14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Palm seems set to come to the market in the near future with a new mobile phone running under its webOS mobile operating system, and some more details on the matter have just become available.
Following yesterday's news that O2 UK and SFR France were pulling the Pre Plus off shelves so as to make room for the new Palm Pre 2, confirmation on the matter has emerged from SFR itself, which has put up a coming soon page for the device.
However, the page seems to have been put online sooner than expected, and the wireless carrier already pulled it off, but the existence of Palm Pre 2 was confirmed this way, and the same applies to a series of specs the handset arrives on shelves with.
As previously rumored, the upcoming Palm mobile phone should land on shelves with a 1GHz processor on board (most probably a TI OMAP3630 CPU), while also including about 512MB of RAM.
The webOS 2.0 mobile platform is also confirmed for the upcoming handset, though no specific info on when the device would actually land on shelves emerged.
Among the other hardware specs that were unveiled, we can count a MicroUSB port, as well as a similar design with the previous webOS-based devices.
According to SFR (via BGR), the webOS 2.0 platform on the new mobile phone should also include a faster interface, multi-touch capabilities, and support for more applications and games via the App Catalog.
While the new webOS 2.0 operating system was already said to arrive on the market before the end of the ongoing year, the first devices to sport it were not expected until early next year.
Since no info on when Palm Pre 2 would arrive on shelves surfaced, we can only hope that it would make it to the market before 2010 is over, though 2011 seems like a safer bet at the moment.
