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Watch Out Apple: Palm Pre is Here!!

Good Great news for Palm fanatics like me: Palm Pre is here; watch out Apple iPhone.

At the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas Thursday, Palm (the company formerly known as Palm Computing, which is formerly known as PalmOne, and was formerly known as Palm) unveiled the world’s first device to run on the Palm webOS™: the Palm Pre. The new mobile phone sports a 3.1″ touch screen, is 3G enabled, has 802.11b/g WiFi, built-in GPS, ambient light sensor, accelerometer, proximity sensor, Bluetooth, 8GB internal storage, and the thing that Apple people missed in the iPhone: a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

It will be released soon, and no pricing information yet as of the moment. The only down side, as of this writing, is that when released, it will be in CDMA only. Wonder when will the GSM version will come out? Can’t wait for this piece of technology to land on Philippine shores (perhaps, when that time comes, I will ready to retire my 5-year old PalmOne Treo 600).

Nonetheless, this is a very bold indicator that Palm (the company, the platform, the device, the company who started it all) is very much alive and is ready to reclaim it’s turf in the mobile and smart phone markets.

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Apple to Launch 3G iPhone: Still Waiting for 22G iPhone in Manila

In twelve hours’ time, there will be a confirmation whether Steve Jobs will be (or will not be) unveiling the 3G version of the Apple iPhone at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2008). Rumors about the 3G iPhone had been circulating in the web since last week.

We, here at Manila, Philippines are still waiting on Globe Telecoms to announce when will be the 2G iPhone available to local consumers. Paging Apple: Can’t you do something like Microsoft always does? Synchronized launch of products worldwide?