Top 10 Features of Palm Pre
The Palm Pre has rolled out quite awhile. There are many reviews of the phone available in the cyber space. Is it just another smartphone or a future blockbuster? What makes Palm Pre stand out from the rest? We have listed the most interesting features of the phone that can make this phone a champion in the smartphone market. The list includes:
- Palm Web OS
- Multitasking Handling
- iTune Capability
- Support for Old Palm Apps
- High Quality Touchscreen Display
- Comfortable Size and Weight
- Syncing with Facebook and Google
- Various Hardware Versions To Be Available
- Charging
- Notifications
1. Palm Web OS
The new OS is very very usable. The design is very intuitive may it be the gestures under the screen or searching contacts and apps from the main screen. The look and feel of the Interface is nice and cool with fluid animations and rounded corners. The name ‘Web OS’ is appropriately chosen as the design structure follows the basic web design patterns and motifs.
2. Multitasking Handling
‘Cards’ represent the running apps in Palm Pre OS. You can shuffle th ‘cards’ and scroll through them to select task. Swapping between tasks is easier than ever. However, running too many apps at a time slows down things a bit (This is obvious. Any system can’t have infinite resources.)
3. iTune Capability
Pre can pretend to be an iPod when synced to iTunes. You can transfer music and videos without much of a problem but some features like song ratings and play counts aren’t supported by Pre.
4. Support for Old Palm Apps
If you are using and old Palm, don’t worry about the eBook reader or Epocrates Medical Software, they’ll still run on the new Palm Pre. Changing over to new Palm is simple and easy.
5. High Quality Touchscreen Display
The screen is sharp and clear. The touch sensitivity is better and quicker than iPhone.
6. Comfortable Size and Weight
The form factor is a natural fit in both hands and pocket. The rounded pebble shape is easy to grip and the weight is just the right for a phone.
7. Syncing with Facebook and Google
Synergy can be used to merge your Facebook or Google contacts and put them on your phone. You don’t have to create them separately. The push Gmail service is also very useful.
8. Various Hardware Versions To Be Available
They are planning to release the phone with several hardware versions. They all will run on the Web OS. This is basically opposite of the iPhone which has the same hardware and a new OS is launched every year.
9. Charging
There is a totally cordless charger : the Palm Touchstone, the Puck
10. Notifications
The notifications are simple and occupies only partial screens that doesn’t interrupt the work.
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June 18th, 2009 at 2:24 am
So it’s compatible with iTunes… cool. Who cares about the rating and play count anyway?
I think I like this better than iPhone.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
A very good list, just a couple of things to note:
1. It’s called “webOS”. When people imply it’s Web OS it gives it a whole another meaning. The underlying OS is actually GNU/Linux with a top layer of programs or widgets coded in web technologies that reside on the device (meaning you don’t have to be actually connected to web to have useful applications) and act as any other app on your home computer.
2. You should mention the usage of old PalmOS apps requires a $30 investment in a third party app that already comes on the Pre with a 7 day trial.
3. Synergy does something nobody has done before for contacts, calendar, messaging and email. Each of your contacts gets populated with information from various places, like if somebody adds a new number or changes it’s old one on Facebook, you’ll be up to date without even knowing
Your email inbox can be filled with many different email accounts (but you can still see them separately when you wish to do so) and when it comes to messaging, Synergy just makes so much sense it’s funny nobody thought of implementing it before. Your conversations are grouped by your contact, not by the means of contacting (SMS, IM, MMS) so you could be chatting with someone with SMS and suddenly you see they went online, you just reply in the same window (chat style conversation) but now through IM if you’re online too.
4. I’d personally put smart notifications much earlier in the list simply because for people who use their phones enough that they frequently get interrupted by various notifications, Pre’s or webOS cleverly placed notifications make this a no-issue from now on.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Don’t forget to fess-up and let people know the they aren’t actually applications that run on WebOs… they’re just simply Java applets, they look like applications, but have limited functionality… you know, widgets.