Palm has just released its long awaited handset, the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen handset has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display with a silver center button down below and touch sensitivity all down the face. A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the phone in a portrait direction and you can flip the phone on its side for accelerometer-sensed widescreen browsing. The phone is running on Palm's webOS platform with TI's new OMAP CPU under the hood, which Palm claims to provide laptop-style power. Other specs include EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP and 8GB of built-in flash storage. There is also a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, mass storage-friendly microUSB plug and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The most exciting part is the wireless charger, a first for a mainstream phone.
