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hey what's up guys John rettinger here and I want to talk to you about the palm pre I've been holding out from making a video discussing it until there was some official announcement from palm and spread themselves and today may 19th there finally was the big announcement everybody wanted to know when it was it going to be released how much was it thing going to cost and the answers to those questions it'll be released Saturday June sixth and it will run you 199 on a two-year contract after a hundred dollars manufacturer rail and mail-in rebate so the 199 will cost 299 in store and if you want that really cool wireless charging touchstone they're calling it it's going to run you another 70 bucks so you are looking at a pretty significant investment so let me talk to you about the palm pre and tell you I am excited about it what I like and what I don't like about the device or what I expect not to like about the device I will have one on gin six foreign unboxing and review so be sure to stick around to the channel what I do like about the palm pre first and foremost is it's a new form factor it's a new phone anything that's new and evolutionary the revolutionary pushes the industry much like the iPhone pushed Microsoft to improve windows mobile and pushed blackberry to probably delete the storm the palm pre is going to drive the industry forward and that is always a good thing I'm looking forward to using the webos it does appear to be a very elegant operating system multitasking is a huge huge huge thing for me I've got on the record is saying I'm a huge fan as well of multi-touch capacitive screens that's why I love the iphone the g1's capacitive screen is fantastic even though it doesn't utilize multi-touch but the pre wolf capacitive screen and will utilize multi-touch in ton of different ways so I'm very excited about it i also like they're sort of synergy thing they're talking about which essentially pull in contact from all your different online clouds so you know Gmail Yahoo were ever it'll put in all of your contacts and keep them organized and we want to reply to an email it'll keep everything sort of in a single mailbox so you can choose to reply from any Account really thought having to go back to different mailboxes they know the iphone has a similar feature but the pre seems to be a little bit more elegant implementation of that so I am quite excited also webos like i mentioned that multitasking makes you say these cool little cards essentially you get a stack of cards you can flick through and each card represents a new application or prosecutor running I think it looks really cool also the art can have their own version of the app store but that's not the only way to get apps out you don't have to just download them you can put your own apps on their developing for the device will be nice and easy I think one of the things that I always liked about Windows Mobile was that it was an open platform and webos is sort of taking that queue and is an open platform as well I also kind of dig having a full tactical chorded keyboard the palm pre me right now does not have any sort of on-screen keyboard it realized solely on its physical keyboard that slides up from the bottom so I think that it's gonna be a nice implementation I prefer if I have a choice of having a tactile keyboard although the iphones implementation is very nice and relatively elegant i think it really will be easier to have a full keyboard you know what also like you i want to see what the hype is about I want to see if it's worth while the palm pre was the gem of last CES and it's supposed to be the savior for palm and probably the savior for sprint and I really care see if it lives up to the hype if you do want to get one you can go on jun 6 to your local sprint store but it's not the only place you can go it's actually launching the same day at radioshack best buy and walmart sir privately so you have any of those by you you can go there and pick up your palm I know a lot of people are saying looks like a cool device if it wasn't on sprint and I can't vouch for sprite service by you or even by me for for that I've never used sprint the people i know that have had it have been relatively happy i use 18 teen with my iphone is my primary phone but i am very excited to try sprint out try out the 3g network and compare it with phones like the iphone and the storm and see how it stacks up those are really its biggest competitors and see if it's meant for business users if it's meant for just a casual user how the internet browser works how the multitasking works the processor and the RAM can handle multitasking and I'm really excited to get my hands on it and see how it works and overall I'm kind of bought into the pipe a little bit about the palm pre I'm I'm excited about it and I can't wait to get one to test for myself so guys are you excited about the pre are you going to get one are you going to try and wait in line for one your think it's worth it are you would you get one if it wasn't on Sprint's do like the operating system leave your comments about the palm pre I'm really curious to know what you guys have to say I'll certainly be reading all of them anyway guys this is jon rettinger for exclusive content and some pre updates be sure to follow me at twitter com on for lakers and then one last thing i want to mention that is certainly interesting is the prison being released two days before Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference so maybe palm is trying to preempt a potential new iphone announcement although would seem if there are new hardware announcements at developers conference that bone take a lot of the press away and maybe steal some of the thunder from the storm to only have a two-day leeway maybe they're banking on Apple not really announcing anything and palm really maintaining in the media momentum that's it going to be building who knows it was just an interesting point anyway guys jon rettinger I will see you in the next video bye bye