Hands-on HP Palm Pre 3 with webOS 2.1 – demo from San Francisco
Google Nexus S Hands-on
With less than a year under its belt, the Google Nexus One has enabled itself to continue being relevant in the mobile landscape while other top notched devices have been announced and released. Even though many devices emulated its high end specifications, the Nexus One undoubtedly became the choice of handset for developers seeing that it quickly received the latest and greatest Android updates. However, it appears that the torch is being passed on as Samsung received the prestigious opportunity of being the manufacturer of choice to build the second ever Google branded device. And instead of following the sales model employed with the Nexus One, the Google Nexus S trudges an alternate path as the device is being sold through Best Buy Stores across the country. Some of its features include a 4″ Super AMOLED display with WVGA resolution, 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor, 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash, 16GB of internal storage, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, NFC support, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. www.phonearena.com
Palm Pre 2 Hands-on
With almost a year and a half under its belt, the once fresh and relevant Palm Pre is clearly beginning to show off its age as we’ve seen it slowly becoming more of a distant memory than anything else. Happily, HP Palm recently unveiled their followup successor with the Palm Pre 2 which has some notable improvements under the hood with its updated webOS platform. www.phonearena.com
HP Palm Pre 2 for Verizon and webOS 2.0 Hands-on
Palm Pre 2 hands-on. Gigahertz CPU, 5mp camera, gorilla glass, qwerty keyboard
I asked Tim Pettitt, product manager for HP Palm, to show an overview of the Palm Pre 2. It runs webOS 2.0, the most significant update to the platform since its launch in 2009. Tim shows off the hardware and then goes into more details about webOS 2.0. More photos at mgu.im The Pre 2 is the first Palm phone with a gigahertz processor and features a 5-megapixel camera, a gorilla glass screen and a sleeker, streamlined design that still gives users the ideal combination of a vivid touchscreen and a slide-out keyboard. Tim also pointed out they’ve added better tactile feedback on the new keyboard, and gorilla glass for scratch resistant display. The next generation of webOS has plenty of updates but here are some of the more noticeable features. Stacks – logically groups together your open apps so they work the way you do. Stacks keeps related items together so managing multiple tasks is even easier. Just Type – Whenever you want to do something on your phone – whether it’s emailing, texting, searching or almost anything – just type! is open to developers, so they can integrate with the search function and add their own user-customizable shortcuts, called Quick Actions. Flash Player 10.1 Beta – webOS now supports a beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 in the browser, which provides access to rich, Flash based web content. Palm Pre 2 featuring webOS 2.0 is already available in France from SFR and is scheduled to be available in the coming months in the United States from Verizon …