Palm Pre Throws Down with iPhone and Android

Still not sure about the Pre? Here’s a battle royale to give you the goods.

We’re been trolling the web and the outburst of excitement for the newly announced Palm Pre has reached a hysterical level. We still don’t have confirmed release date or price – but Gizmodo featured this great comparison chart – pitting the Palm Pre against the iPhone and the Android-based G1 – that we wanted to bring it to your attention. Comparisons like this:

2. Multitasking: One of the beefiest of our beefs with the iPhone SDK is its insistence on Apps running one at a time. The G1′s notifications drawer was definitely a step in the right direction, but the Pre’s interface is the first smartphone OS that was built with multitasking as a core design element. Resembling the Xbox’s old Blades, or a less-jarring OS X Expose even, the Pre’s “Cards” interface always places you in the context of every app running for fast switching, and notifications from other apps don’t pull you away completely from the task at hand. Multitasking is hugely important on a phone, and it’s a good sign that Palm recognizes. Advantage: Pre

We’ll have to wait till one of Hong Kong’s carrriers brings it to our city to have a real hands-on review, but keep it tuned here as we’ll definitely be keeping a Neonpunch eye on this new battlefield.

Palm Suprises CES with its New ‘Palm Pre’

Just when you thought they were out, they pull themselves back in.

We remember when the Palm Pilot was all the rage in Hong Kong. The essential gadget to show to everyone that you were organized and high-tech. And then one day they just disappeared.

Now Palm returns to the ring like Rocky Balboa, with their new mobile phone and OS with the Palm Pre, a touchscreen, slide-out mobile phone that may seem like a copy of the G1 and learnt tricks from the iPhone but does look to bring new things to the table and is more of a next-generation Treo, which many people loved.

We’ll have to see this for ourselves, but the coverage at Gizmodo does interest us to see more. Its good that Palm isn’t out yet, but will this be enough to bring them back somewhere near the top? A full 20-minute review playing with it is here and so far Gizmodo gives it a thumbs up.

UPDATE: Engadget has posted the full video for the Palm Pre press conference at CES, so click here to watch the full presentation. For those skeptics out there, Palm stock shot up 35% the hour after this presentation – so keep your eyes on this phone.