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The Palm Pre features Synergy technology, which gathers all your information from different sources and puts them together in one place for you to see. Instead of having your information scattered in different screens, the Pre automatically brings them together so you can easily find what you need. If you have calendars from Microsoft Outlook, Google, and Facebook, Synergy will automatically gather all your appointments and put them into one easy-to-view calendar, so you won't miss an appointment again. The Pre also makes managing your contacts simple -- not only will it gather your contacts from different places such as Google, Exchange, and Facebook, but if you have the same contacts in different places, this revolutionary phone will automatically link them together so they show up just once. And all your conversations with the same person will automatically be gathered into one chat-style view. For example, if you start a conversation via text message with someone, the Pre lets you quickly reply via IM or email.
The Palm Pre features a sleek design that looks great and fits easily into your pocket. It measures 2.3 x 3.9 x 0.67 inches (WxHxD) and weighs just 4.75 ounces. The pebble-shaped phone has a beautiful 3.1-inch touch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color 320x480 resolution display that lets you watch videos in full widescreen format. When it's time to write an email, you don't have to settle for a small onscreen keyboard. Simply slide out the QWERTY keyboard for fast and accurate text input. The Palm Pre has 8GB of built-in memory and uses a standard 3.5mm stereo headphone jack so you can connect any headphone you want. 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS Keeps You Connected Live Email that Connects with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync WebOS Operating System Lets You Multitask and Do More The webOS features universal search capability, so if you need to find anything, simply start typing. The Pre will first search through your contacts and applications to see if it can find what you're looking for, and then it will offer to search Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia or Twitter. No matter what you're looking for, the Pre will quickly help you find it.
Take and View Photos, Watch Videos, and Listen to Music Download Applications Directly Onto Your Phone Automatic Over-the-Air Back Up * Activating and Setting Up the Palm Pre on First Use What's in the Box User Submitted Palm Pre Phone (Sprint) ReviewsDate: 2010-08-20 Best phone I've ever owned What makes it so great is the WebOS operating system. This Smartphone operating system is hands down better than any other on the market including Android and the iPhone iOS. Date: 2010-08-13 Don't bother, it's junk Between the random power shutdowns and the fragility of this tech fail, you may as well hang on to your dial-up rotary phone. I'm shopping right now to replace it... and honestly, i'm surprised it hasn't gotten skipped across the Potomac within a week of receiving it. Buy any other phone...I will. Date: 2010-08-12 Nice concept, horrible execution I bought this phone when it came out last year. The WebOS concept is very good, and the interface is nice and clean. HOWEVER, 1) The phone is super flimsy!! The two pieces wobble when it's open. I dropped it ONCE from about 3 ft and the corner broke. 2) The keyboard sucks. They look and feel like gummy bears, and are prone to stick. Sometimes I get no letters; sometimes I get double letters. 3) The CPU is underpowered for what the software wants to do. Everything's got a three second delay. 4) Too many software bugs. When I wake up the phone sometimes the time display rolls back a minute or two. WTF?? 5) Need to charge the phone every day. Even if you barely use it at all, with five bars signal, it still dies by the end of the day. 6) App store is a joke. Sprint's network is pretty decent where I live, but every time I type on the phone I want to smash it, that's how bad it is. Save yourself some headache and buy something else. Date: 2010-07-24 Only on good thing about it phone looks sleek but is easily scuffed and scratched. The only good thing about this phone is its ability to multi-task and the camera decent. it beats the iphone on that. the palm pre has Terrible apps, slow processing speed, lots of software problems. Its not worth getting. Get the sprint EVO if you are to go with spring. Sprint will not allow you any movement with the phone. your stuck with it. stay away! Date: 2010-07-16 The idea is great, but flawed Let's start with the good: I was super excited when I got this phone. The multi-app feature is really great. Very very convenient. I really can't rave about this enough because I can be on the phone with anyone, and I can surf the web, text, and play sudoku all at the same time. This is just phenomenal to me. I like the keyboard as I have very small hands, so it's not difficult to type on. Okay now the bad: 1. This phone is incredibly delicate and flimsy. My phone slipped off of my bed and onto the carpet, and it CRACKED. So naturally, I bought a protector for it. Because of the phone's design, the only protectors available are the hard plastic ones. I literally went through three of them in four weeks before I decided to give up on them all together, the tiny tabs that hold them are are just not strong enough and they break so easily. Much less, the case doesn't protect it if you drop it. In both instances I dropped it (from short distances I might add), the case actually popped off and broke, offering no protection at all. The phone just isn't designed well enough to support any kind of protective apparatus that doesn't fully enclose it. Also, when I put the first case on my new phone, it actually scuffed up the corners. This phone is soooooo delicate, I must reiterate. 2. Some of the touch buttons on the phone have an incredible delay. When I push to answer a phone call, it takes at least 3 seconds for the call to pick up. When my alarm goes off, I literally have to push the screen three or four times before it will respond. I should also add that the phone doesn't hang up right away when you push the end button. Sometimes it takes 3 seconds or so, giving me ample time to curse at the lag of my phone while I am still leaving my mother a voicemail. 3. My alarms go off when I have the phone on SILENT. This is just ridiculous in my opinion and it was especially inconvenient when I figured it out as my alarm went off in the middle of my class, and it took me several seconds to press the dismiss button. Also, alarms I have set randomly turn off on me, which is incredibly inconvenient. 4. Battery life is abysmal at best. If I don't charge my phone every night, it WILL die. I don't even make a lot of phone calls either and I only use the internet/navigation when absolutely necessary, so this applies even with minimal use of the phone. And one thing I hate the most about this phone is this: say your battery is going low. Most people turn their phones off to preserve batter life, right? I do this with the Pre and my battery life goes DOWN even more. I have never had a phone that does this and it really just pisses me off. So basically, this is a phone with a great concept and a horrible design. If you are patient and graceful and capable of never dropping your phone, then maybe this phone would be great for you; just keep it in some sort of leather case. Multitasking really is top-notch and if you choose to buy this phone, then this should be the reason you buy it. Overall this phone has served its purpose, but I would much rather have something more reliable. Oh and the touchstone charger is a joke (or mine was at least). It's supposed to be convenient; just drop and go... but I swear I had to stand there for a least 30 seconds moving it to a position where it would actually charge. It's so inconvenient, I just plug my phone in now.
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