Thankfully, the Pre has been received with some great reviews, and it's truly something that its team can be proud of. But now that the mysterious device is becoming available to the masses, the nitpicking will begin (which is actually a great thing, incidentally).
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John Gruber recently published a characteristically insightful piece about the Verizon iPhone rumors in the press earlier this week. Speaking to rumors of what Business Week has called the "iPhone Lite," Gruber revisits Apple's introduction of the iPod Mini, which was the event that turned the iPod from a single product into a product family.
The recent media coverage about Palm having a lower-tier WebOS phone in the works — which I've already labled as madness, if true — has gotten me thinking about an old showmanship concept, called the art of the Reveal (or, more simply, the Reveal). It's a technique exploited by writers, directors, comedians, strippers, politicians, and carnies; anyone in the business of organizing a show.
TechCrunch is reporting that Palm is already creating a second WebOS device, code named Pixie, that will be a "low end" version of its upcoming (and as-yet unreleased) Pre.
I've been eagerly following news about Palm's upcoming Pre smartphone. Even though I am not presently planning to pick one up for myself (for starters, there's no way in hell I'm signing up for Sprint service), I'm quite excited about this new contender in the smartphone market.