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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 09 March 2009 | |
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According McNamee, once iPhone users are free of their restrictive contracts, they'll drop their iPhones like hot bricks and go racing out to stores to replace them with a Palm Pre. Wishful thinking? Almost certainly. However, there is no denying that the Pre is a compelling device, so much so that it has Apple worried. Quite simply, from all reports and visual demonstrations of the Pre, it not only matches the current iPhone for functionality but it actually surpasses it in quite a few areas. The Pre may even be able to match the iPhone for its coolness factor - after all U2 frontman and all-round humanitarian and good-guy Bono is an investor. More importantly, so is former Apple hardware head Jon Rubinstein. With a 3.1 inch screen, the Pre has a lot of the same features as the iPhone, including multi-touch screen functionality with the same pinching, squeezing, flicking and tapping movements - which some say could cause patent issues with Apple. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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