Released over the weekend, the Pre is easily the most eagerly anticipated phone released from Palm in a decade, and is seen as the first true competitor to the iPhone.  It involves many smart phone features like touchscreen, 3rd-party apps and so on.
However, the most stunning feature is undoubtedly multi-tasking. It gets around the inherent difficulty of multitasking with a concept dubbed “cards” which work like windows on a regular computer. When browsing open apps or web pages, you swipe through the cards as if viewing photos. Tap on a card to use the app. The other apps are still active; your inbox still collects mail, web pages still update.

The Pre also offers an extremely useful notification bar at the lower end of the screen that informs you of what’s happening in various apps, like new e-mails received, music playing and even lets you pause or skip to the next song while you’re doing something else.

 The Pre uses removable batteries, which are easy to replace. Pre’s lustrous and compact form also hides a tiny slide-out physical keyboard. It’s a compromise between ease of typing and accuracy as the keyboard is too small for genuine thumb typing, and is hence a bit slow to generate text.

Palm offers a variety of options for setting up, including syncing contacts from Facebook and Gmail, but the most useful way to do it is Media Sync, which employs iTunes software, i.eon plugging in the device, the computer thinks the new device is an iPod, and lets you load songs, photos, videos and contacts into the Pre.

The Pre’s 3-megapixel camera has an LED flash, though it can’t capture streaming video. The device also has “universal search” that finds matches for keywords in the contents of the phone, or on the web, Wikipedia or Twitter. An amazing “synergy” feature lets you aggregate IM, SMS and e-mail messages with someone into a single threaded conversation.

Generally, the Pre’s software, called WebOS, is intuitive and effective but the Pre’s browser doesn’t run Flash. The first version comes with only 8 GB of storage.
All-in-all, the multitasking Palm Pre brims with power, potential, a great look and superb feel.

• Style: Slider, Smartphone
• Screen: touch, 3.1 inch
• Service Provider: Sprint Nextel
• Camera Resolution: 1 to 3 megapixels
• Manufacturer: Palm
• Price: $200 (with 2-year contract)

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