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Palm Announces Killer New Phone
Barence writes "At CES, Palm announced what promises to be the product that finally matches and even betters the Apple iPhone, and certainly looks to be the most important product announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. It's called the Palm Pre and it's based on a completely new operating system, called Palm webOS. Its key specs include a 3.1in 320x 480 touchscreen, 8GB of storage, UMTS HDSPA support (in the UK version of the phone), 802.11b/g WLAN, Bluetooth, and GPS. It also includes a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, 3.5mm headphone jack, and what Palm described as the 'fastest ever' Texas Instruments OMAP processor."
quick its coming right at us /ned
"Ahh! Arrogance and stupidity in the same package, how efficient of you!" --Londo Molari
1 - Is is shiny ?
2 - Will it blend ?
If they want a killer phone... just add a gun in it :D
or use old sony battery
"Our new Palm phone will be faster than ever, now that we've switched over to Reiser4!"
Can I mod down the original summary? 'Finally'? I've got an Android G1 and it beats the pants off the iPhone.
Thus far, I have yet to see an "iPhone killer" do anything of the sort.
My Jitterbug disagrees.
I hate being in college sometimes.
Soon you'll be saying: "I hate paying off college sometimes." :)
What I find disturbing is that people consider this to be "the most important product announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show." When as explained in the article, it's something that's as good as a product that's already been on the market for two years.
Indeed - a product that people think is good because it can do what other phones have done for years? It's like the Iphone release all over again ;)
Sucks to be a VB4 developer, doesn't it?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
> even if you get shot down 50 times, you'll get used to it.
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You better. Same thing often happens _after_ you get married
Bark less. Wag more.
I was sensible enough to get sterilised at age 20 - 8 years later, and having to grow up still isn't even on the horizon.
And the next thing you know, you're saying "Get off my lawn!"
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.