The Palm pre!
Today at CES we got our first look at the Palm pre, sporting the brand new Palm OS. As you can probably see in the picture to the left (thanks, Engadget), it’s a touchscreen smartphone with a slide-out keyboard, 3 megapixel camera and loads of other new and exciting goodies (including a wireless charger). The device was just announced a few hours ago at CES in Las Vegas, but from what we’ve seen so far people seem to be very excited to have a fresh new-look Palm device back on the market (first half of 2009). The pre will be an exclusive from Sprint.
As a partner of Palm’s for over 10 years we’re thrilled and impressed with the work they’ve done. It’s a competitive market these days, but it looks like they may have a winner here. We wish them the best of luck!
We’ll surely be talking more about the pre in the coming weeks so stay tuned. In the meantime you can check out the detailed descriptions and live blogs from the Palm press conference at CES on these sites:
Palm Infocenter – Palm CES Event Liveblog
Engadget – Live from Palm’s CES press conference
TreoCentral – TreoCentral Live at the Palm Keynote
Comments
I've been a Palm user since 1999 and a Docs to Go user since 2005 when I got a TX.
I am definitely getting a Pre and would surely want Docs to Go. I am not sure what this programming environment means for developing a complex program like Docs.
Web development tools seem to not be up to the task, but I don't really know what html5 encompasses.
Posted by: david lyall | February 12, 2009 11:55 AM
@Jason (or anyone else from DataViz):
Cryptic but informative, I like your style ;-p
Best of luck for Dataviz in the future. I swear though, if you guys get DocsToGo for webOS, that's really the killer app suite for me that would get me to choose the Pre over the alternatives. And I don't mean that to pressure you guys, it's just I absolutely love DocsToGo ;-p
Posted by: JayCanuck | January 16, 2009 12:08 AM
@Jay:
You're very observant!
I can't say much about our future plans right now. For now, it sufficies to say we're a long time partner with Palm and (as always) we're excited to see a new, potentially game-changing mobile OS come along. Stay tuned...
Posted by: Jason | January 13, 2009 11:01 AM
I couldn't help but notice the Dataviz logo shown at the presentation. Does this mean DocsToGo for webOS is in the works? ;-p
Posted by: JayCanuck | January 8, 2009 5:18 PM