Then we have the Pre3 with a large 3.58-inch touchscreen, fast 1.4-GHz processor and a full slide-out keyboard, Pre³ is a multitasking professional workhorse that’s perfectly balanced for speed and serious fun.

With an array of features that are critical for professionals balancing work and personal use – including the speed of 3G and Wi-Fi,⁽¹⁾ a comfortable keyboard for typing and a large vivid touchscreen – Pre³ offers the best of both worlds on the powerful HP webOS platform:

 

• Business-class email – Pre³ offers business-class email and encrypted data storage to protect critical information and supports industry-standard VPN to connect to corporate networks. You can read and write email with ease, view your email accounts together or easily toggle between them.^(1,3)
• More ways to connect – With the HP Synergy feature, you just have to sign in to your Facebook®, Google, Microsoft® Exchange, LinkedIn and Yahoo!® accounts. Your information – email, contacts, calendars – automatically populates your phone and stays updated so it’s always at your fingertips.⁽³⁾ Integrated messaging conveniently combines all your text messages, picture messages and IM conversations with one person into a single view, and you can connect through SMS, MMS, Google Talk, AIM and Yahoo! Messenger.
• The whole web – Pre³’s high-performance web browser offers support for HTML5 features and Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 beta for access to rich, Flash-based web content on the phone’s big, vivid display.⁽¹⁾
• Video calling – Pre³ has a front-facing camera, a great speaker and noise cancellation for a state-of-the-art video calling experience.^(1,4)
• True Multitasking – webOS works the way you do. Begin an email, pause to answer a call, check your calendar, send a text, then switch back to your email without closing anything. Pre³ lets you easily manage multiple open applications and notifications using natural touch gestures. Whether you’re planning a meeting or a night on the town, webOS keeps related items together so managing multiple tasks is easy.⁽⁵⁾
• Just Type – Start an email, create a message, update your status and search your favorite websites – all before you’ve even opened an app. Because webOS works the way you do, whenever you want to do something on your Pre³ – whether it’s emailing, texting, searching or almost anything – just type.
• Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite – HP is working with Quickoffice to include the Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite, which offers support for viewing Microsoft Office Word and Excel and provides integration with a variety of services, including Google Docs and Box.net.
• Touch-to-share – With HP’s new and exclusive touch-to-share feature, you’ll be able to simply tap your Pre³ phone to the new HP TouchPad to share web addresses between devices.⁽⁶⁾
• GPS – Get where you need to be with built-in GPS on Pre³. Apps such as Fandango and OpenTable work with GPS to pinpoint your exact location, get directions, find nearby places of interest and provide turn-by-turn directions.⁽⁷⁾
• Apps to keep you connected – The webOS App Catalog features thousands of apps for fast and easy access to all the things you need to keep your day moving, such as weather, news, hotel and restaurant reviews and reservations, flight info and games.⁽⁸⁾ Mobile social networking apps such as Facebook and Twitter allow you to stay connected throughout your hectic day and update your status and upload pictures in real time.
• HP mobile hotspot – Pre³ also supports the HP mobile hotspot, enabling your phone to act as a mobile Wi-Fi router so you can share wireless internet connectivity with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices, including the new HP TouchPad, as well as notebooks, gaming devices and portable media players.⁽⁹⁾

Pre³ is compatible out of the box with HP Touchstone (sold separately). The webOS Exhibition feature lets you run apps designed specifically for HP Touchstone – showing you anything from today’s agenda to a slideshow of your photos – turning charge time into useful time.⁽¹⁰⁾

Availability

The HP Pre³ smartphone is scheduled to be available in the summer. Exact pricing and availability will be announced at a later date.

HP Pre³ features and specs

• HP webOS
• High-speed connectivity⁽¹⁾
• Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8x55 1.4-GHz processor
• 3.58-inch multitouch screen with a vibrant, 24-bit color, 480 x 800 resolution display
• Gesture area, which enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation
• Redesigned vertical slide-out QWERTY keyboard with backlight
• 8 or 16 gigabytes (GB) of internal storage⁽¹¹⁾
• High-performance browser with full access to the web, including support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta for access to rich, Flash-based web content⁽¹⁾
• Wireless connectivity:
  • Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication⁽¹⁾
  • Integrated GPS (and A-GPS)⁽⁷⁾
  • Bluetooth® wireless technology 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
  • Wi-Fi router functionality for up to five devices using HP mobile hotspot⁽⁹⁾
• Multimedia options, including music, photos, video recording and playback, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack
  • Rear-facing autofocus camera with flash, HD camcorder (capable up to 720p video recording)
  • Front-facing VGA fixed-focus camera for live video calling⁽⁴⁾
• Email, including EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers) and personal email support (Google Gmail push, Yahoo!, POP3, IMAP)⁽³⁾
• Robust messaging support (combining IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)⁽¹²⁾
• Proximity sensor, light sensor, accelerometer and compass
• Removable, rechargeable 1,230 mAh battery
• USB mass storage mode to transfer media and other files quickly between desktop and device
• Ringer switch, which easily silences the ringer with one touch
• Compatible with HP Touchstone (sold separately)
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 64 mm x 16 mm (4.37 inches x 2.52 inches x .63 inches)
• Weight: 156 grams (5.5 ounces)

More information about HP Pre³ is available at www.palm.com/Pre3.

 

(1) Within wireless coverage area only. Actual speeds may vary. Email, mobile number and related information required for setup and activation. Required data services sold separately; unlimited plan recommended and may be required. Not all web content may be available.

(2) Talk, standby and usage times are approximate and depend on the network configuration, the usage pattern of an individual user and the configuration of the handheld. Use of some internal wireless capabilities and backlight will significantly decrease battery run time.

(3) Within wireless coverage area only. Microsoft Exchange email, contacts and calendars available for ActiveSync only; requires Microsoft Outlook using Exchange Server 2003 with SP2, Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010.

(4) Check with carrier for video calling availability and restrictions.

(5) Performance varies bases on actual usage.

(6) Requires TouchPad with webOS 3.0 and Pre³ or Veer with webOS 2.2 or higher, both products having same HP webOS Account. Viewing URL web page content requires data connection via Wi-Fi or cellular connection.

(7) Within wireless coverage area only. Voice-activated, as-you-go, turn-by-turn directions sold separately.

(8) Third-party software available separately. Within wireless coverage area only. Requires data services at additional cost. Availability will vary by region.

(9) The mobile hotspot application requires a special data plan and is separate from the smartphone data feature. While HP mobile hotspot is active, on-device applications will continue to work and will use the same data plan as the mobile hotspot. Mobile hotspot data usage may incur additional charges. Check with carrier for plan details.

(10) Displayed preferences require user setup.

(11) 8 GB or 16 GB maximum storage. User-available memory subject to change based on system software and application usage.

(12) Within wireless coverage area only. SMS, MMS and IM require data services at additional cost. Availability of IM functionality may vary by carrier.