Affordability is key with the Palm Pre

The palm Pre is a phone which has come from the stable of one of the worlds best PDA manufacturers and in this handset it shows. Utilising their considerable expertise, they have conjured up a handset that hits all the right buttons and provides a handset which is comfortable to use whilst being eminently functional. The phone uses the ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz processor as well as the PowerVR SGX graphics chip to ensure quality of service. The Palm operating system completes the package. All of these features added together means this phone is a formidable handset.


The phone has a 3.1 inch TFT touch screen which is colourful and offers true life like colours thanks to its abilities to display up to 16 million colours. The addition of an accelerometer sensor ensures that without any need of user input, images are amended their optimum aspect.


A 3 mega pixel camera is included within the package which comes with an enhanced fixed focus as well as an LED flash for illumination. The camera offers the ability to take effective images which can be printed out if required, however at this resolution it is not one of the strongest points of the handset. The full QWERTY keyboard on the other hand is one of the best elements of this phone and is located behind the front face of the phone. It is simple to use and yet effective in terms of data entry. The emergence of these types of keyboard have made text and data entry far easier that with traditional non QWERTY type phones.


Connections provided by the Palm Pre include GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA and Wi-Fi, Blue tooth and microUSB are also included. This ensures that the phone is able to connect to multiple devices whilst out and about as well as providing internet access and the ability to access hot spots wherever located. For satellite navigation, the phone provides GPS.


The palm Pre is a fulsome handset with a raft of features, the handset comes with 8Gb of internal memory which is large enough to cater for most needs. It provides an array of functions that are useful and not simply added on to try to tempt the consumer.


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