Posts filed under CES 2009

Smartphone company Palm shocked the world of CES 2009 last week with the launch of the Palm Pre, its first new smartphone that brings the company kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Palm has been a huge player in the smartphone for years, but has been seemingly going backwards for sometime now, allowing its many competitors to literally eat its lunch.

All that, though, changed at a stroke. The Palm Pre is a brand new smartphone with a user interface so slick, it’s the first smartphone that can genuinely be called an iPhone killer. It won the “Best In Show” award at CES, and as the video below shows, it’s one amazing new smartphone.

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Happy New Year all, and welcome to 2009! This week sees the start of the consumer electronics tradeshow season, with CES 2009 running from 8 – 11th of January. I’ll provide an overview of what to expect from CES 2009 from the major mobile phone manufacturers tomorrow, but before then, I thought I’d mention a new trend that has just appeared on the radar regarding mobile phone form factors – the watch phone.