Palm Unveils 'Pre' Smartphone Device, New OS

Palm Thursday unveiled the "Pre" smartphone, more similar to an iPhone than a Treo in looks, and a new operating system called Palm webOS, with hopes that both will keep the venerable but struggling company in the smartphone race.

The Pre — rhymes with "tree" — has a 3.1-inch touchscreen but also comes with a slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard.

Palm executive chairman Jon Rubinstein unveiled the device, which will be carried by Sprint, at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It should be available the first half of this year, and no price has been set yet.

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