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After you see the Bell Meet my Palm Pre on commercials video, what do you want? Bell Mobile wrote “Voted best mobile phone at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, the Palm Pre is available exclusively from Bell.”

Canadian people may enjoy Palm Pre official arrive at Bell Mobile, even more they have ready to ships. The Bell exclusive, very proud gives spirit marks the first international launch of Palm’s, Canadian townie very enthusiastic to see the smartphone. See more on commercials video.

Apple’s just move to squash the iTunes function could turn off some people looking to buy the Pre, one of the most compelling features on Palm Inc.’s rival Palm Pre’sPre smartphone, crippling the Pre’s ability to act like an iPod, since they might have considered the device as a way to consolidate their music player and mobile phone.

Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said “disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre.” a unique twist for a device not made by Apple. But Apple updated iTunes on Wednesday to block this feature, which Palm user able to put the music on the Pre by using Apple’s free iTunes software.

Palm spokeswoman Leslie Letts said Apple’s move is a “direct blow to their users, who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience.” Meant for a workaround phone and Pre owners can join to the older version of iTunes, move music from laptop computers to a Pre with a USB cable or consider third-party music applications.

Apple’s iTunes software is the example of tensions brewing flanked by Apple and Palm, which since June has been led by the former executive behind the iPod, Jon Rubinstein. He became to Palm’s executive chairman in October 2007, while the Pre smartphone came includes a “multi-touch” screen like Apple’s iPhone, letting users do things like pinch photos to zoom in and out. Apple was granted a patent in January related to certain multi-touch functions.

America’s gadget group Palm will provide confirmation next week that it has signed an agreement with Britain’s O2 in which the British mobile phone network will become the exclusive partner for its long-awaited Palm Pre handset.

The Pre, which began to be sold in the United States last month, has been listed as the most feasible alternative and produced to the iPhone. The new version of the Apple device, iPhone 3GS, began to be sold within less than two weeks ago and a million were snapped up in the first three days.

O2 has an exclusive deal with Apple to stock the iPhone and grasping the Palm Pre is likely to further cement its position as the Birtain’s largest mobile phone network. Reports of a cooperation between Palm and O2 first appeared in May and Carphone Warehouse is also expected to stock the Pre.

It is believed that O2 has seen off fierce competition for the device from Orange, which it also beat to the iPhone at the last minute.

Analysts estimate that Palm has already sold more than 300,000 Pre devices in the US alone and the handset has a crucial role to play in reviving the company’s flagging fortunes.

After leading the handheld computer market in the 1990s with the Palm Pilot, the company’s move into the mobile phone business was scuppered by the arrival of the iPhone.

In the beginning of this year, Palm said that launching a hit device was the vital first step on the road to recovery. Palm has been fighting the battle with basically both hands tied behind its back for the past year and half. Now Palm is getting on the playing field, and it is going to be extremely competitive.

The Apple device sent many handset manufacturers back to the drawing board when it appeared two years ago. Since then a series of similar touchscreen devices have appeared, from the Nokia 5800 and Sony’s X-Series Walkman to the HTC Magic and T-Mobile’s G1. Business email device manufacturer RIM, meanwhile, has pushed hard into the consumer market with the Blackberry Storm.

The Palm Pre has received positive reviews since it launched in the US under an exclusive deal with Sprint. Its touchscreen has been compared favourably with that on the iPhone, while the Pre also has a full slide-out keyboard, making emails easier to type than on the Apple device.

Anyway, for many users the most striking difference between the iPhone and the Pre is the way in which the latter device charges, rather than being plugged in, it merely has to be placed on what Palm calls its “Touchstone” and charges through magnetic induction.

Palm said  the company’s Palm App Catalog hit a million downloads since owners of its new Pre smartphone are eager to attain applications though the company may be slow in improving the digital offerings in its mobile application store.

By estimate, Palm has shipped around 150,000 Pre devices since the smartphone went on sale June 6, which is equal to an average of six or more applications downloaded per device. The number is rather impressive, considering that currently there are about 30 applications, all free, currently available through Palm’s platform.

Still, the limited possibilities could be a trouble because Sprint users are hungry for smartphones and applications, but chances are they have all probably downloaded the same kinds of apps, so the question is, are they satisfied with what they have and what is there further than those offerings?

It has been often said that, these days, the new fresh aspect for smartphones are the apps. Palm has taken the primary steps towards remedying the bare shelves of its application store. Last week, the company announced it would begin opening its software development kit, the min set of tools needed to write apps, to more of the thousands of developers enthusiastic to write programs for the Pre.

Buying smartphones has now turned more problematical unlike it was two years ago, because there are many competing devices in the market.

Although BlackBerrys were easier to type on than iPhones, they were tough to customize since there was no BlackBerry application store, while Palm’s new Pre is very close to the iPhone’s, at least until the iPhone’s newest version is rolled out on June 19.

Palm’s new Pre looks like a great option with price of US$200 from Sprint after rebate, while Verizon likely to follow by year’s end. The keys, while small, still allow for easy typing, and of the plans offered by the major carriers, Sprint’s Simply Everything is the cheapest all-you-can-eat offering, for about US$100 a month.

A BlackBerry Curve (ranging from about $50 to $150 from most carriers), will also perform nicely, as will T-Mobile’s G1 ($180) and the new Sidekick LX ($250).

It is worth noting that the G1 has an app store right on the phone, while the Sidekick does not. An easy connection to Apple’s App Store, Android’s Market or BlackBerry’s App World means the device can evolve with the user’s needs.

So the big question today is Palm Pre or iPhone? There are many features of the Pre, like the slide-out keyboard and the fact that, unlike the iPhone, it can run more than one application at a time. But there are simply too many good apps on the iPhone.

We can search a business or restaurant and the smartphone will give us all in the area, then transfer us over to the map app to give us detailed directions from my current location.

Palm has launched a new Palm Pre, a well-designed, blissful and multitouch smartphone, which is likely to become a strong competitor to iPhone.

The new Pre has the usual features like Wi-Fi, GPS, 3G (high-speed Internet), Bluetooth (including wireless audio), good camera with tiny flash, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, tilt sensor, standard headphone jack, 3.1-inch touch screen (the same 320 x 480 pixels as the iPhone, packed into less space).

It comes in a gleaming, flattened black plastic capsule, coated with a hard, glossy, scratch-resistant finish. When it’s turned off, the screen disappears completely into the smoky finish, leaving a stunning, featureless talisman. It is just the right size. The size is smaller than the iPhone - half an inch shorter, though a quarter-inch thicker - and hence more comfortable as a phone.

But unlike the iPhone, the Pre has a real keyboard. The screen slides up, revealing four rows of Thumbelina-size keys. They’re really tiny; a BlackBerry’s keyboard is Texas by comparison. Even so, the domed key shapes and sticky rubber key surfaces make it faster and less frustrating than typing on glass.

When we want to make a call on the Pre, we can just pop open the keyboard and start dialing, or just start typing - matches from your address book come up immediately, or set up speed-dial keys. Call audio quality is about average, but the ringer is too quiet so expectedly there will be complaints about it.

The Pre’s all-new operating system, called Web OS, is eye-catching, fluid and exciting. It borrows plenty from the iPhone - pinch or spread two fingers on the screen to zoom in or out, for example, or flick a list item sideways to delete it - but has its own personality.

Palm Inc said it will launch its Pre smart phone in the next few days, which is expected to challenge Apple Inc’s iPhone as it will have new features like a media manager that is capable to download music directly from Apple’s iTunes.

Besides, the Pre smart phone will feature an Internet-based store like Apple’s iPhone App Store, where software can be downloaded onto the phone.

Palm and another smart phone maker Sprint will begin to sell their highly-anticipated Pre smart phone on June 6 as the two companies look for a hit device to reverse customer defections.

The touch-screen model was introduced by Palm to great fanfare in January. Billed as a competitor to Apple iPhone and the latest BlackBerrys, the Pre will cost $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a two-year Sprint contract
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Sprint, which has lost more than six million subscribers in the last six quarters, hopes the Pre will act as a strong retention tool for its wireless customers. Palm, of Sunnyvale, California, hoped that the device’s new webOS software will help it regain market share.

The Pre, which has a slide-out keyboard, includes features new to mobile devices such as the ability to open several screens or programs simultaneously. It will initially work only on Sprint’s network.

But the Pre faces stiff competition. Some analysts say Apple’s next iPhone could surface as soon as a June 8 event the company is hosting for developers.

Sprint reportedly will start to sell its new advanced phone, Palm Pre, in the first week of June, after suffering dearly earlier in the decade for it focused on customers who are not really creditworthy.

To recover from the suffering, the company once struggled to integrate Nextel, a business-centric wireless carrier, with its more populist and mass-market promotional efforts.

Now the question is, could the Palm Pre be the device that brings lasting harmony to Sprint? Generally, the makers of a new generation of advanced phones - from the iPhone to those based on Google’s Android operating system - have characterized them as potentially satisfying both corporate users who have heavy data demands and consumers with growing demands for mobile media.

It seems natural for the company to make such an assertion, and to be sure, Sprint had some well-received phones in recent years, notably the Instinct, which was introduced last summer. But Sprint has particularly high hopes for the Pre.