I ‘ve been following the live blogging of the Palm CES event today – via Engadget and everythingtreo “ and also checking out some of the early reactions on Twitter and Friendfeed to the new Palm ‘Pre ‘ phone. I ‘ve seen a lot of positive stuff so far, and I have to admit some of the UI ‘s features look and sound pretty good.
Here ‘s a few of the reactions that caught my eye so far:
He presses the center button and all the apps zoom out to a scrollable set of smaller windows, like tabs in iPhone safari. “ Engadget live blog
Quick launch from anywhere, it brings up a launcher “wave” across the screen. This is pretty impressive stuff. – Engadget live blog
very iPhone esque. Launcher comes up over any application without leaving it. – Engadget live blog
Now showing off a swipe up to show a launcher with apps. Smart! Photos slides open, really really tight UI design here. – Engadget live blog
New Palm phone has best social networking features “ Robert Scoble, via Twitter
Oh Palm is freaking killing it right now. Sorry Storm, sorry G1, et al. The Palm pre is the first true iPhone competitor. – Andru Edwards of Gear Live
One more from Ryan Block at gdgt.com: Wow. Well, that was kind of amazing, and I don ‘t say that very often. Yes, we are lacking a LOT of really important details, but there ‘s little doubt that Palm is back in a big way, and that this OS and device has the potential to make up for all their missteps over the last five years.
If you ‘re an iPhone user, you ‘ve gotta feel a touch of envy over those abilities to invoke an app launcher easily, and it seems to allow plenty of ‘running in the background ‘ stuff “ popup messages while you ‘re in other apps, as another example.
Universal search and that wireless charger sound very cool as well.
Just also noticed on everythingtreo ‘s coverage this line:
Pandora took three days to bring their app to the Pre
That will probably be where we see if the Pre / new Palm OS can really show some momentum “ in the level of developer support they get, and the number of (non farting) apps that get developed for it.
Looks-wise, I ‘m not that keen on the hardware “ but UI looks slick from what I can tell via the live blogs.
I think I agree with Andru “ this might be the first phone to give the iPhone some real competition. I ‘m not saying the Pre looks better than the iPhone, of course, but it looks like they might just have given Apple some things to think about. Maybe even to encourage Apple to work a little harder to give us some nicer ways to work with apps.
What do you all think so far?
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