The Palm Pre 2 , styled as palm prē 2, is a

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designed and marketed by

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, and Hewlett-Packard with a multi-touch screen and a physical sliding keyboard. The smartphone is the third to use Palm's

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-based

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(releasing with version 2.0). The Pre 2 functions as a camera phone, a portable media player, and has location and navigation capabilities. The Pre also serves as a

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, has a number of communication and collaboration applications, and has

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and

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connectivity built-in. The Palm Pre 2 was announced on October 19, 2010, with an initial launch date of October 22, 2010, on French carrier

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. It was also announced that the Pre 2 would be coming to United States carrier

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in Canada, and also as an unlocked

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developer phone. Additions include a flat Gorilla Glass screen (instead of the curved plastic of its predecessors) surrounded with plastic trim, a faster processor, an upgraded camera. The plastic door which covered the microUSB port on previous iterations, considered flimsy by some, was removed. Otherwise, the Pre 2 has the same size and design as its predecessors. The Pre 2 was the last mobile phone to be branded with the Palm name. The Pre 3, HP Veer, Veer and HP Touchpad, Touchpad were branded as HP devices.

History

On August 11, 2010,

developer Geoff Gauchet discovered that an unknown device with the code name "Roadrunner" was accessing his Foursquare City Guide, Foursquare app using a new version of webOS, version 2.0. On October 12, 2010, several specifications of Pre 2, including processor speed and memory, were leaked on France's

website, prior to its official launch on October 22. On November 18, 2010, the Pre 2 became available in the U.S. as an unlocked developer device. On December 20, 2010, the Pre 2 launched in Canada on

. On February 17, 2011, the Pre 2 launched in the U.S. on

Software

The Pre 2 is the first phone to use version 2.0 of HP Palm's

. The last version to be available for the Pre 2 was version 2.2.4, subject to carrier approval on certain models however.

References

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