Yes it is because you’ve just said non-sense. While it’s dangerous to make any such statements, I do believe that Palm has out-Appled Apple on this one: the iPhone already feels hopelessly kludgey and outdated. ![]() ![]() More on the side of Windows mobile than Android, but Android much more than the iPhone or the Pre. So it remains to be seen how the Palm’s card approach works for the user and how having many cards can affect the battery life.īut again, Apple has clearly designed the iPhone’s interface from the ground up for a portable devise, and i would say that Palm has taken the same way with its own ideas compared to other solutions like windows Mobile or Android which basically work a lot like the computer desktop. And the Pre does not give away the idea of windows anyway, as cards are composed of different windows, either your devise works as the Pre or it works like the iPhone where Apple has chosed by purpose (like Eugenia pointed out) the single task/app approach. I mean, come one, nothing besides the windows makes it behave fundamentally like a desktop environment. This is not true, the iPhone is far to be a phone designed with a desktop centric idea, this is actually the total opposite. To me, it seems as if Palm is the first smartphone manufacturer to develop an interface from the ground up specifically for a mobile device, without windows, applications, or other desktop-centric ideas. While it’s dangerous to make any such statements, I do believe that Palm has out-Appled Apple on this one: the iPhone already feels hopelessly kludgey and outdated.Īvailability is set for the first half of 2009. It follows the paradigm of a card deck: new cards enter the “hand” from underneath, and by flicking them to the top, they are closed.Īrs’ Jon Stokes had the opportunity to talk with Palm’s Pam Deziel, who showed off the device in this eight minute video (many thanks to Ars for allowing everyone to embed the video):Īrs Technica first hands-on with the Palm pré phone from Ars Technica on Vimeo. It’s the content that matters, not the medium.Ĭards can be switched in an alt-tab like implementation, and you can switch between cards in a coverflow-like fashion, or zoom out and see an overview. For instance, if you want to chat with a contact, you just open a chatcard with that user, and it will combine the communications over SMS and IM in a single conversation, moving away from the idea that you need the IM application to IM, and the SMS application to send text messages. Palm is changing all this with its card-based interface, where the application is irrelevant – it’s all about the task. The fact that smartphones today are all application-centric shows where their software comes from and where their roots lie: the desktop operating system. What is really intriguing though is the new interface, which takes everything that’s good about the iPhone, and brings it to a whole new level by doing away completely with the application-centric paradigm that the iPhone still employs. Yes, it’s Linux based, and no, it doesn’t run PalmOS 5.x applications. While the phone hardware itself is pretty ugly (at least, in my opinion) the real meat here is of course the brand new operating system, for which applications can be written using nothing but CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Palm’s announcement of its new WebOS and the accompanying pré model phone sure made its ripples across the pond that is the internet. One item that topped the headlines the past few days is Palm’s announcement of its brand new operating system. ![]() The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is filled to the brim with product announcements and new useful (and useless) gadgets, but some stand out more than others.
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