The name “Palm” was once synonymous to the world Smartphone, but not anymore after being overtaken by RIM earlier and thereafter Apple. The announcement of Palm’s fully functional touchscreen Pre was kind of a last resort for the company to regain their lost popularity status. 

Many of us thought that Palm Pre is an iPhone killer for having features that the iPhone does not. Seems like the iPhone won’t go down the gutter when the Pre is launched in June in view of iPhone OS 3.0 announcement.  Apple demoed more than hundred enhancement features, which developers are trying to figure out all. Palm Pre will not be a hail mary device when it is launched and Apple need not worry about the multi-touch patent anymore, but feel secured.

Now, if you were to go for the Pre, what are the features you are eying at that would not be there on the iPhone after the release of OS 3.0? Copy paste, a feature that has been absent on the iPhone for a long time would be there with OS 3.0. This was one of the features that made us admire the Pre. Apart from this, we’ve wanted Bluetooth feature, MMS on the iPhone, which would all be coming with the firmware update. 

OS 3.0 would not however, bring multitasking, which some of us wanted. Apple did clarified that multitasking could not be implemented because of battery issue. On second thought, multi tasking on the iPhone scares the hell out of me. Opening multiple applications at the same time would not only eat up the juice but also eat up network data if you were to leave Internet based applications in the background. I don’t want to pay AT&T more than what I am paying now. 

Maybe, the removable battery and the 3 Megapixel camera still urges you to consider that the Pre is still cute. No iPhone users actually hate the iPhone camera, Twitterers have shown the fact and people have taken coolest pictures using the 2 megapixel camera. If you think of the iPhone from now, remember the countless features that OS 3.0 would unravel. On the side of development, I am eagerly waiting for some of the innovative applications that developers would be deploying post OS 3.0 unleashing all the capabilities of the upgraded SDK. 

Palm’s hope of rescuing it’s plummeting financial status could be worried if the sales of Pre does not click. For some reasons, I feel the announcement of iPhone OS 3.0 has impressed even hardcore Palm addicts walk directly to Apple retail stores to purchase an iPhone. If a new iPhone also is launched as speculated, Palm would have a tough time selling the Pre.