Palm Eos Coming to AT&T Wireless
Engadget's Joshua Topolsky today broke the news that Palm is planning to launch a webOS-based follow-up to the Centro on AT&T's network — which, for those of us who love Palm but aren't all that excited about Sprint, is very good news indeed…
"The device is a bar-style phone similar to a BlackBerry," writes InformationWeek's Eric Zeman. "It has a full QWERTY keyboard, trackball for navigation, and measures a mere 10.6mm thick. Unlike the Pre, this will be a GSM phone, and information points to a release via AT&T. It has quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, as well as 850/1900 HSDPA for AT&T's 3G network."
"The only downside that we can see is that to fit it all in such a tiny package, Palm had to make a compromise somewhere," writes PreCentral's Dieter Bohn. "That compromise: the screen. The Eos' screen is 2.63 inches diagonally, compared to the Pre's 3.1 inch screen and the iPhone's 3.5 incher. Palm also had to cut some pixels, the Eos is purported to be 320×400 instead of 320×480. The good news on that front is that we are more than confident that the webOS has the flexibility to handle pretty much any screen size you can throw at it because so much of it is based on web technologies…"
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