Unless the girls you're into get turned on by your holster-festooned belt, carrying two phones sucks. But slinging two cellies has been a necessary way to keep your personal and professional lives in check. Until the Pre, that is. Palm's new smartphone merges a BlackBerry-ish ease of typing with the "holy shit, that's cool" factor of an iPhone and promises to reduce the number of extraneous bulges in your pants to just one. Its OS seamlessly merges all of your digital calendars and contacts, your professional and corporate exchange email, even Facebook--while eliminating duplicate entries. And the Pre has the ability to run more than one application at a time, something even the almighty iPhone still can't handle. Basically, this means you can be listening to Internet radio and be playing Bejeweled while you use the slide-out QWERTY keyboard to send emails to your boss about how you are stuck in traffic but will be in soon. Man, the future is awesome. Despite all those productivity-minded features, the thing's still sexy--its slim, rounded body is dressed with a 3.1 inch 320x480 screen that multi-touches as well as the iPhone. The Pre is like the opposite of the mullet: Party in the front and business in the rear. We'll make time for both.
$TBA, Palm.com