I think I want a Palm Pre
Wow - I think I want one.
http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/
Electro Magnetic Induction charging - seriously cool!
Natively multitasking OS which feels responsive and is heavily data focused.
Decent camera!
Real QWERTY keyboard (no virtual keyboards!
Actual GPS (not a hobbled one)
None of those irritating things like not being able to add a photo to an email after you've started the email.
Actual integration of multiple web-based data sources (including getting address book information from GMail, Facebook, etc. as well as your own address book - this is the most valuable feature I can think of - I'll be able to keep up with people's new address/phone details, etc.)
Depending on whether people develop for it in the same way that they develop for iPhone, I could find myself getting one of these! A real QWERTY keyboard, fast and much less clunky than an iPhone. A freely available SDK as well as an App Store system might be what this phone needs to kickstart a development community. And if it takes off, we finally might get a real GPS with turn-by-turn maps, which is one of the biggest things that I dislike about the iPhone (why no turn-by-turn maps on the iPhone? There's no reason they can't do this.)
A pity it's not going to be available in Australia anytime soon. I can't wait for a 3G version to be available here. I'll be buying one outright, I'm sure. I've missed not having a Palm device, and will be so glad to be back on one for everything.
http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/
Depending on whether people develop for it in the same way that they develop for iPhone, I could find myself getting one of these! A real QWERTY keyboard, fast and much less clunky than an iPhone. A freely available SDK as well as an App Store system might be what this phone needs to kickstart a development community. And if it takes off, we finally might get a real GPS with turn-by-turn maps, which is one of the biggest things that I dislike about the iPhone (why no turn-by-turn maps on the iPhone? There's no reason they can't do this.)
A pity it's not going to be available in Australia anytime soon. I can't wait for a 3G version to be available here. I'll be buying one outright, I'm sure. I've missed not having a Palm device, and will be so glad to be back on one for everything.