Palm Pre – can it live up to the hype?

A Palm Pre review reveals that when the Pre hit the market with its stylish, designer elegance it matched up to the other touch screens on the market. It is not as big and clumsy as the iPhone and a lot more fun technologically than the Windows Mobile.

As far as compact mobiles go the Palm Pre is a slim, curvaceous number, it has a high-resolution screen with crystal clearness. The buttons have a vibrating feature when you use them, giving the impression that the phone is talking back.  Where the Pre is a winner is with the power behind the screen, and you can multi-task quite easily, something its competitors are still trying to over come. Searching your contacts while downloading is no problem for this mobile.

Palm phones have always had a good search facility and the Pre is no different in this respect. It also has the capacity to suggest and open other programs you may need. Closing applications is just a simple case of waving the icon off the screen.

Organising the chaos of modern life is made easy with the Palm Pre, and it is the phone for someone with an active social network that they need to be in contact with, synchronising your calendar, contacts, Google apps, work diary, Facebook and Twitter. Palm Pre comes with a QWERTY keyboard but it is a little clumsy and difficult to use, while the handset does have a very plastic feel to it.

Not prefect and a little costly but a fun phone to use. Since this is the first generation to incorporate the webOS system it is may be worth waiting to see how the system develops, as there are always glitches in the early stages of any new program.