Welcome to PalmPre Contracts

What is the Palm Pre? A phone set to be a serious rival for likes of the the I-phone and google phone. The palm pre is more than just a smart phone.


"Introducing the Palm Pre - a phone so in sync with your life it feels like its thinking ahead for you. Pre pulls your different online calendars into one view, bringing you the information you want without having to search for it. Pre links your contacts from different sources, giving you one place to find what you need. And Pre delivers incoming messages1 and notifications in an intuitively subtle way, letting you react or respond however you want. People, events, information that matters. With Palm Pre, it will come to you."

Palm Pre

The Palm Pre is similar is size to the Iphone but has an added qwerty keyboard to make access even easier. The phone has a 3.1 inch touchscreen and is set to hit UK stores on the 30th October.

The palm pre runs off a web OS which is similar to use to the iphone but the palm pre allows multiple apps to be run at once.

The palm pre is avaliable exclusively to O2 to begin with but may be availiable eventually with Vodaphone, 3 three and maybe t-mobile.

The palm pre operating system although similar to the iphones is new and exciting.

The palm pre features:

  • Palm webOS
  • Full QWERTY keyboard slides out for easy and quick text messaging
  • 3MP camera with LED flash
  • 3.1-inch touch display with 320-by-480 resolution
  • With GPS and Wi-Fi, you can find where you’re going!
The design is simply fantastic a slide out keyboard for fast easy texing and browing the internet. Watch videos, listen to music even look through picture gallerys. The palm pre can be linked with your outlook and emails. It also uses facebook mobile to bring you the latest updates on your facebook profile. Get notifications of emails, facebook updates, texts, voicemails ...

Browse the web with the palm pre for super fast browsing. Use the search facility on the phone to find absolutely everything! Open multiple applications and move easily between them—email, photos, websites, maps, Anything. Specifications
  • Operating system: Palm® webOS™
  • Display: 3.1-inch touch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color 320x480 resolution HVGA display
  • Keyboard: Physical QWERTY keyboard
  • Email: Microsoft Outlook® email with Microsoft® Direct Push Technology POP3/IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc).
  • Messaging: Integrated IM, SMS, and MMS
  • Digital camera: 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field
  • Phone as laptop modem
  • Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
  • GPS: Built-in GPS
  • Sensors: Ambient light, accelerometer, and proximity
  • Wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with WPA, WPA2, 801.1x authentication
  • USB mass storage support
  • Memory: 8GB of user storage (~7.4GB user available)
  • Headphone jack: 3.5mm stereo
  • Bluetooth tethering Connector: MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Media formats supported

Audio Formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV
Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264
Image Formats: GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP

Dimensions

Width: 59.5mm (2.3 inches)
Height: 100.5mm (3.9 inches)
Thickness: 16.95mm (0.67 inches)
Weight: 135 grams (4.76 ounces)

O2 Palm Pre

Palm Pre Release Date

The plam pre will be avliable on o2 on the 30th october. The price is yet to be published but I would imagine a free palm pre will be avaliable on contracts.