Palm unveils new mobile platform

US-based mobile products provider Palm has unveiled its Palm webOS mobile platform, and the new Palm Pre, the first phone based on the new platform. Pre is scheduled to be available exclusively from Sprint in the first half of 2009.

According to Palm, the new platform was designed to allow a vast ecosystem of partners, including developers, hardware suppliers, and accessories manufacturers, to develop core services to complement the platform and product line. For developers, webOS offers an open development environment. The platform's flexible environment is expected to allow developers to distribute their applications over-the-air via an on-device Palm application store.

Palm webOS is expected to automatically bring in information from many places-on your phone, at your work or on the web into a simple integrated view. 

At its core, webOS leverages several industry-standard technologies, including web technologies such as CSS, XHTML and JavaScript.

Ed Colligan, president and CEO of Palm, said: Palm products have always been about simplifying lives and delivering great user experiences. webOS and Pre bring game-changing simplicity to an increasingly mobile world by dissolving the barriers that surround your information. Its technology that seems like its thinking ahead to bring you what you care about most - your people, your time, and your information - in the easiest and most seamless way.

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