Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:23 pm
Palm said its Pre smartphone will be available on the O2 network in the U.K., Ireland and Germany and Movistar in Spain in time for the Christmas holiday season.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said the Pre will also launch in Canada on Bell Mobility, a unit of Montreal-based BCE, in the second half of the year.
The Pre is similar to Apple's iPhone 3GS but comes with a slide-out keyboard in addition to a touch screen.
It uses Palm's new WebOS user interface to combine personal and professional calendar, contacts and email into one centralized view.
Additional features include a 3.0-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity, stereo Bluetooth and 8GB of memory.
Palm is hoping the Pre will take on newer smartphones like the iPhone and BlackBerry and reverse the company's long slide in the mobile computing market.
The Pre launched to positive reviews in the U.S. last month with Sprint as the exclusive carrier.
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