REVIEW: Palm Pre

The key features are 3.1" 16M-color TFT display of 320 x 480 pixel resolution and excellent sunlight legibility, 3 megapixel fixed focus camera, LED flash, Quad-band GSM support, 256 MB RAM, Sliding-out full QWERTY keyboard, Palm webOS, which is an innovative multi-touch user interface, heavy on multitasking, Touch-enabled Gesture Area, Built-in GPS receiver, Wi-Fi, 8 GB of onboard storage, Accelerometer, proximity sensor, 3.5 mm audio jack, Bluetooth with A2DP support, Office document viewer.

But the phone has some disadvantages too like no video calls over the 3G network, No memory card slot, Glossy plastics, love fingerprints, Camera has no auto focus… nor any settings at all, disappointing image quality, No video recording unless hacked, Web browser lacks Flash support, No Bluetooth file transfers, Small and fiddly QWERTY keyboard keys, No onscreen keyboard, portrait typing only, No smart dialing. These are a LOT of disadvantages; but let’s keep our fingers crossed.

Palm Pre does resemble the iPhone, to a great extent but the fact is that there are quite a few differences and the Palm Pre is a fresh and exciting addition to the world of smartphones. The webOS may have adopted from the iPhone OS, but we can’t call it a copy cat at all as it is trying to do things its way! It is not fully capable still and has room for improvement but is good in a sense as it is the company’s first step in coming out with an iPhone type handset.

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