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Those Flash videos and games that won't play on iPhones and are hit or miss on Droid phones now work in the new Palm Pre 2.

The new Palm Pre 2 has embraced Adobe Flash. Thanks to its new operating system dubbed Web OS 2.0, Flash applications and videos function on the phone rather




seamlessly without additional software, apps or tweaks.

According to Hewlett Packard which bought Palm back in April, the Flash capabilities are just the tip of the iceberg of what Web OS 2.0 can do. It has also pumped up the Palm's multitasking abilities.

For instance users can pause a game, check email or read restaurant reviews without shutting down apps.

Keeping up with all of a friend's information is also simplified. With a feature called Just Type, by typing a keyword or someone's name, multiple options of emailing, updating a social network status, calling, texting or searching come up at once. Users "just type" out the desired action.

Technology Lifestyle Consultant and author of the Brotha Tech Blog Terrance Gaines finds the multitasking feature "smooth and attractive".

"Multitasking on other OS (operating systems) like Apple's iOS while just as fast, is not as intuitive," says Gaines. "The less thought that goes into switching between applications, the more attractive (or sexy) multitasking will be to use."

Gaines points out that Palm's sleeker and upgraded look may also draw the attention of buyers.

But ultimately it's all about the apps, not the operating system.

Currently the smartphone market is dominated by what Gaines calls the big three: Apple iPhone, Google Androids and the Blackberry. The iPhone and Android phones are the most popular because they offer a multitude of apps.

Notes Gaines, "In my opinion, apps are what make a good smartphone great, so the more developers willing to write apps for a certain OS, the more a brand can cement itself as the most popular."

In the app battle, iPhone is apparently winning.

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Keyboard-less 'Mansion' from palm? With a 800x480 screen? Say What!!

This one is still very much a rumor, but PreCentral is reporting that it's heard from a "very reliable tipster" who says that Palm is prepping a new phone codenamed "Mansion," which may or may not be the same device that recently turned up in a certification database under the name P102. The real kicker, however, is that the phone is supposedly a touchscreen-only device, and that the screen is said to boast a fairly high 800 x 480 resolution -- no word on screen size, unfortunately. Not much more than that to go on at the moment, but the "Mansion" codename itself does at least make a bit of sense -- as a PreCentral commenter has noted, the Pre was originally codenamed "Castle."

My personal take on this matter is that this will put palm back in the Race of smartphones. The Web OS is beautiful. If they were able to add the OS with the Android market and put it on the evo 4g they would have a gold mine in their " palm".

For this phone to take off they will need to drop the commercial add of the pale lady that looks like she is going to die at any moment. Research In Motion also need to show the power that the phone has. I also believe that the battery life needs to be a main focus. I say this because if you have a smartphone where all of the features can be used without having to cut everything off, that would make alot of people take interest in that phone.

Source: Pre Central

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