Palm Pre unboxing
By Will Park on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 5:48 PM PST In Devices, Hottest Hardware, Palm, Palm Pre, Photos, Reviews, Web OS
It was a long time coming, but we’ve finally gotten our hands on the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre from Sprint (NYSE: S)! You know what that means… unboxing pics! Just in case you haven’t yet had your fill of Palm Pre box-shots and in-hand photos, take a gander at our unboxing gallery.
For the rock-dwellers out there, the Palm Pre is the first Palm smartphone to run Palm’s all-new WebOS operating system. The finger-friendly WebOS features true multi-tasking support and works well with the capacitance (non-squishy) touchscreen on the Palm Pre. Swipe-gestures are used to navigate around the device, while a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard handles all your text input needs. The 3-megapixel auto-focus camera (with flash) and 8GB of on-board storage sweeten the deal even more.
Web surfing is pretty enjoyable, but definitely slower than the iPhone 3GS. Multi-touch integration is already proving to be handy. And, the tic-tac-sized keys are getting easier to use (although, still a bit awkward). The Touchstone wireless charging dock is awesome. It’s not exactly going to free you of having to use USB cables, but it’s a darn good first step in the right direction!
Syncing with iTunes is pretty easy (I haven’t updated my iTunes yet – that would kill the Pre sync capability). Missing Sync (available in the App Catalog) makes the rest of my info-syncing convenient.
More Palm Pre thoughts to come…
