The Palm Pre is a smart phone featuring a capacitive touch screen. The phone was out in the market on June 6 and runs on Linux based Web OS and is the first phone from Palm inc to feature this OS. It is loaded with all the features a multimedia phone can boast of. The phone also multiplies as multimedia player,a camera with 3 mega pixels, a GPS navigator and also as an internet client (Wi-Fi enabled).
The capacitive touch screen interface measures 3.1 inch diagonally over a 24-bit color 320 x 480 resolution and the display is HVGA liquid-crystal display. The phone also features a “gesture area” below the display with led illumination behind that allows additional touch commands. As all other palm phones the Palm Pre also sports a complete qwerty keyboard which slides downwards. the phone features three different sensors including an accelerometer which responds to the position of the phone, an ambient light sensor which adjusts the light automatically and a proximity sensor which disregards touch while the phone is held close to the face.
The phone features 8.0 GB of inbuilt memory and 256 MB of RAM. The phone is powered by a 600Mhz texas Instruments OMAP 3430. It was the frst phone to feature wireless charging. Additional memory enhancement is not supported.
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