A New Hope For Smartphones: Palm Pre Reviewed

The new Palm Pre comes from a company that’s been developing handheld gadgets since 1992, but the Pre owes almost nothing to that heritage. It has all the promise — and many of the limits and glitches — of a bright, young startup’s 1.0 release.That’s because much of the Palm, Inc., that we knew had to die for the Pre to be born.The Sunnyvale, Calif., firm was headed toward extinction not even three years ago, when its Treo smartphones had gone stale and its chief executive scoffed at the idea of Apple getting into the phone business.To read this review of the Palm Pre in The Washington Post, see:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061201164.html