Friday, January 9, 2009

The iPhone Killer


You seen it here first this is the new Pre made by Palms, due on Sprint in the first half of this year, no pricing yet): It's got a big, 3.1-inch 480 by 320 touch display (yes, with multitouch and an accelerometer), weighs in at 4.8 ounces, and comes with a curved, slide-out keypad. Yes, it does Wi-Fi and 3G (EV-DO Rev. A, to be exact), as well as GPS (with turn-by-turn directions courtesy of TeleNav), stereo Bluetooth, 8GB of internal storage, a 3MP camera, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a removable battery. But the key to the Pre is its OS, and WebOS—previously code-named "Nova"—is one of the hottest mobile platforms I've seen yet, rivaling both Android and Apple's iPhone OS. One of the new features that I think is hot is WebOS's way of letting you handle and sort all your open applications like a deck of cards, so like if you're sending out an email or something you can open up your contacts or any other app and then add content or get back to the email at anytime(now that's hot). I was aroused lol while reading the features, because WebOS also introduces a concept dubbed "Synergy," which all applications can continuously get info from the Web. The best example: WebOS's unified contact list, which seamlessly displays all your contacts and grab their e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and IM handles from Facebook, Gmail, Exchange, you name it(nasty). That's enough to make me say eff T-Mobile and that Fav 5 plan.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

looks neat