I’m excited today. Actually, I was excited yesterday, but the excitement had to continue till I got a chance to write a post about it. And the reason I’m excited is that Palm are back with a phone that is seriously interesting: the Palm Pre, wireless charging, full face touch recognition. In fact, don’t listen to me, watch this:
ok, it has several nods to the iphone and a keyboard (which I consider a down side) but f*ck me this is sexy (and small) and will probably not be the restrictionware the iphone is (I still want one, but it is restricted too much, come on), especially from a company who up until recently have been pootling along the black line between existence and, well, non-existence.
I thought of this last night and thought of my Palm III I had back at university. I loved it, for a while. The main thing was the handwriting technology called graffitti. You had to learn a new way of writing, but it was simple and really quick to learn. Anyone with a stylus Palm back in the heady days should remember it, do you? Here is a reminder in any case.
Palm Graffiti Gestures
It felt like a community with its own handwriting. Anyway, I’m excited, especially about the wireless charging thing, but the future of mobiles is great (and we do have Apple to thank for that, iphone hater or not) and if the new HTC Android phone rumours are anything to go by, 2009 could be a real step forward.
