The Palm Pre offers excellent functionality

The Palm Pre is a slider style phone that comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and a wide variety of functionality. Utilising an ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz CPU and its Palm Web operating system this phone offers responsive multitasking capabilities within an impressively designed casing. Measuring 100 mm x 59 mm wide and 60 mm thick, it is a compact handset as well as being relatively lightweight, as it is only 133 g in weight.



The handset comes with a 3.1 inch TFT capacitive touch screen which operates at a pixel screen size of 320 x 480 pixels and is able to accurately display up to 16 million colours and their variants. Colours are displayed in what is termed true life colour representation. Seated behind screen is a full QWERTY keyboard which simply slides out from the bottom of the handset, the keyboard is simple to use and responsive to touch. The display screen comes with an accelerometer sensor which automatically rotates imagery dependent upon the aspect of the image and the orientation of the phone.


The Palm Pre comes with a myriad of connectivity options which include GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, Blue tooth and microUSB as well as an infrared port. This multitude of connections provides the means to connect the device to a wide variety of devices and systems and offers its user the ability to perform numerous tasks whilst out and about. Internet access is provided by the handset at fast speeds with the added benefit of being able to utilise nationally available Wi Fi hotspots. In addition GPS is built into the handset and provides satellite navigation.


The phone comes with a 3.15 mega pixel camera which provides an enhanced fixed focus as well as an LED flash. This is suitably good enough quality to provide imagery that can be displayed on this screen as well as being printed out. The handset comes with an internal memory of 8 GB, which is suitably large enough to provide enough space for plenty of media files.



The Palm Pre is elegant handset, which offers an excellent level of functionality and usability for the price. It provides many useful features that are utilised in other handsets, however Palm have endeavoured to strip out unnecessary items such as an MP3 player and radio. This unit is meant to be utilised as a workhorse and for internet access and since its release in October 2009 has proved to be a popular unit.



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