It’s been an interesting day in the world of the Palm Pre. First off, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam confirmed this morning that the Pre would indeed be coming to the company and that Verizon intends on selling the phone about six months from now (hmm.. I wonder if that stopped any defectors from heading over to Sprint on June 6th?). Heck.. that might even make me consider defecting back to Verizon and away from my iPhone.. just maybe…

Then, the Palm Pre made an appearance on day 7 of All Things Digital where Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee took the stage- answering questions about Palm and of course the Palm Pre. Here are some interesting tidbits from the session today:

• “Walt asks McNamee about his claim that all iPhone owners with expiring contracts will switch to the Pre. At what time will that happen? McNamee: 4:25 PM.” – funny stuff
• Multiple apps can be run at the same time easily
• Built-in support for Amazon MP3 store – files can be purchased and downloaded directly to the device
• Can sync with iTunes and iPhoto. Pre apparently pretends to be an iPod.
• Plug the Pre into a PC and you can use it as a USB drive, or use it to sync media etc
• Palm’s equivalent to the Apple App Store is the “Web App Catalog”. There will be a dozen or so apps initially. Applications are downloaded over the air
• Pre has a mirror
• Palm expects to have a GSM version but no word on when

Also – check out this funny video of a “faux-advertising shoot” involving McNamee and Rubenstein and of course, the Palm Pre.

AND finally, the lucky punks at the Boy Genius Report have managed to get their grimy hands on a new Palm Pre. You can see their short hands-on on the phone here. Grrr..

via All Things Digital

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