Palm Pre smartphone with new webOS announced

CES 2009 - Maybe the biggest surprise at the 2009 CES is the announcement made by Palm. After the failed attempt to launch a laptop companion thing for your smartphone (yes, the Foleo), Palm attempts to get back into the game with their newly announced smartphone called the Palm Pre.
Likey any other phone announced in the last year or so, it highly resembles the iPhone design, except that unlike the iPhone, its 3.1-inch (480x320 pixel) touchscreen slides up to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. It is also ergonomically curved, just like the Sony Ericsson Xperia to give you extra comfort while writing.






Other features include a 3 megapixel camera with LED Flash, micro USB, 3.5mm headphone jack, EVDO, WiFi, 8GB of internal storage, GPS, Bluetooth and the feature I've been craving for a very long time, a wireless charger! Awesome.
The Palm Pre runs on a newly created platform called webOS, an operating system designed to be used with a touchscreen-baed graphical UI. It comes equipped with a number of apps and it uses technologies such as XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, so that's all you need in order to created applications for this device. The Pre will be the first smartphone to use the webOS.
The Palm Pre will be launched in the first half of 2009 on the Sprint network. Pricing was not revealed, but don't expect this thing to be cheap.