Bell to launch Palm Pre in Canada

Bell today announced that the new Palm(R) Pre(TM) earphone volition be exclusively available in Canada at Bell Mobility retail locations on Aug 27. Due to unprecedented demand, Bell also announced that Canadians can reserve 1 of the highly anticipated phones by pre-order now at bell.ca/pre, at Bell stores or at selected Bell retail partners.

Palm Pre is the first base earphone based on the new Palm webOS(TM) mobile platform, which brings mobile applications together in a unique and intuitive multi-tasking environs that is integrated with the most popular social networking tools and powerful search functions.(1)

The Palm Pre will monetary value as little as $199.95 on a 3-class contract or $599.95 without a contract bridge with a minimum five hundred MB data plan. Alexander Bell smartphone clients can choose from a wide variety of part and data plans, including Smartphone Combos that crack unlimited Net browse, personal email, text electronic messaging and Windows Live Messenger.

“We’re very excited to bring the revolutionist Palm Pre and the Palm webOS mobile chopine to Canadians exclusively on Bell’s subject wireless net – the largest high-speed 3G network in Canada,” said Wade Oosterman, President of Bell Mobility and Chief Brand Officer for Bell. “Considering the highly successful US introduction of the Palm Pre by Sprint in June and fast-growing Palm Pre bombilation among Canadian River mobile users, Bell and our retail partners are preparing for high demand for this discovery phone.”

Since announcing in May that it would carry the Palm Pre exclusively in Canada, Bell has seen unprecedented demand – tens of thousands of Canadians have already signed up at bell.ca/pre for more information about the device. Beginning today, clients can now pre-order the earphone at chime.ca/pre, at Alexander Bell stores or at Bell retail partners C. H. Best Buy, Future Shop, The Telephone Booth/La Cabine Tйlйphonique, WIRELESS etc. and Wireless Wave.

“Palm is creating a new measure of simplicity and utility that is changing how people looking at smartphones,” said Katie Mitic, senior frailty president, Product Marketing, Palm, Inc. “It’s a new experience to approach and connect the related but often decentralized selective information in your liveliness, and we’re eager to share the Palm experience with Canada through Alexander Bell Mobility.”

The Palm webOS platform takes multi-tasking to a new level. Customers volition lovemaking the power to run multiple applications such as Internet, textual matter electronic messaging, electronic mail and music at the same meter, and relocation easily between them using cancel fingerbreadth gestures. When they no thirster need the item, they tin close an activity by simply flicking it off the circus tent of the blind.(2)

The smooth, rounded ergonomic design makes Palm Pre a comfortable burst in your hand or pocket. The physical keyboard that slides out from beneath a large touching blind provides fasting approach to content on the device or web.

Palm webOS also features Palm Synergy(TM), which brings the users’ selective information from all the places it resides into one logical survey so they don’t have to worry about trailing multiple calendars, contacts, electronic mail accounts and messaging applications. The Synergy feature pulls selective information from a node’s Outlook(3), Google and Facebook accounts, including Facebook visibility pictures, into the contacts diligence – a compelling feature for the 85% of online Canadians that have a Facebook account.

Palm’s unique universal search allows customers to discovery what they motivation easily – just glide open the keyboard, start typewriting to get moment results. Results are pulled from the gimmick apps, contacts and popular Net sites including Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia and Twitter.(4)