Post #14

I have continued to read from the site engadget, this time about the newly announced phone from palm. The new phone is called the Palm Pre, and is definitely designed to be a huge competitor of the iPhone. This phone has a 3.1" multitouch display, which means it will be able to support features such as pinch zoom. The bottom the phone though, also is touch sensitive, and is going to be used for gestures. The phone also has many standards that a phone of this caliber have, such as wi-fi, 8GB of memory, and a 3MP camera with a flash. Another interesting feature of this phone, is that of the wireless charger, that will be standard with the phone. After Palm not making any real break into the market for the past couple years, it will be interesting to see if this phone will be able to turn things around for them, after years in the shadows of others. Before this years CES, it was said that this was Palm's last chance to save themselves from assured destruction, by coming out with a breakthrough device. Hopefully this is that device, and the one that will keep them afloat, otherwise we may be seeing a buy out of them from someone like Motorola, LG, or Nokia.