Palm Pre finds a totally unofficial home in China

Before phones show up at retail, they start showing up in totally random places in China — it’s basically a law of physics. And once that happens, they almost inevitably end up posted in a forum somewhere, and… well, you can gather where that leads. Chinese firm Ludle — which, according to its own description is in the business of “exploiting, producing and selling” — somehow came across a Pre (or possibly just an empty shell thereof), and a staff member took the time to do a quick set of comparo shots against a Centro and iPhone 3G. He notes that the Pre gets clogged with fingerprints as easily as the iPhone but handles scratching on the back a little better; the front is a different story, though, where the iPhone’s glass display wins. He goes on to say that the phone is currently in mass production (we’d certainly hope so), but what we don’t know is whether we’re looking at a CDMA version for Sprint or the GSM variant destined for sundry networks around the globe. We’ll take either, personally.

[Via PreThinking and TreoCentral]

Palm Pre – in the wild!

Palm Pre gets caught taking a walk in the park http://viigo.im/iGs

Palm Pre – Possibley the Bold killer?!

hi guys,

 

so I’ve been getting a little excited recently, at the announcement and possibility that PALM may finally release a ‘great’ phone. Y am i so excited?

well simply because, the reason i first got into portable  gadgets was because of palm. i was given a palm zire as a gift when i was a first year student at college. this was a transformation from my hefty and at times, embarrassing filofax. i quickly moved onto the palm m515 and then the t3, tungsten and finally Tungsten T5.

 

It was in my 2nd year at university i began to notice the limitations of the palm handheld series and was not to excited at the treo or palm’s phone range. that’s when i went BLACKberry and haven’t looked back since.

however, this new announcement of the palm pre has made me wonder about some of the imitations of the blackberry. Sure its great with email, but i think blackberry lacks some of the simpleness of the palm organisation tools. 

Over the next few months, i’m going to put togther a project to look into the Pre and hopefully be one of the first to get my hands on a Pre when it launches here in the UK. but for now, here’s a video of the palm pre walkthrough…. click the image below to watch the video

Enjoy!