CES: Palm Pre Hands-On with Boing Boing Gadgets, post-review huddle with Ars Technica

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Boing Boing Gadgets editors Joel and Brownlee got a hands-on demo with the new Palm Pre, and Boing Boing's video team was there to cover them. Watch the whole review above. In the first half of the video, Brownlee and Joel grill a Palm rep -- who doesn't want to let either of them touch the device -- about features and what's under the hood. In the second half of today's video, our fellas huddle over brews and watered-down show floor drinks with Jon Stokes from Ars Technica for a post-game analysis. Verdict seems to be that if this is Palm's "hail mary," it just might work. The Pre seems pretty sweet. More on the Pre at palm.com.

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[superlox3]

Another great report from CES!

[bronxboyXXX]

Lets get something strait you morons. Apple Copied Palm. The iPhones OS is Just like Palm OS. And if you can't see that you never owned a palm device in your life. It was palm who was first to market with a touch screen & multi media GPS & displaying album art. the fucking i phone still has not caught up! Stop over inflating that piece of shit phone that does not even record Video! their is so much you can't do and will never be able to do with the i-phone that it should!

[JeanBolden]

GET''‵A'◜`IPHONE,‵‵FREE.,,

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[bronxboyXXX]

What turned people off from Palm were three things. People wanted more memory, Wi-Fi & flash content & palm would not give it to them unless they used Windows mobile. Honestly, it was Palms own arrogance that was their downfall not the i-Phone as the Treo in many ways is still a superior device.

[Balastrea]

Yea I found this out actualy after a little more surfing the reviews. It's a bummer because on one of the videos I could have sworn that the Sprint/Palm rep said that it the charger came with it. From what I have seen so far they are going to be asking 69.99 for it which seems a bit steep. I would still like to have it however :-)

[Ben7seven7]

The Pre doesn't "come with" that "charging dock" as you call it.. which is the magnetic charging stone device. It is purchased separately.

[Balastrea]

Great review! I will be replacing my HTC Touch Pro for this bad boy. The Touch Pro has been ok but still very buggy and I like the idea of totally being finger friendly on the Prè. I also like the charging dock that the Prè comes with - Very kewl!