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The Palm Pre 2 smartphone has been reengineered to do more of what you want to do—faster. Quickly switch between multiple open apps.1 Simply start typing to begin an email or update your status. Tap a message notification while you’re playing a 3D game.2,3 With HP webOS 2.0, accomplishing more is effortless.

Streamlined design.

Palm Pre 2 features a sleeker design that still gives you the perfect combination of a vivid touchscreen and slide-out keyboard. And now with a completely smooth glass display, Pre 2 is as durable as it is graceful.

True multitasking.

Pause a game, tap an email notification, check your calendar, read a restaurant review, send an email reply, then switch back to the game without closing anything.1,2 Now in webOS 2.0, your open apps are logically grouped together in card stacks, so managing multiple tasks is ridiculously easy.

Automatically up to date.

Keep your contacts and calendars up to date automatically with built-in integration for Facebook®, Google™, LinkedIn®, Yahoo!® and Microsoft® Exchange.4 When a contact’s information changes in one place, like an email address on LinkedIn, for example, you’ll see it updated on your phone.

View email accounts side by side.
Customize your email inbox and view all of your accounts together or separately. Mark the folders you use most as favorites for faster access. See work email alone—or combined in a favorites folder with personal email from places like Gmail™ or Yahoo!® Mail.1 Either way, you only have to go one place to stay on top of all your accounts.1

Receive notifications when email arrives.
Never miss an email, even when you’re surfing the web or watching a video. HP webOS sends you a notification at the bottom of your screen when an email arrives on the server. You can choose how often your phone checks email for any account—by the minute or the hour, or manually.2

Search for email simply by typing.
Search for a particular email just by typing the first few letters of a name, email address, or subject line. Matching results appear as you type. You don’t have to spend time searching through hundreds of messages just to find the one you need.
 

Carrier
Color
Black
Operating system
HP webOS platform
Display
3.1-inch multitouch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color, 320x480 resolution HVGA display
Keyboard
Slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard
Email2
Microsoft® Exchange email with Microsoft
Direct Push Technology
POP3/IMAP (Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, AOL, Hotmail®, etc.)
Messaging3
Integrated IM, SMS, and MMS
GPS4
Built-in GPS
Digital camera
5-megapixel camera with LED flash, extended depth of field, geotagging, and video capture
Sensors
Accelerometer, ambient light, and proximity
Media formats supported
Audio formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV
Video formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264
Wireless connectivity5
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication;
Bluetooth® wireless technology 2.1+ EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support;
Wi-Fi router functionality for up to five devices using Palm mobile hotspot.5
Memory
16GB (~15GB user available)6
USB mass storage support
Battery life
Verizon Wireless (CDMA)
Up to 5.5 hours talk time and 350 hours standby time
Unlocked (UMTS)
Up to 5 hours talk time and 350 hours standby time
Connector
Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Headphone jack
3.5mm stereo
HP Touchstone Charging Dock7
Compatible
Palm Pre Touchstone Back Cover included
Dimensions
Width: 59.6mm (2.35 inches)
Height: 100.7mm (3.96 inches)
Thickness: 16.9mm (0.67 inches)
Weight
145 grams (5.1 ounces)

Hewlett-Packard Co said it has struck a $1.2 billion deal for Palm Inc, offering a 23 per cent premium to expand into the smartphone

market.
The news comes after much speculation on Wall Street about who would buy Palm, which once dominated the market but which has been overshadowed by Apple Inc's iPhone, Research in Motion's BlackBerry and phones that use Google Inc's Android software.
In a sign of Palm's struggles, the company on Wednesday slashed expectations for the current quarter, saying slow sales of its products have resulted in low order volumes from phone carriers. "If you saw the guidance Palm just put out, it was clear they had to sell," said Phil Cusick, analyst at Macquarie Research.
"Given how quickly Palm's business was falling off and how fast their cash was going out the door, they're lucky to get what they got.
Shares of Palm, which is 30 per cent owned by private equity firm Elevation Partners, jumped 28 per cent to $5.92, above HP's offer in a sign that some investors could be betting on a higher bid.
Under the deal approved by the two companies' boards of directors, HP will pay $5.70 cash per share of Palm, a 23 per cent premium to its closing price on Wednesday of $4.63.
Some investment banking sources had thought that Lenovo was the leading candidate to buy Palm after the US company was rebuffed by other potential Asian buyers including HTC Corp and Huawei.
Palm now expects fiscal fourth quarter revenue in the range of $90 million to $100 million, compared with its mid-March forecast that revenue would be less than $150 million. It estimated it would end its fiscal fourth quarter with a cash balance of between $350 million and $400 million.
HP already has a smartphone, the iPaq, which runs on Microsoft's Windows mobile platform. But the device has gained little traction in a smartphone market crowded with competitors. Lawrence Harris, analyst at C L King associates, said it would have been risky for HP to ignore the rapidly growing smartphone market.
"I would say HP looked around and said, we need to be in this space. Google is here, Apple is here. And there aren't many stand-alone smartphone companies," Harris said. "They would be one of the few companies that I think could successfully turn Palm around."
Palm's current chairman and CEO, Jon Rubinstein, is expected to remain with the company, HP said in a statement, adding that it expects the acquisition to close during its third fiscal quarter ending July 31. Shares of HP fell to $52.35 in extended trading from their New York Stock Exchange close of $52.28.