Palm’s Pre won CNET’s Best of CES award for 2009, and is getting tons of love from around the tech world. Not a bad accomplishment for a smartphone with a completely new OS, from a company written off as dead not long ago.

I wrote something like this about RIM’s BlackBerry Storm and got some heat for it, but still…where’s the music?

I don’t mean that the Pre won’t play music–of course it will. Palm even announced a deal with Amazon to let users buy music downloads without any intervention (cooperation? interference?) from the carrier, Sprint. (more…)

After years in a persistent vegetative state, Palm has come roaring back with a gadget that’s going to prove hard to beat in 2009. Palm has a new smartphone (Pre), a new platform (webOS), and it deserves all the plaudits that have come its way since it unveiled both at CES in Las Vegas last week. Want an iPhone with a proper keyboard and multitasking? The Pre does all that, and while the first version is exclusive to Sprint’s network in the USA, Palm surely has a version for the rest of the world that’s compatible with GSM/WCDMA networks. (more…)

A few years ago, Palm was the unquestioned leader in the U.S. smartphone and PDA market. But it has failed to keep deliver devices that consumers lusted after, and it has been rapidly losing customers and has posted six consecutive quarterly losses.

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