The Palm Pre: A Revolution In The Making?
June 30 2009 Categorized Under: Cell Phones Tags; linux for mobile, palm, pre, review, smartphone, touch phone, webOS 11 Commented
It has been a while since the Palm Pre has been released and much has already been said about it. One thing that should be highlighted here is that Palm’s existence is was at stake here. (I think it is safe to say that Pre is more or less a hit)
Palm was once known as the company who practically invented the smart phone category. But that is but a distant past now. It has barely kept up with the times and as we all know – the iPhone has been eating in to everybody’s market. Arguably, had the iPhone not existed we would not have seen the likes of HTC Hero, Sony XPERIA or may be even the Palm Pre. But the iPhone has upped the ante for everybody and love it or hate it – you can’t ignore it. Every touch phone will be measured against the iPhone.
So how does the Pre measure up? It measures up quite well actually but mostly in the OS and touch/gestures area. Continue reading “The Palm Pre: A Revolution In The Making?” »
