Palm Pre – Design and Specification

Posted by : Dexter Panganiban on January 10, 2009 | ; Filed Under Mobile

Palm Pre

CES 2009 – Shows a lot of Mobile Phone and one of those is The new Palm Pre which has curved body with a slide-out vertical QWERTY keyboard and multi-touch screen. According to those who have seen this in action at CES 2009, It has a slick in appearance and efficient in function, its webOS aims to bring together all of the facets of your life into one seamless application. They are also saying that the Pre looks like it could be a major threat to the iPhone and Android-based G1.

Palm has not set an exact availability date or a price for the Pre, but it will be on Sprint’s 3G network.

Here’s what we know about the specs on the Palm Pre:

High-speed wireless (EV-DO Rev. A or HSDPA, depending on version)
802.11b / g WiFi with WPA, WPA2, 801.1x authentication
3.1-inch 24-bit color 480 x 320 display
Dedicated gesture area below display
Slide-out portrait QWERTY keyboard (banana slider)
Integrated IM, MMS, and SMS messaging
Email: Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Direct Push Technology POP3/IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc). So it does push exchange email, but the rest is not push.
Built-in GPS
Bluetooth 2.1 EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
High-performance browser
3 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field
3.5mm headphone jack
8GB of internal storage (~7.4GB user available)
USB mass storage support
Phone as laptop modem – Bluetooth tethering
MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Proximity sensor for detecting when phone is near face
Light sensor to automatically dim display
Audio Formats: MPS, AAC, AAC , AMR, QCELP, WAV Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 Image Formats: GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP
Ringer mute switch
Removable rechargeable battery
Width: 59.5mm (2.3 inches) Height: 100.5mm (3.9 inches) Thickness: 16.95mm (0.67 inches)
Weight: 135 grams (4.76 ounces)

Source : treocentral.com

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6 Responses to “Palm Pre – Design and Specification”

Huan22 on January 10th, 2009 11:32 pm

I didn’t know Palm was still around, I thought they got acquired or something.

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Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
@Huan22,
I Think this is what they calle the resurrection…

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Huan22 Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
@Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net,

Hahahaha, You’re right they have been resurrected.

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Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net Reply:
January 10th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
@Huan22,

Yup and they are thinking that this mobile will lift them up

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Huan22 on January 10th, 2009 11:56 pm

I hope so, to time it with todays economic crisis. How much will this smartphone will sell when it hit shelves?

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Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net Reply:
January 11th, 2009 at 2:07 am
@Huan22,

Nothing has been said with regards to the price.. I just think it will cost about $500

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