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Published:: 8 Jan 2009
Market Status:: Released
US carrier availability:: Sprint - Available
(Since Jun 2009 ); Verizon - Upcoming
Expected (unofficial):
Early 2010
Links:: Palm Pre Official page; Hands-on with Palm Pre; Palm Pre Review; Palm Pre Manual
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Description:

Palm Pre is the first phone to run on the new Web OS, designed to be powerful but easy to use. The Pre features a 3.1" multi-touch screen and a sliding full QWERTY keyboard. It is a CDMA/EV-DO smart phone with Wi-Fi, GPS, 3-megapixel camera with flash, stereo Bluetooth, microUSB, and 8GB of internal memory.

User rating: Good; 7.8; out of 10; based on 51 reviews

Editor's rating: Excellent; 9.9; out of 10; How do we rate?

Palm Pre specifications

Announced
- Date
  - 8 Jan 2009
Network
- Type
  - CDMA dual band (800/1900 MHz)
- Data
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    CDMA2000 1xRTT/1xEV-DO rev.0/1xEV-DO rev.A
- 3G Capable
  - Yes
Size
- Dimensions
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    3.96 x 2.34 x 0.67 inches (100.5 x 59.5 x 16.9 mm) Size Compare
- Weight
  - 4.76 oz (135 g)
Battery
- Type
  - Li - Ion, 1150 mAh
- Talk
  - 5 hours (300 mins) of Talk time
- Standby
  - 300 hours (13 days) of Stand-by time
Main Display
- Resolution
  - 320 x 480 pixels
- Type
  - 16 777 216 colors, TFT
- Physical Size
  - 3.10 inches
- Features
  - Light sensor
- Touch Screen
  - Yes, Multi-touch
Camera
- Resolution
  - 3 megapixels Resolution
- Features
  - Flash: LED, Geo tagging
Multimedia
- Video Playback
  - MPEG4, H.263, H.264
- Music Player
  - MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, AMR
Memory
- Built-in
  - 8 GB
Smartphone
- OS
  - WebOS
- Processor
  - ARM Cortex-A8
Input
- Predictive Text Input
  - Yes
- Full Keyboard
  - QWERTY
Connectivity
- Internet
  - WAP 2.0, HTML
- USB
  - microUSB
- WiFi
  - 802.11b/802.11g
- Bluetooth
  - 2.1, Stereo Bluetooth
- Connectors
  - HeadPhone Jack (3.5mm)
Other Features
- PhoneBook
  - Capacity depends on system memory, Multiple Numbers Per Contact, Picture ID, Ring ID
- PIM
  - Alarm, Calendar, Calculator, TO-DO, Notes, Memo
- Voice
  - Recording, Speaker Phone
- Email
  - IMAP/POP3/SMTP/Microsoft Exchange/Microsoft Direct Push e-mail/Push e-mail
- GPS
  - Yes
- FCC Approved
  - Yes

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Bought Pre on Day 1, now swapping to Samsung Moment

16 Nov 2009 jbholt1

6.7 out of 10

My other half and I got our Pre's the day they came out. This phone was over-hyped in my opinion. It's slow. That's my biggest annoyance with it. I would be trying to make a call and I'm wondering what the hell it's doing, so I hit the on-screen phone button again. Guess what? It just hung up the call that I was starting! I wanted to pull my hair out over that. Every application is slow except the web. It had a terrific web browser. It was faster than any other mobile browser I have used. Other than that, I got to where I hated this phone. Calendar is terrible. It is very slow. If you had to go to a date in the future (or even the next day for that matter), it would take probably five seconds with a blank calendar before it would start showing the events for that day. (That comes back to it being slow.) The calendar was terrible in other ways too, such as you could only snooze the appts for 5 minutes. What good is that?? Palm updated this four times in the time I had it and I saw no performance increase. I even did hard resets several times to make sure that I wasn't doing something to slow it down. I don't see how this phone can get such high ratings when they rate the Samsung Moment so low. I have been using that for a week and it is awesome. Apps are up as soon as you click them, the camera is awesome, the speakerphone is very loud, keyboard is great, AMOLED display, 800 MHz processor, etc.. The only thing the Pre is better at is looks. The Pre is much thinner and smaller. I guess that all people care about.

Pros

-Nice design
-Nice screen
-Good size
-Very good browser, if not the best mobile browser
-Decent Camera
-Uses standard micro USB
-Touchstone charger (You have to buy it for $70 though)

Cons

-Slow!!
-Updated four times, still slow!
-Bad build quality. It got better over time and so Sprint replaced mine, but the slider was still shaky. I bought this phone on day 1.
-Very few apps, apps that are available are mostly useless
-You have to pay extra for Touchstone charger
-Calendar not very good. Only offers a 5 minute snooze for reminders that pop up?!
-Fragile
-Keyboard

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Comeback to "comeback to "conflict of interest""

10 Nov 2009 Tommy

1 out of 10

Quote: "I just wanted to make a post to the "conflict of interest" guy. Just a little FYI, on the bottom where it says "PHONE ARENA NETWORK: WEBOS ARENA, ANDROID ARENA" Those are just links to go to the "web os arena site" stop freaking out idiot!................................................................................................... "

At the bottom of webosarena.com, it says: "This site is part of the PhoneArena network"

If you cannot see the conflict of interest here (a review site, which also run a spesific os site), you don't know the meaning of the saying "conflict of interest".

To refrase it: Lets picture a fictive website called mobiledevicereviews.com. They also run a website called theincredibleiphoneosx.com.

Would you say there would be no conflict of interest if the mobiledevicereviews.com gave iPhone (running osx) a 10/10, saying it is the best phone in the world (and giving poor reasons for it too, as i described about palm pre). Mobiledevicereviews would not be a neutral part, if they are involved with a spesific party in which they review. That is called a conflict of interest.

It is funny, how the whole review about palm pre has "Jumped" over the parts where it is at best only mediocre, like the camera, video, screen size, external speakers, etc. Also funny, how when referring to multitouch, he shows how the bottom meny can be dragged up and down the screen, telling how cool isn't that..? When did moving a bottom meny make a phone good at all? It would be like giving the Jet a plus for having a cube meny which is nothing but annoying, just because it looks cool the first time you see it. Un-nessesary features would AT BEST be forgiven for being there in the first place.

phonearena.com, please reconsider your review. I would like the russian to review the phone instead, he seems to be (although not completely) less biased about the various phones.

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comeback to "conflict of interest"

10 Nov 2009 comeback to "conflict of interest"

9 out of 10

I just wanted to make a post to the "conflict of interest" guy. Just a little FYI, on the bottom where it says "PHONE ARENA NETWORK: WEBOS ARENA, ANDROID ARENA" Those are just links to go to the "web os arena site" stop freaking out **!...................................................................................................

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