Crazy for the Palm Pre

Humor: My Palm Pre Now Runs iphone 3.0! jkOnTheRun,

TweetDeck for iPhone does what I thought was practically impossible: perfectly replicates the powerful column experience of the desktop TweetDeck on the iPhone, and in a surprisingly usable and snappy way. In a way, performance is actually the most impressive thing about it. Running 4-5 columns, the app responds instantly as you fluidly move from column to column, from tweet to profiles, from account to account.

Filed under: Software , Palm , webOS It didn’t take long for the the iPhone’s release for it to get a VNC client enabling remote desktop access. No surprise, then, that it’s taken even less time for Palm’s Pre to get similar functionality — well, the beginnings of similar functionality, anyway. As the thrilling video after the break proves, it’s possible to get today’s hottest smartphone to connect to a VNC server, but rather sadly keyboard and mouse support aren’t there yet.

Filed under: Handsets , Palm , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS It boggles the mind that Palm is still totally silent on the issue of global Pre availability; yes, granted, Apple employed similar foot-dragging following the original iPhone’s launch, but the difference there was that Apple was under way, way less pressure from consumers and investors to immediately deliver a monster hit. We’ve heard rumblings as recently as late May that Telefonica has signed a deal to deliver the Pre on its various networks around the world, but since then, nothing — and that’s where some scrappy little distributor in Romania comes into play. A company called IRIS — a smartphone distributor for years and Romania’s authorized Apple outlet — says that the Pre will be hitting shelves over there in September for something in the range of $550 unsubsidized, putting it right in range with what Sprint is charging off contract.

Telegraph.co.uk AT&T, Best Buy sell out of iPhone 3G S pre -order supplies Computerworld,

The main advantage that Palm has over Apple’s iPhone, is that they can and will be able to offer many different hardware flavours. Whereas Apple’s approach to a ‘nano’ device, which the Apple faithful have been clamouring for for years; was released this WWDC in the form of a cheaper iPhone, Palm will actually be able to offer different hardware configurations, particularly suited to each sector of the market. A few years ago, Palm released a device called the Centro – basically just a candybar form factor messaging oriented smartphone – and it was a huge success, so much so that it was second in terms of US internet mobile usage just last year, behind only the iPhone.

Lots of people are eagerly awaiting the release of the Palm Pre. Many people are going to ditch their iPhones and Blackberry’s for the elegant Pre.

Below are excerpts from an article I read a few days ago about why mobile developers should drop the iPhone and switch to the new Palm Pre…

Hey PreMadonna’s: There were rumors this week about the debut of the new Palm Pre the day before Apple’s keynote at WWDC in June.