Look who's here!
The Palm Pre(pronounced "pray", is that a coincidence?) is here and its one of those multi-touch multi-tasking smartphones which means that you can get all touchy-feely with it and also run many apps at once.(It pains to see people get all excited about multi-tasking, I've been multi-tasking since the birth of Christ on symbian s60 but that's another story for another day). Getting back to what i was saying, it means you can read a pdf and listen to music while waiting for your mail to load. But it has one killer feature that no smartphone has ever had.No its not the WebOS, not the cards interface, not the slide-out keyboard either. Here goes, it has a bottom edge so sharp that u can cut cheese! Lets see the iphone or the N97 do that!
Seriously, I was hoping that Palm would get it right this time around with the pre. Well they have come pretty damn close to becoming the new benchmark (read bettering the iphone) except for the crappy hardware(sharp edges,plasticky body, sticky keys,ouch!). They have triumphed the iphone in a lot of departments though starting with the OS (gasp!), the touch screen (double gasp!) and copy-paste (hyper-ventilating now!!) Well i know copy-paste on iphone is almost here but couldn't stop myself! Heck, the Pre even syncs with apple's own itunes by faking its identity n pretending its an ipod!!!
Do read a review of the Pre here.
What's in it for me? Well I once had a nice "relationship" with a Treo 650(Yeah, I'm that kind of a guy!) I still use the Treo when I'm in Hyderabad (over my E71,now that's saying something!) and we have had real good times(except for Blazer,which is only the most retarded mobile browser in the world). So I sincerely hope Palm stays in the game. Well from the looks of it Palm's not going anywhere. Just one suggestion Palm, next time around just file the edges a bit. And while you are at it,try selling your phones in India too!
Eagerly waiting for WWDC (June 8th to 12th) (WWDC is Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference) where Apple is going to announce the next generation of the iphone! Hope to see Steve Jobs this time with his trademark "one more thing..."
The wallpaper i promised in my previous post is still under production!
And one more thing, Can u people guess the city from which my blog has the maximum visits?!
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