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January 8, 2009 12:56 PM PST

CNET News Daily Podcast: Say hello to the Palm Pre

by Leslie Katz

At the CES gadget extravaganza in Las Vegas, Palm has just unveiled its much-anticipated new handset, the Palm Pre, which features the new Palm Web OS. CNET News reporter Tom Krazit takes a look. That, and other headlines of the day, on Thursday's CNET News Daily Podcast.


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Ballmer touts Windows 7 beta, new deals

Dell's Ireland plant to shed 1,900 jobs

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Leslie Katz, senior editor of CNET's Crave, covers gadgets, games, and most other digital distractions. As a co-host of the CNET News Daily Podcast, she sometimes tries to channel Terry Gross. E-mail Leslie.
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by Hep Cat January 8, 2009 1:33 PM PST
LOL@the wireless charger and Sheryl Sandberg. Partners? Does that mean an App Store? Thos 20 million mobile FaceBook users are all on iPhones!

The wireless charger is a great idea with laughable execution - who wants to put that oddly-shaped thing in their bag? Obvously, it is bigger than the phone...and there's no indication it can use conventional chargers. At least the iPhone can use every single one of the billions of iPod USB chargers in existence.
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by gkergosien January 9, 2009 9:16 AM PST
I'm a pretty loyal Windows Mobile user, however what I've seen so far is very impressive and may entice me to switch. We've even started a community over at http://www.SprintPre.net to chat about it.
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by AppleSuxLeo January 15, 2009 3:22 AM PST
Krazit left out many things such as the innovative gesture area , the ability to flick the "card" off the screen to close a program , the brilliance of the "Synergy" which pulls info from many different online services into one list and auto-updates your contacts , the physical form of the Pre fits the hand much nicer and is easier on the eyes than the slab-phone he is comparing it to. The list goes on and on.
Updates on Pre are pushed out OTA and there is no need to connect to a home computer/iTunes to work.
The iPhone is iTunes-centric , whereas the Pre is Web-centric. Most people`s lives don`t revolve around iTunes , the revolve around the WEB !
If you look at a side-by-side of the Pre and iPhone , the iPhone looks ugly and lacks style.
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