The HP Pre3

We now have the official details on the HP Pre3 so fill your boots below. All I can say is it looks real sweet.

A few highlights of the Pre3:

Pre³ is designed for today’s instantaneous, increasingly blended mix of work and life. Its thin exterior and gorgeous touch screen conceal an email engine, slide-out keyboard, and robust battery that mean business.

Get blazing-fast downloads of both work and personal email and manage inboxes separately or all together.³ Plus keep business and personal contacts automatically up to date. HP Synergy brings them together from all the different places they reside online.³ Rushing from a meeting to a dinner reservation? Use GPS to find the fastest way.

With a camera for video calls, noise-cancelling speakerphone, and mobile hotspot, your office is mobile.^1,6,7 Carry work information more safely thanks to data encryption and password protection. Access files securely from your company’s intranet with VPN support.

More after the break:

• Color – Black

• Operating system – HP webOS

• Display – 3.58-inch multitouch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color, 480×800 resolution WVGA display

• Keyboard – Slide-out physical QWERTY keyboard

• Processor – Qualcomm MSM 8×55 (1.4 GHz)

• Email^{2 –} Microsoft^® Exchange email with Microsoft Direct Push Technology
  POP3/IMAP (Yahoo!^® Mail, Gmail^T, AOL, Hotmail^®, etc.)

• Messaging^{3 –} Integrated IM, SMS, and MMS

• GPS^{4 –} Built-in GPS

• Digital camera – 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash, HD (up to 720p) video recording, front VGA

• Audio – Mono speakerphone; dual-mic noise cancellation

• Sensors – Accelerometer, ambient light, proximity, and compass

• Media formats supported – Audio formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV
  Video formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264

• Wireless connectivity^{5 –} Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n 5GHz) with WPA, WPA2, WEP, 802.1X authentication;
  Bluetooth^® wireless technology 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support; A-GPS;
  Wi-Fi router functionality for up to five devices using HP mobile hotspot

• Memory^{6 –} 512MB RAM; choose from 8GB or 16GB internal storage
  USB mass storage support

• Battery – 1230 mAh

• Connector – Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

• Headphone jack – 3.5mm stereo

• HP Touchstone⁷ Compatible

• Dimensions

Width: 64mm (2.52 inches)
Height: 111mm (4.37 inches)
Thickness: 16mm (0.63 inches)

• Weight – 56 grams (5.5 ounces)

The next generation of Touchstone technology makes HP devices work better together. Easily share a URL between your Pre³ and an HP TouchPad simply by tapping them together. Receive text messages and answer phone calls on a TouchPad so you don’t miss a thing. Start reading a website or blog on a TouchPad and then tap your smartphone to take it to go.

What do you think? Please let us know in the forum.

Posted by: James