You know that satisfying feeling you get when you flick your apps off your screen to close them?
Or when you finally get used to gestures and realize how much more fluid they feel than buttons?
How’bout just typing right on your home screen to find what you’re looking for?
Or, my personal favorite: the simple joy of dropping your phone onto a puck to charge it.
It’s kinda like … “when you’re driving, and all the red lights ahead of you are turning green … and going ‘bing … bing … bing.'”
All those features – and so many more – can be traced back to a single progenitor: a phone that promised to think ahead … with a name to match. When it broke cover fifteen years ago, the Palm Pre captivated the press and made the still-new iPhone 3G look pedestrian by comparison.
But just two years after its debut, this phone, its acclaimed software platform and the venerable company that spawned it would all be gone.
I’m MrMobile; the year is 2009; and this is the story of the Palm Pre.