Palm Pre

(8 out of 10)

...take note: Smartphones just took a huge leap forward.

How many so-callediPhone killers have we sifted through by now? It seems like every other month, another company rolls out another smartphone groomed to dethrone the now-ubiquitous Apple superphone. From the T-Mobile G1 to Sony’s Xperia X1, many have tried. And so far, they’ve all fallen pretty flat.Palm can’t afford to join the crowd of failures. The 17-year-old company that helped usher in the era of the smartphone is scrambling for the last handhold on a financial cliff, and its life or death now rides almost entirely on the Pre, a groundbreaking phone it first awed audiences with at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in January.It’s slick. It’s powerful. And it has an impressive bloodline. Will it pull it off? We picked up the pearly new $200 Pre from Sprint to find out. Continue reading full review @ Digital Trends