Palm Pre: Software

Now its time to talk about what is operating Palms new device. WebOS is the new operating system from Palm that is running their new device. There is a lot going on and being promised with this OS and if what they say and have demoed is true this OS is going to be pretty slick and on par with the iphones OS. One of the features I find most interesting is the deck of cards layout. In this layout all the apps you have open are easy to get to by flipping through them like a deck of cards. Another cool feature to this is that the cards are not screen shots, they are actually live and will rotate inside the card view if you flip the phone. When it comes to search Palm has made it very simple all you have to do is start typing. First it will check your phone for contacts or phone apps if it does not find anything there it will go to the internet for you to search google, google maps, or wiki. Palm is also trying to simplify getting all of your contact and calenders on the phone by using what they call synergy. Synergy pulls information from all of your online source such as gmail, facebook and your corporate catalog. It will put all these names in one list and take out duplicates which is very handy. The software is also going to be very developer friendly with all apps for the phone being built in web based code. This should make addoption very easy and Palm has already announced an app store for the new WebOS called the App Catalog. There is a lot more that I could cover here but I think I went over the basics. I can not wait to test out this new OS and the new hardware. If you are still interested in learning more or catching the CES video head over to Palm.com. Also did I mention it has multi-touch and a full html web browser!