{"id":261,"date":"2009-01-12T21:23:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T02:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2009-01-12T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T04:23:32","slug":"the-outstanding-palm-pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/the-outstanding-palm-pre\/","title":{"rendered":"The (outstanding) Palm Pre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-262 alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 10px;\" title=\"Palm Pre\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.epkphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/main-img-177x300.png\" alt=\"Palm Pre\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/main-img-177x300.png 177w, https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/main-img-88x150.png 88w, https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/main-img.png 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/>For those of you who haven't seen the news, Palm introduced a revolutionary new device and platform at CES on January 10th.\u00a0 They call the device the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/phones\/pre\/index.html\">Palm Pre<\/a>, and the platform <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.palm.com\/\">webOS<\/a>.\u00a0 This announcement is easily the most groundbreaking and exciting news that Palm has made since I have followed the company.\u00a0 For those who don't know, I have been a Palm addict for the past 7 or so years.\u00a0 I owned three different models in the Tungsten line, and enjoyed (and felt limited) using a Treo 700p for two years before I bought an iPhone 3G this past fall.\u00a0 I never succumbed to owning a PocketPC or Windows Mobile device, but kept faithful to the true Palm OS.\u00a0 This certainly was not easy as Palm faced hard times over the past few years.\u00a0 Innovation at the company was stifled by mergers, reorganization, and promises of a brighter future.\u00a0 Well, friends, that future has come.\u00a0 The webOS looks like it is well worth the wait.\u00a0 As an iPhone owner, I find myself drooling at the design of the new operating system.\u00a0 Palm has always been the best at balancing openness with style and simplicity.\u00a0 I really can't explain how cool and functional the new device looks.\u00a0 I encourage you to check it out yourself by watching (or skimming) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/phones\/pre\/palm-pre-ces.html\">Palm Pre launch video on Palm's website<\/a>.\u00a0 Now I just have to wait for the device to come to AT&amp;T (Sprint is the launch partner&#8230;serves me right for switching).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who haven't seen the news, Palm introduced a revolutionary new device and platform at CES on January 10th.\u00a0 They call the device the Palm Pre, and the platform webOS.\u00a0 This announcement is easily the most groundbreaking and exciting news that Palm has made since I have followed the company.\u00a0 For those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[34,5,33],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p84xAX-4d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickerby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}