When Palm introduced the Pre beginning of 2009 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the first time the public was the interest of trade visitors and visitors enormous. For the manufacturer of the Pre Palm should be something like a saving straw, which was to save the former PDA pioneer of the crisis. Palm apparently ran out of time, for the pre out of the box is already at work when the fancy box rather hastily cobbled together as assembled with care.

Although the pre properly weighing 138 grams in the hand to touch the finger does not block valent smartphone but something that feels like a piece of plastic soap from the children’s shop. The back shell is made of plastic so thin that it is already clear to light touch to give way.

The eyebrow of the tester slips even higher when he pushed apart the first time the two halves of the housing of the device. Amongst all the network of world-tested slider models of Palm Pre is the most disagreeable sounds in this process by themselves. Poorly deburred plastic rubbing on plastic. For smartphone fans who were looking forward to the appearance of the pre in Germany as children on Christmas, does it feel like pushing the slider on slates scratchy fingernails. It hurts at the mere inspection.

Around both extremely wobbly slider pull halves apart, the user will almost always require two hands. If he tries it with one hand, the thumb inevitably ends up on the display. After a short time the display is covered with fingerprints. Also competing models fight against fat streaks. But even much cheaper mobile phone models offer a better spring-loaded slider mechanism, and can be easier and to push.

A look at the keyboard finally destroyed the last hope that it might be the pre order a premium product. A total of 35 keys are eingebettett in a dish with razor-sharp edge of completion. In addition, all keys are too close together. Even with her fingertips, the writing of text is a torment

To lengths better it is with the equipment of the Palm Pre. The smartphone features a 3.1 inches touchscreen Gossen, which dissolves with a maximum of 320 x 480 pixels. As a quadband phone with Palm Pre is almost everywhere in the world to receive. Wireless provides the home network for speedy data traffic. Heading surf pre-owner with UMTS and HSDPA support in the vastness of the Internet. The fast uploading of content into the worldwide web via HSUPA supports the Palm smartphone is not.

That connects to the device via Bluetooth to mobile phones or other wireless accessories such as headsets or headphones. The integrated digital camera has a resolution of three megapixels. An LED flash will shed light in dark shooting situations. Even GPS is on board. Due to the lack of navigation software nor the receiver is good but only for Google’s mapping application maps and geotagging.

Nearly seven out of eight gigabytes of storage to the user for multimedia content and programs from the Palm’s own online store “App Catalog” are available. If some of the memory is full, there is no way like the Apple iPhone by inserting a memory card to create additional capacity to shame -.

Inside the Palm Pre, a processor with a clock rate makes from 600 megahertz for short charging times. At his side are 256 megabytes of RAM. The power of the CPU goes from loose to play off the multitasking capabilities of the smartphone full. Even several open applications and an active Internet connection does not compel the Palm to its knees.