Flashback: Palm Pre showed us the way to the future then faded to obscurity
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- AnonD-1046991
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- 18 Jun 2022
Anonymous, 20 Apr 2020Don't know that I would say it was better than symbianAre you sure about that!?
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- Anonymous
- iUk
- 15 Mar 2021
Anonymous, 19 Jan 2021Still Have mine sitting right here next to my desk. along w... moreDo you know if you can still connect a palm pre to a phone carrier in the US. I still have mine and would love to be able to use it as a regular phone.
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- Anonymous
- YgL
- 19 Jan 2021
Still Have mine sitting right here next to my desk. along with the hp pad. this was the closest anybody ever came to "the Iphone Killer" I installed Android on the hp pad when Cyngomod was supporting but never on the pre.
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- 6u%
- 23 Apr 2020
ive always wanted this phone and the pixi as well, both so beautiful and cool. i remember asking one of my friends that had it, to lend it to me just to touch it hahah could come out today and id buy it
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- Big waste
- N0h
- 23 Apr 2020
many pioneers disappeared after making a leading concept similar to nowadays common gadgets like Sony, Palm, HP, iMate and HTC which still kicking after they were leading this concept by real smart designs running on windows mobile OS which unfortunately took it all down
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- Anonymous
- 81X
- 21 Apr 2020
Kingslayer, 19 Apr 2020Exactly.
The guys who worked on webOS, Matias Duarte, mo... moreSo many commentards on here encounter a handful of uneducated fanboys, then take the widest brush on Earth to paint all Apple users with it.
Anyway, AFAIK iPhone's Safari used swipeable cards for tabs, and Springboard (iOS's launcher) supported swiping between homescreens on day 1.
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- Anonymous
- 81X
- 21 Apr 2020
I wanted a WebOS Palm so badly back in the day. They were exclusively on Bell Canada, in the CDMA/1X era. Bell always had(/has) a horrible reputation for customer service, and carriers made switching handsets to another network hellish, so I was never able to. When HP firesold the TouchPad I managed to get one of the last 32GB units; it was a great device. I was sad when it died.
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- Adul Al Salami Kebab
- pcL
- 21 Apr 2020
Far ahead of its time, RIP little buddy we will all miss ya! :(
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- SizN80
- fjc
- 20 Apr 2020
Trollhammeren, 20 Apr 2020We are talking about 2009 ... be happy that you got copy &a... moreYou called video recording revolutionary, not me.
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- Anonymous
- I8m
- 20 Apr 2020
Don't know that I would say it was better than symbian
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- Anonymous
- js}
- 20 Apr 2020
I had the Palm Pixi. It was the Pre but in a true candybar format. Less moving parts, less that can break. Loved that phone.
I moved on. Gestures on iOS 13 are great. Can't believe it's been over 10 years.
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- Trollhammeren
- 0Uu
- 20 Apr 2020
SizN80, 20 Apr 2020iOS has had gestures support since iOS 4.3 in 2011 with iPa... moreWe are talking about 2009 ... be happy that you got copy & paste that year ... oh and a revolutionary features called video recording was also "invented" by crApple that year...
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Apr 2020
Doctor Bolus, 19 Apr 2020Don’t get these revisionist pieces. The Pre was way too lat... moreActually webOS, Meego and BB10 were first gesture based mobile OSes long before iOS and Android
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- Vendhar
- bJb
- 20 Apr 2020
Like HTC said in recent times, it is right to be wrong and it is wrong to be right. All depends on the timing.
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- jerem06
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- 20 Apr 2020
SizN80, 20 Apr 2020iOS has had gestures support since iOS 4.3 in 2011 with iPa... moreWebOS : 2009...
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- SizN80
- fjc
- 20 Apr 2020
Kingslayer, 19 Apr 2020Exactly.
The guys who worked on webOS, Matias Duarte, mo... moreiOS has had gestures support since iOS 4.3 in 2011 with iPads getting multitouch gestures and evolving them from there and also bringing them to iPhone later.
Rather stick to to talking about Android.
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- Nemelo
- qpy
- 20 Apr 2020
Headline should say: Palm Pre showed us the way to the future, but WE WERE NOT READY.