Palm Pre: the first smartphone in WebOS
Palm Pre: the first smartphone in WebOS – The new operating system launched by Palm Inc. to take over the aging Palm OS, and who has served the company for two years, is finally unveiled at the CES 2009 under the evocative name of WebOS.
Because, as already suggested Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, it is not just a platform for smartphones, but an enabling environment for the circulation of personal data between different devices.
To achieve this, WebOS uses technologies such as CSS, XHTML or JavaScript while the interface of mobile terminals has been designed to facilitate access to and use of data. The choice of these technologies, well-known developers, should also facilitate their work and reduce development time of applications and services while maintaining an opening for many products.
And for the launch of WebOS, Palm unveiled the first smartphone using it, the smartphone Palm Pre, which will be launched first on the network of the U.S. operator Sprint. Breaking with the form factor of Palm Treo smartphones, the new terminal has a large touch screen 3.1 “covering nearly all of its front and has a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels.
But it is also equipped with a sliding keyboard that appears on the screen, including the opening produces a slight curvature of the entire device. In front, there is also a trackball system and an area dedicated to hand touch. Dimensions of 100.5 x 59.5 x 16.95 mm for 135 grams, the Palm Pré is rather compact and embeds a 3 megapixel camera on the back.
