Palm Pre Live demonstration of additional features. "Bet the company" product.

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We met for more than an hour today with a Palm product manager responsible of the company's new smartphone the Pre. Then we received a live demonstration, shown here.

Palm assumed a substantial amount of debt as part of a private equity deal with Elevation partners, and paid out the majority of their cash as special dividend to shareholders. Then the company was battered with competition from Research in Motion and Apple.

Jon Rubenstein, formerly an Apple Executive, is Chairman of Palm and lead the design of the company's newest offering. In our opinion, the device is substantially more advanced than an iPhone, offering all of the iPhone's features plus a number of things Apple's phone cannot do, such as true multi-tasking and global search for contacts and apps. Also, there is likely to be substantial third party development for the Pre because programmers can write applications in JAVA Script, HTML and CSS, which are very common languages. They do not have to conform to the more challenging development environments of iPhone and Android.

There is also a first demonstration by Palm uploaded as another video.

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[groovdafied]

Oh man, talk about cornering her with a geeky tech question... She's just a demonstrator for christ sakes!

[jhoff80]

Yeah, you're clearly asking her a question which she has no idea the answer to.

Not to mention its been said a million times that the applications they're using are also mostly written in CSS, HTML, and Javascript and that its using WebKit to render that on top of a Linux core.

[everlast3000]

its always a good idea to get a manicure before doing a phone demo. thanks in advance.. cheers

[krakheadmon]

yea I was listening to whole thing in the bg while organizing my folders. and when i heard that i was like this guy sounds like a douche ... obviously she doesn't have the depth of knowledge when it comes to stuff like that but still he perused the question. Not cool at all brother.

[lookngood18]

the mount device doesnt come with it.

[lookngood18]

huge app store very similar and u can use apps from the old palm os

[lookngood18]

they dont know.... strange how they took it off the sprint website

[axelbender1]

Is it going to keep the work-as-modem function?

[biggjankeri]

Does this phone have a store like app store, or can we download programs just like with Iphone

[fredo69]

of course by usb.

[romanr120]

Can it charge the battery via mini usb also? Or will have have to use the mount device that comes with it?

[HEROxGAMBiTx]

go eat a dick u lil racist scumbag