The Palm Pre 2 just got official, complete with webOS 2.0 and a more refined design. Come check it out here in our gallery as we run through everything it’s packing.
If you were hoping for a full touch HP/Palm webOS smartphone, the Palm Pre 2 is not it. But that’s by no means a bad thing: we loved the original Pre, and a more polished, powerful update is fine by us. This time round it’s sporting a five megapixel camera and 1GHz CPU, though the screen stays at a now slightly dated 3.1-inch 480×320 resolution. The slide out portrait QWERTY remains in place.
But the Palm Pre 2′s software is the star of the show here. It’s running the all new webOS 2.0 we heard whispers about a few weeks ago, and it sounds very promising indeed. Just Type is the new name of universal search through the Palm Pre 2′s keyboard, and developers can plug into this so you can search through apps too.
Multitasking now puts related cards up together, so all your websites are in a stack in card view, while developers can have Synergy accounts plug data into their own apps. The biggy on the front end though is that webOS 2.0 on the Palm Pre 2 brings Flash 10.1 support for streaming video, just like Android 2.2.
We can’t wait to try it out, but there is one hitch. The Palm Pre 2 is only out in France on 22 October, with a North America launch in the next few months. When contacted, a spokesperson for Palm UK wouldn’t comment on whether it would be released here. Fingers crossed we don’t have a protracted wait for the Palm Pre 2 like we did the first one.
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