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Palm is back in the game!

Palm has unveiled the latest smartphone that it will launch in the first half of 2009, the Palm Pre. It will be available initially with Sprint but the release date was not yet announced.

The new phone was introduced last Thursday, January 8 at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

It featured the new operating system, Palm webOS. This is a new OS built by Palm to fully support internet connectivity and the applications are inter-related.

The specification of the Palm Pre will kept you on the edge. Listed below are what you gonna be getting with this phone:

• High-speed wireless (EV-DO Rev. A or HSDPA, depending on version)
• 802.11b / g WiFi
• Integrated GPS
• 3.1-inch 24-bit color 480 x 320 display
• Dedicated gesture area below display
• Slide-out portrait QWERTY keyboard
• Exchange email support in addition to POP and IMAP
• IM, MMS, and SMS messaging
• High-performance browser
• 3-megapixel camera with LED flash and “extended depth of field”
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP
• 8GB of internal storage
• USB mass storage mode
• MicroUSB connectivity with USB 2.0
• Proximity sensor for detecting when phone is near face
• Light sensor to automatically dim display
• Ringer mute switch
• Removable rechargeable battery
• 59.57 x 100.53 x 16.95mm closed
• 4.76 ounces

As much as I would like to get my hands on this, but there are still no announcement if a GSM version will be released in the near feature.

As the name implies, this is a prelude for bigger things to come from Palm! There is so much to write about this new smartphone from Palm and I couldn’t explain more. Just check out their website for update and information.