Even with all the smart phones like Blackberry, IPhone Palm is now getting into the game.  One of the big surprise at CES this year was when Palm unveiled their new smart phone. It’s called the Palm Pre and it runs Palm’s new Web-OS.

There are a few things of interest about the Pre to us iPhone users:

1. It appears not to suck, which means that the iPhone might have some good competition. Competition will keep Apple on their toes, and theoretically will result in an even better iPhone, so iPhone users win.

2. The Pre’s web browser is based on Web Kit, which is the HTML-rendering engine that powers all versions of Safari (on the iPhone, Mac, and PC). More people using Web Kit means that now companies will have even more reason to make sure their Web sites work with Web Kit.

Hopefully even with all the hype at the CES, it will live up to what some expect.  Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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