Palm just debuted its long awaited new handset, the Palm Pre. What a name. The touchscreen handset has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, with a silver center button below and touch sensitivity all along the face. The lower part is for “gestures.” What’s that sliding out? A full QWERTY keyboard in portrait orientation. If you like, you can flip the phone on its side for accelerometer-sensed widescreen.

It’s running Palm’s all-new webOS platform, with TI’s new OMAP CPU. According to Palm, it provides laptop-style power, and powers the phone’s smooth transitions, scrolling and the like. Some other specs include EV-DO Rev. A, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth with A2DP and 8GB of built-in flash storage. It also sports a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, mass storage-friendly microUSB plug and a good ol’ 3.5mm headphone jack.

Probably the most interesting feature is the wireless charger. The phone is exclusive at launch for Sprint sometime in the first half of 2009. No word on price.
[Engadget]

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DailyMobile has some pics of the upcoming Sony Ericsson C510 codenamed Kate. It’s a successor to the Sony Ericsson K770 that packs in a 3.2 MP camera with face detection, LED flash, QVGA video, 2.2 inch QVGA display and 160MB built in memory.

Some other features include: Smile shutter, Auto rotation when viewing, Cyber-shot™ UI 2.0, Dedicated shutter key, Illuminated imaging shortcut keys, Direct blog short cut key, Blue illuminated imaging short cuts, Download and upload to YouTube. The phone is scheduled to ship in February 2009.

Should be a pretty popular model and it does have good looks.

[Dailymobile]

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Mobinnova has finally launched its feature-packed flagship handset named ICE. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional-powered smartphone will be equipped with some of the following features: 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201ATM chipset, 3” WQVGA flat TFT LCD touch-sensitive screen, GSM850/900/1800/1900MHz, WCDMA/HSPA 900/1900/2100MHz, HSDPA 7.2Mbps & HSUPA 2 Mbps, 3 megapixel autofocus camera, Secondary video camera for video calls, 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM, microSDHC memory card slot, Wi-Fi, Integrated FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity and Built-in GPS.

Yes, the outside looks ho-hum, but the specs out it as a nice feature packed phone. We hope it has a decent battery to keep up with all that functionality. No word on pricing or availability just yet.

[Unwiredview]

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