5. Palm Pre
The Palm Pre was probably the most hyped phone of 2009. Hailed as the saviour of Palm, it initially promised to at least threaten the iPhone at the top of the touchscreen pile.
One thing's for sure, it's more suited for business users because of its slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
In fact, if you peek under the hood, you'll find a quick Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 processor, 8GB of internal memory, 802.11g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with A2DP stereo.
This is a capable mobile computer that supports multi-tasking, contact sync across multiple web services, and push email that could lead to swift adoption at companies both large and small, filling the void left by the popular Palm Treo from years ago.
In truth though, it's no iPhone-beater. But that's not in any way a criticism, more of a back-handed compliment to Apple in fact, because the Pre is still a seriously nice piece of kit.
Read: Palm Pre review
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See also: BlackBerry Bold 2, Nokia E72
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dsj
November 17th
14. nitebot - 'The UK didn't have a national or even regional radio mobile phone network.'
I don't know how old 'nitebot' is but we had an automatic Radiophone System 4 network operational in London, in the summer of 1981. The coverage was extended to major population areas by 1983. We had a manual Radiophone System 1 in 1959 in South Lancashire and was later extended to cover London. Later there was System 2 which used 9 channels. System 3 used auto scanning 55 channel mobile but call were still connected by the operator. Automatic Radiophone system 4 ran till 1989 as celluar system took over with its base station handover capabilty. The rest is history as they say...
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zmcguiness
November 12th
13. You guys did really well, clearing that thing up about cell vs. mobile.
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bullitinn56
November 8th
12. moving, or capable of moving or being moved, from place to place, definition of Mobile, but a laptop is still a laptop and a caravan will never be a trailer or mobile home......
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nitebot
November 2nd
11. @rsmits
In America, you had the radio mobile phone before the cellular mobile phone, and handsets were known as 'mobile phones.' The UK didn't have a national or even regional radio mobile phone network.
When cellular mobile phone networks were created in America, it was decided to use the shorthand term 'cell phone' to distinguish handsets from the radio 'mobile phones.' But in the UK, the cell phone network was the first mobile network and so we just started calling handsets mobile phones.
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lovlid
November 2nd
10. @ rsmits.
And by the by, cell phone is short for cellular mobile. Check your Websters.
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lovlid
November 2nd
9. @ rsmits.
And how do the 'planes fly in your part of the world, because there is no such thing as "aluminum". And did you read Harry potter and the philosopher's stone, or Harry Potter and the Magic Boulder or whatever words you used to dumb it down.
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