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Palm Pre

February 24th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in geek

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I didn’t really belive it, but Palm have risen from the clutches of death to release a new Phone but more importantly a new Phone Operating System. I used to be a bit of a Palm fan some years ago, but recently they’ve just been making hardware and installing Windows Mobile on the devices, ugh.

Take a look at the Demo from this year’s CES on YouTube. Full Length coverage broken down into 7 parts.

Features I like:

  • Calendar intergration – Displays events from your Google calendar, not sync’d.
  • Contacts – Intergrates information from other chat protocols and Facebook. Allows quick switching from SMS to Google Chat for messaging and shows online status.
  • Notifications – They nudge, they don’t take focus. Thank gawd for that!
  • Cards – All applications are now cards, this allows smooth switching and logical gestures when dealing with each ‘Card’.

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Edit: Looks like Sprint was rather generous to the Stars at the Oscars. Eliza Dushku (amoung others) now has a Palm Pre.

Love the design and intergration. I could go on about it, but here’s some screenshots below instead. :)

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Vodafone and 3/Hutchison Announce Merger

February 9th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in geek

I’ve been a 3 Customer for a number of years now and been very happy. Dark news this morning for the 3 brand and possibly their value for money service. Vodafone and 3 are set to merge this year, which would see the 3 brand dropped and the Vodafone brand take it’s place in the new VHA company.

Time will tell what this means for 3 customers and the value for money. Hopefully it will prove to be a stronger company to continue to compete with the top two mobile providers, Telstra and Optus. On a plus, it now means ‘3′ will have the iPhone. :D

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