The Palm Pre's lock screen has a 'Swipe to unlock' feature that's similar to what you've seen on the iPhone, but better. Instead of a horizontal slider, there's simply a lock button. You grab it and slide it up and out of a semi-circle to unlock the screen (alternately, you can just slide down the keyboard to unlock). This makes it very convenient for both left and right-handed people. Notifications are another of the incredibly cool features on the Palm Pre. The short version is this: they get your attention without ever getting in your way. At the bottom of the Palm Pre is a 'notification area' and that's where all your email, calendar, SMS, IM, and other alerts go.
"Synergy" is Palm's name for the other big, innovative feature of the Palm Pre. The Pre is designed to live 'in the cloud' (where by 'cloud' I mean the internet) instead of needing to be tethered to your computer to sync. Instead of hooking your phone up to the computer via USB, the Pre pulls down all of your key data directly from the internet. Synergy works with Contacts, Calendars, Email, and Tasks (but tasks only work with Exchange). Synergy is very smart about how it handles all of the data it downloads. Data from all of your sources is displayed together, but behind the scenes they never mix. This means that you won't get stuck with duplicate contacts.
Palm Pre functions as a camera phone, a portable media player, and has location and navigation capabilities. The Pre also serves as a personal information manager, has a number of communication and collaboration applications, and has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity built-in. Overall, Palm Pre is the smallest Smartphone, carrying almost every feature, and a real competitor to iPhone yet.
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