{"id":1691,"date":"2009-01-08T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/not-your-fathers-palm-impressions-of-the-palm-pre\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T21:05:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T21:05:26","slug":"not-your-fathers-palm-impressions-of-the-palm-pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/not-your-fathers-palm-impressions-of-the-palm-pre\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Father’s Palm – Impressions of the Palm Pre"},"content":{"rendered":"

So at CES today, Palm unveiled their new phone<\/a>, the Palm Pre<\/a>. This is a tough time for Palm, they\u2019ve not had luck with their recent devices and software. The assumption is that this device had to hit it out of the park for Palm to survive the recession.<\/p>\n

Form the initial looks, I think it\u2019s going to struggle. There\u2019s nothing especially new in the smartphone space here. The screen is 320×480 in portrait mode; it\u2019s running on EV-DO for data 9so it\u2019s effectively US only), it has a multi-touch screen that has support for \u2018gestures\u2019; a Qwerty keyboard slides out the bottom; GPS and accelerometers; 8gb storage\u2026<\/p>\n

If the game was to produce something new, Palm failed. If they planned to match devices like the iPhone the Nokia 5800, and the HTC touch, then they equalled their expectations. Nothing here was actually new<\/em> to the smartphone world \u2013 just new from Palm. Given the timescale since their last phone that did something different, pretty much anything modern on the Pre would be seen as a bold new step for Palm.<\/p>\n

Ed Colligan and the presentation team spent a lot of time in the one hour session at the Venetian in Las Vegas talking about the history of Palm before introducing the device. That\u2019s worrying, because with a new device you want to spend time looking forward. Perhaps Colligan wanted to reach back to Palm\u2019s initial DNA to position this device\u2026 but the market is not going to measure this against how revolutionary the Pilot 1000 was for it\u2019s day, but against the current devices.<\/p>\n

Spec wise the Palm Pre is middle of the road when compared to other similar devices. It has some nice UI features that were presented well<\/a> (there\u2019s a surprise), but from what I\u2019m seeing online, in snap judgements people are saying Palm were great, so this must be them back<\/a>. That may prove true eventually, but past performance is no guide to future success.<\/p>\n

The big test will come when it reaches the public. Via Sprint. Which is not going doing well with the US bloggers. let\u2019s just hope that Palm actually ship this one out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So at CES today, Palm unveiled their new phone, the Palm Pre. This is a tough time for Palm, they\u2019ve not had luck with their recent devices and software. The assumption is that this device had to hit it out of the park for Palm to survive the recession. Form the initial looks, I think it\u2019s going to struggle. There\u2019s nothing especially new in the smartphone space here. The screen is 320×480 in portrait mode; it\u2019s running on EV-DO for data 9so it\u2019s effectively US only), it has a multi-touch screen that has support for \u2018gestures\u2019; a Qwerty keyboard slides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[631,112],"tags":[636,638,637,192,102,633,632,635,634],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palm-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-web-20-news","tag-blackberry","tag-copycat","tag-htc-touch","tag-iphone","tag-palm","tag-palmos","tag-pre","tag-storm","tag-webos","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}