Comments on: Palm Pre Teardown and Analysis – Review coming Soon!

By: Ron Vargas

Ron Vargas — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:29:18 +0000

The easiest I found – Reverse Lookup – PhoneQuick… quick and easy for reverse lookup

By: Palm Pre teardown | Hack a Day Thailand

Palm Pre teardown | Hack a Day Thailand — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:35:51 +0000

[...] UPDATE: phoneWreck’s analysis [...]

By: Technology Blogged

Technology Blogged — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:00:12 +0000

I personally can’t wait for the Palm Pixi to hit UK shores. After reviewing the Palm Pre, one thing that was apparent to me was the slightly cramped keyboard which made texting a little bit awkward.

The Pixi has fixed this apparently, however the camera resolution has been dropped to 2 megapixels, which to be honest is a shambles.

WebOS is amazing, the 1.3.5 update will be amazing I am sure, and if Google could go back knowing about WebOS they’d surely design something very similar.

Thank you for the post.

Regards,

Jakk – Your fellow Technoholic

By: [GSM] 6 Weeks on - Build Quality - Page 2 - PreCentral Forums

[GSM] 6 Weeks on - Build Quality - Page 2 - PreCentral Forums — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:56:30 +0000

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By: FreeTim

FreeTim — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:40:07 +0000

Hi. I think in your Palm Pre flow-chart the GPS is shown in the main CPU, but that’s likely not accurate but very close! It’s in the next chip leftish. Qualcomm’s RFR6500 is a receiver that can support both GPS and CDMA2000 cell voice reception.

I can send you an engineering document on the RFR6500 detailing the GPS if you need.

Cheers, keep up the good work, -Tim

By: Anton

Anton — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:50:26 +0000

So really, how much “effective” RAM does the Pre have? I’m confused because in addition to the 8GB flash memory, there appear to be two other memory modules: one with 512 MB of NAND and 256 of SDRAM, and another with 256 of SDRAM.

What does this mean?

By: Patrickz

Patrickz — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:29:03 +0000

goodjobs, guy!

By: hakta

hakta — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:24:29 +0000

Anyone know if the hardware is capable of speech processing/speech codecs? If so, what IC?

By: Think_before_whinin_Mr_Don

Think_before_whinin_Mr_Don — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:17:01 +0000

@Don: Clearly you have no knowledge of electronics. Adding a card slot is not just about bulk and placement, but also power. A reader will add sufficient power draw that it would really hurt battery life (which via multi-app mode already makes it small). Also additional PCB component would have to be added to interface with the reader.

By: APK

APK — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:52:04 +0000

I have been reading some forums user are complaining about the Palm Pre with several hardware issues: wobbly keyboards, screens – cracked, blotchy, yellow spot, and bubbles, earphone jack causing speaker not to work when plug removed, loose volume control buttons, easily scratched case, etc. Do see cheap components, poor construction, design issues, or is it just quality control?