Finally, a new Palm device

Palm Pre: every­thing you ever wanted to know — Engadget

Finally, Palm comes out with a new device.  It looks rather promising.  I have always been imag­ining the perfect device that combines both a portrait-oriented QWERTY keyboard (I can’t stand the land­scape ones like that on the T-Mobile Dash) and a touch screen.  Now, the Palm Treo 750 had a great form factor, but its OS was dated, perfor­mance was slow and unre­sponsive, and the screen reso­lution was terrible.

I think this new Palm device does even better than the Treo.  With a slide-out full QWERTY (not like the Pearl…ugh), it allows for a far more expansive screen. I still like Apple’s design better: a simple slab.  But we will see.  After all, function over form I say.

I’m defi­nitely keeping my eye out for this one.  With GPS and 3G, its a strong contender for my dollars, up against the Black­Berry Bold.