When Apple introduced their Iphone last year I am sure they thought they had quelled all potential competition.  The success of the Palm Pre at the CES this year must have put them on their heels.   Is the Pre an Iphone killer, only time will tell.  Palm must not only overcome their own track record of being slow on the uptake but also respond to the requests of their new clientele.  

I have been following the conversations going on over at facebook and palm representatives Matt Crowley and Adam Kaufman are getting quite a work over.  If the company responds to their market the Pre may become wildly successful, if they ignore them Palm may continue down the path they were on.

What we know so far is that the Pre will only have 8 gigs of built in memory and no ability to add an sd card in the initial model.  In response to queries the company has said that more memory is not necessary because the unit is always connected and can be backed up from it’s connection.  Well maybe, but what about power users or picture fanatics who want to carry several gigs of media about? There have also been horror stories about crashes and data loss with no ability to back up without an SD type of backup.  

On the bright side the folks at PalmPreCentral pointed me in the direction of the "Pre Dev Camp" to be held one week after the release of the Pre..

"preDevCamp is an upcoming not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for Palm Pre using both the Mojo SDK and traditional web standards. The event is currently being planned in over 60 cities around the world."  You can find out more here.  Basically several software developers will meet in several cities around the globe and make plans to develop third party add-on software for the new Pre "Web OS".

The Pre with its ability to be always connected, sync with several sources simultaneously, hold several applications open at the same time, just a finger or thumb motion away is a clear challenge to the Iphone. Once again time will tell.

The Stunning Features of iPhone

Tired of the bottlenecks of your existing cell phones? Want a revolutionary replacement to your everyday cell phone application? Read this article.

iPhone is the latest technology revolution introduced by Apple, a name that has already redefined portable digital music players and offered its consumers the musical privilege of a lifetime.

Essentially, iPhone is a stunning combination cell phone, iPod and handheld-internet computer. Although it is a prospective threat to the existing cell phone manufacturers, it is still in the process being introduced to the niche cell phone markets throughout the world.

Why iPhone?

Many would wonder why there is a market for iPhones when the exciting cell phones offer and meet almost every kind of application the consumers could look for. Actually, the advantages of using an iPhone are quite a few. To begin with, it can be used exclusively as a cell phone, or an iPod, or even a mini-internet computer. Offering seamless performance, it mocks at the drawbacks of the existing cell phones.

Virtual Keypad:

Using the various features and applications of the traditional cell phones, which require the users to punch a bunch of tiny buttons and navigate through the menus and features, to be able to use specific applications such as music, text message, web browsing, photos, videos and so forth. iPhone supercedes this particular disadvantage by replacing hardware with software application.

For instance, it will serve you with a virtual keypad on the screen when you need to dial a number. Similarly, when you require other buttons to use specific applications, the screen will show you the buttons accordingly. Moreover, interestingly, when you want to watch a video, the buttons on your iPhone screen will automatically disappear. It is flexible and user-friendly.

One-touch Magic:

The stunning technology of the new iPhone surprise its users delightfully. While the traditional cell phones demand you to navigate painstakingly from one feature to another or punch the buttons on their keypad, the iPhone will require you to simply touch the screen for using a particular application. For instance, you receive an incoming call from a person while you are already on another call- with the traditional cell phones, you have to punch a specific button to put the existing caller on hold to take the second call.

Under the given circumstance, the iPhone users can simply touch an apple icon flashed on the device screen from the second call in order to replace the second caller with the first one. Moreover, you can also touch on the merged calls option flashed instantly on your iPhone screen if you want to have three-way conference call.

Sensible Voicemail Option:

Most of the traditional cell phones users would have to grope through their voicemail by ear in order to listen to a particular voicemail recorded in their cell phones. The iPhone has blended technology with sensibility to offer an easier option to listen to your voicemails. It shows you all your voicemails visually onscreen, labeled by the callers. All you have to do is touch one of the names you want to hear from.

Tireless Text Messaging:

The traditional cell phones require you to ramble through the jumble of message box to choose your option. Again, you will have to painstakingly punch the button four times to type a particular digit on your screen while you write a number on you message. The easy-to-use iPhone does away with this disadvantage by offering you a virtual keyboard to type on, making text messaging smooth, seamless and fun.

Web Browser:

The users of iPhone can experience a difference while browse through the Internet on their devices as this new-age gadget offers a modified version of Safari to display actual webpages you could see on you computer, and not the crunched-down versions of the web that your traditional cell phone would serve you.

These are some of the exciting reasons why you would want replace your existing cell phones with the new iPhone developed on the cutting-edge technology to offer you brand-new feel while you are using it.

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