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Here's another look at the Palm Pre. This time its excellent UI & UX design approach.
 
It is very very interesting to me that the Palm designers choose to design their screen layout to be be scrollable sideways -- left and right.
 
With this approach: at any time Palm user can see 'section' of the screen where their application 'card' resides. Yet if they want to see the 'remaining side of the screen' -- or the other 'application cards' that they have, they just simply need to flip the screen to the right or left, with quick simple scrolling gesture of their hand. The screen scrolls to the destination we intend to. It gives us a sense that the screen becomes 'flexibly wide' and seems almost 'have no boundary'.
 
Such approach and idea is a great breakthrough, and truly awesome too. It turns a tiny screen and its limited dimension to be come a huge flexible scrollable space that people can navigate around. Combined with the 'application card' approach, people no longer have to just take a look at application icons, instead they can interface and interact with the 'widgets' directly, on their tiny screen!
 
Such approach very similar with how we experience interactive games in the past. In interactive games, never we are limited by the screen boundary; instead the physical screen just become a 'frame' where we can navigate through a virtual space, freely, without boundary.
 
In a way, this approach also might be a great example of how a 'compiz' approach towards making virtual screen space wider and more spacious than its physical layout provide being adapted for limited sized mobile device.
 
It is truly awesome that Palm come up with such a great idea. I am so sure this 'application card' approach would become a great popular trend (or approach) for designing mobile user interface and user experience, today and in the very near future.

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Seems Palm is ready to be back in the game. It's latest Palm Pre that was introduced just today is magnificent.
 
The key features that I like truly like from the new well designed device: Beautiful innovative software, splendid fresh intuitive wonderful looking UI that makes both user interaction and consolidated information management and interaction around the web superbly integrated, smart, intuitive and easy, physical keyboard and design that offer best combination in touch and keyboard interface.
 
These drive and thinking ahead innovations are truly truly awesome.
 
I am so glad that Palm's innovation, coolness and mojo is back! This is truly truly truly truly awesome!

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Just a few minutes ago, Palm announced at CES, their new palm device!
Called Pre, it looks awesomely cool! It got tons of beautiful web-sync ideas too!!
 
Here's a peek as of tonight (Jan 9, 2009; 2:00am)

                 

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Slick curve design. Sleek vertical keyboard. Yikes!!
John Rubinstein rocks!!
 
Click here to follow the entire livecast: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/live-from-palms-ces-press-conference/
 
Enjoy!

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I checked Palm website today, and I found it totally have changed. It looks truly awesome.
 
I guess if Palm is doing this also in preparation to the upcoming release of its brand new latest new device (which is based on its brand new Palm OS) this Thursday, then it is a preparation that is really well done. The new site really look truly awesome.
 
I sincerely look forward to see a brand new device (and brand new operating system) that really looks awesome, and truly work as great too. Rumors said that the brand new device has a touch screen interface on top, with a physical keyboard beneath it. I guess this is one of the best form factor for modern palm computing device these days.
 
I sincerely hope Palm would be able to introduce a truly great new device; It's about time they make a great comeback!

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People say that Palm's latest device will be announced sometime in Q1 or latest Q2 2009. Designed with the look of the Treo Pro (or even better), it was told that the "new Palm" that was secretly being developed the past 3 years will boost a new Linux based Palm Operating system called "Nova".
 
I sincerely hope that this Palm 2.0 device would be as great as Palm V or Palm Treo in the past. If such is the case, then we might be able to see Palm back.
 
It is really strange, and pity to see Palm having all these difficulties, when the smart-phone (and PDA) market that it initiated is currently at its best peak.

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I seriously wonder why Palm is not making the 'modern' version of this device.
This is almost a perfect 'tablet' device we ever had. It's sleek, it's thin, it's pocketable, it's portable.
Even iPhone-- in many ways -- resembles what this device (once) had! -- in its design, simplicity, sleekness, hardware elegance, and software standout!
 
Perhaps palm just need to make it work 'like a piece of paper' even more, incorporate it's 'handspring-root' too make it phone-enable, and forget those cluncky complicated Windows Mobile interface all out! ...

Then we got our 'perfect palm' handheld (or 'tablet' ??) back.

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So, now we understand that currently iPhone is eating up Palm's market share, while Blackberry is relatively floating stable (for now).

It would be interesting to see how the trend goes, ..

• As more and more Android-phones start to appear in 2009.
• As cheaper high quality smartphone devices being introduced (the likes of Nokia E71).

.. and as these new 'genes of devices' penetrate the market across 'any network' and across 'any devices' even more.

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It's really sad to see Palm -- who pioneered the PDA (and Smartphone) industry -- today becoming a great brand that tries to survive, right at the time when it's entire vision of portable computing and wireless internet happen in its most exciting pace.
I really hope Palm will soon find its mojo back. Just the way Apple did, a few years ago.

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