Written off for dead by many, Palm came roaring back at CES with the Pre — a smartphone that combines the best features of BlackBerry and the iPhone, and which adds a dose of its own innovations. The phone looks similar to the iPhone, with a full touch-screen, but is a little more rounded.
Its biggest physical difference is the full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, which addresses the main complaint about Apple’s device — the difficulty of typing on a touchscreen. The Pre thus adds one of the best things about most BlackBerrys — the ease of typing — to an iPhone-inspired touch screen.
Like the iPhone, the Pre features multi-touch and an accelerometer, so photos and videos switch between horizontal and vertical view when the phone is turned.
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The Pre goes a step further with its touch capability, however. The area just below the touch screen, which would normally be considered dead space on most phones, is actually a gesture pad that allows the user to navigate menus and programs on the phone without touching the screen.
The gesture pad comes in handy for the phone’s “Card” display system, which is similar to how windows are shown on a computer desktop. Each application that is running, whether it’s the MP3 player or web browser, is displayed as a Card on the screen, and it can be rearranged just like windows on a computer.
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