Smartphones impress at CES

Most of the smartphones we saw at CES were updated versions of older models. But the new Palm Pre (and its webOS) was a breath of fresh air -- and it definitely stole the show.
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Smartphones impress at CES

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Palm Pre

The new Palm Pre has an ergonomic curved body with a slide-out vertical QWERTY keyboard and multitouch-screen. Slick in appearance and efficient in function, its webOS aims to bring together all of the facets of your life into one seamless application. And from what we've seen, the Pre looks like it could be a major threat to the iPhone and Android-based G1.

Palm has not set an exact availability date or a price for the Pre, but it will be on Sprint's 3G network.

-- By Ginny Mies, PC World