Powerful Palm Pre Launch Announced
Powerful Palm Pre Launch Announced
23rd September , 2009
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UK : The Palm Pre has been officially launched on O2 today with an availability date of the 16th October. The Palm Pre will be available to both customers and business customers.
This is the first mobile phone to use the Palm webOS operating software and offers a more user friendly and useful way to connect to your information as well as multi tasking features.
With the new Palm webOS comes Palm Synergy which collates all your information and places it into a single place.
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A full specification for the Palm Pre is below. When its closed, the Palm Pre is easy to use for making phone calls and mobile web browsing and when open is tuned towards easy access to emailing and texting. There is a sliding keyboard if required.
All customers will receive unlimited UK data browsing over O2’s HSDPA network and unlimited access to 7,500 Wi-Fi hotspots through both The Cloud and now BT Openzone.
Palm Pre running Palm webOS is a powerful business device, offering Palm Synergy features, multitasking capabilities, a full sliding keyboard, touch screen, robust messaging, GPS, and compatibility with 3G and secure Wi-Fi networks. It delivers business capabilities, including support for Exchange ActiveSync policies.
Palm Pre will be available on current O2 business tariffs as a monthly bolt on, with the device available for free to account holders on all business tariffs from £30.91on a 24 or 36-month contract. Palm Pre business customers can also receive the same benefits as existing O2 business customers including unlimited calls between O2 customers, unlimited calls to ten landlines, shareable minutes and texts between users plus multi-user billing and activation and free, 24x7 access to business customer care specialists. www.o2.co.uk/business
Ronan Dunne, CEO of Telefonica O2 UK said “Today’s announcement reinforces O2’s position as the home of the smartphone. With the addition of the excellent Palm Pre to our already extensive portfolio, we will continue to offer our customers the widest range of the very best devices on the market today.”
“There’s a lot of excitement about Palm Pre in Europe as we continue to expand Palm webOS products across new carriers and countries,” said Jon Rubinstein chairman and chief executive officer, Palm, Inc. “We look forward to launching Palm Pre with O2 so people in the UK can see firsthand how Palm webOS offers a new and better smartphone experience.”
Operating system
Palm webOS
Network speed
3G HSDPA
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)
Display
3.1-inch touch screen
24-bit color
320×480 resolution
HVGA display
Keyboard
Physical QWERTY keyboard
Microsoft Outlook® email with Microsoft® Direct Push Technology
POP3/IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc)
Messaging
Integrated IM, SMS, and MMS
GPS
Built-in GPS
Digital camera
3 megapixel camera
LED flash
extended depth of field
Wireless connectivity
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with WPA, WPA2, 801.1x authentication
Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
Memory
8GB of user storage
USB mass storage support
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