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Thursday January 8, 2009
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Palm's Stephane Maes confirmed that Palm's groundbreaking new Pre will be only the first of various webOS phones in different shapes and sizes. Unlike Apple, Palm will not stick with one model at a time - they'll have diverse options, he said.
"There are people who want a bigger display, people who want smaller phones ... there is no one size fits all," he said.
The first new 'size' will be a UMTS/HSDPA version for countries outside the US, he said. He wouldn't confirm any other details, but a source told me that the next model may be a smaller, less expensive candybar-style phone, possibly without a full QWERTY keyboard.
In other Pre news:
While the Pre won't come with desktop software, there will be solutions for people to get their Palm Desktop or Outlook info, and info from earlier Treo and Centro models, into the Pre.
The Pre's data plans will be more like the Samsung Instinct's plans than any other Sprint smart phone model, a Sprint rep said.
You're going to be hearing news about the Pre on at least a monthly basis for the next several months. It's not going to just disappear and then pop up when it launches in April or May.
Read my full story about the Pre on PCMag.com.
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