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Palm Pre Now Available On O2 In The UK

The Palm Pre mobile phone is here. Out now on O2 and free on a pay monthly contract. Line rental is £35 per month with 600 minutes, 500 texts and unlimited data. Compare all Palm Pre Deals. The Palm Pre is an exciting touchscreen smartphone. This novel phone is certainly the something new that we’ve been waiting for. With its unique design, apparently inspired by nature, and special ergonomic curvature it makes it the perfect phone for that balance between work and play.

The Palm Pre is packed with all the connectivity options needed for a business phone including 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth with A2DP for stereo wireless multimedia. Running on the Linux-based, Palm webOS, the multifunctional touch screen allows you to run several applications on the phone simultaneously. As well as a touch screen the Palm pre has a very good slide out QWERTY keyboard, which is great for messaging and email.

With 8GB of on board memory allows storage of music, movies and of course images and videos captured by the 3 megapixel camera. The Palm Pre phone comes complete with an accelerometer so the view on the screen turns with the phone, without having to press any buttons. With this phone Palm has decided to use a completely new OS called, which is quite different from others on the market, providing a unique way of accessing the internet. The Pre is very different from anything previously released by Palm. In every way it is a desirable phone which will draw attention in any arena.

After falling way behind in the mobile phone development race Palm have invested a lot of money and time in getting this new phone right. Since the Palm Pre has been released in the US, it has sold more than a million handsets – which is pretty impressive. There have been a number of phones which have come with the iPhone Killer tag – which have not stacked up (Google G1 & Blackberry Storm). But, with the Palm Pre we could now have a phone that has a real fighting chance.