HP / Palm Pre 3 Specs & Features Official at Think Beyond HP Event

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If you thought the HP Palm Pre 2 was something else then boy you were wrong. HP unveiled today at its Think Beyond event a monster smartphone, apparently made for professionals, the HP Palm Pre 3, which will be ready to fight the high-end Android devices and the upcoming iPhone 5. Palm certainly took its time to come up with a Pre successor ready to fight everyone else but the Pre 3 is really impressive, at least on paper.

At the same time the original Pre was supposed to be an iPhone-killler but we know how that went, don’t we? So let’s take a look at the specs and features of this Palm Pre 3 beast (spoiler: you’ll probably forget all about the Veer):

• 3.6-inch touchscreen display
• 480 x 800 WVGA display
• “largest QWERTY keyboard”
• Gesture area
• 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
• HP Video
• Forward-facing camera
• Video calling support
• HSPA+ and EVDO Rev. A support – World Phone
• 802.11 b/g/n
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• 8/16GB of storage
• Memory – same as the Pre 2
• Accelerometer, proximity and light sensors
• Compass
• Snapdragon 8×55 1.4GHz processor
• webOS 2.0
• Touchstone wireless charging and sharing

The HP Pre 3 looks pretty impressive and it definitely has some very interesting features. webOS 2.0 has just been officially brought back to life with this phone (again, as much as I hate to repeat myself, at least on paper) and it should certainly be a worthy iPhone 5 rival.

The HP Pre 3 has no pricing details yet, although we expect it to sell for $199.99 with new contracts, but it will sell at some point in summer 2011. Anyone already saving cash for it?

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