Dear Palm,

Please con­sider this my Pre-order for the Palm Pre, the first phone designed specif­i­cally for the inter­net from the bot­tom up.

“Under the hood is a speedy new micro­proces­sor from Texas Instru­ments that runs videos quickly and smoothly, with less of the herky-jerkiness that mobile devices are known for. The phone has 8 giga­bytes of stor­age, which is decent but not great; it can run Adobe Flash, and can cut, copy and paste, which iPhone can’t; it sup­ports mul­ti­me­dia mes­sag­ing ser­vice (MMS) so you can send text mes­sages with pho­tos attached, which iPhone can’t do; it has a 3 megapixel cam­era and a flash, which iPhone lacks. There’s a but­ton that lets you buy music from Amazon’s down­load store. Then there’s the mul­ti­task­ing. Want to talk on the speak­er­phone while brows­ing the Web and enter­ing stuff in your cal­en­dar? No prob­lem. Palm expects peo­ple will keep 15 to 20 appli­ca­tions open at the same time.

Palm’s engi­neers have done some really slick things with appli­ca­tions them­selves, espe­cially con­tacts and cal­en­dars. You can pull together mul­ti­ple cal­en­dars and view them all at once—say, your work cal­en­dar, your home cal­en­dar, even cal­en­dars from other peo­ple, like your spouse’s Google cal­en­dar (your spouse needs to give you the log-on info). The con­tact man­ager pulls con­tact infor­ma­tion from mul­ti­ple sources—Yahoo con­tacts, Google con­tacts, Face­book con­tacts. A list­ing in your address book can con­tain every way of reach­ing that person—via work mail, Gmail, or Face­book mail, for example—and lets you send a mes­sage to a friend using any one of these. Also, the appli­ca­tions talk to one another. When the cal­en­dar appli­ca­tion prompts you for a reminder about a meet­ing, it also pulls up a list of the peo­ple who will be attend­ing, with their con­tact info. So if you’re run­ning late, you can let every­one know.” [Newsweek]

Here’s more on the way the var­i­ous appli­ca­tions are inte­grated to cre­ate a bet­ter user expe­ri­ence, hope­fully one that is seam­less and blur-ry, the way my online/offline is.

“Thanks to Syn­ergy, all your con­ver­sa­tions with the same per­son are grouped together in one chat-style view. (Even if it started in IM, for exam­ple, and you want to reply with text.) You can also see who’s online right from con­tacts, and start a new con­ver­sa­tion with just one touch.” [Palm Pre site]

Throw in a remov­able bat­tery, WiFi, GPS, wire­less charg­ing, and the abil­ity to use the phone with one hand, and I’m SO there.

I’m also look­ing for­ward to using DCPL’s sec­ond phone app for search­ing its cat­a­log. Com­ing soon to a Pre near you me, right, Aaron? After all, it is just a fla­vor of Linux, and “all apps are just CSS, HTML and JavaScript. ALL OF THEM..”