The Palm Pre Plus was introduced at the start of the year during the CES 2010. This smartphone is a jack up version of the Palm Pre which features some restyling including a reworked keyboard that gives the Palm Pre Plus a better feel and look.

Design

You will not really notice much difference between the Palm Pre Plus and its older sibling the Palm pre. It still has a slider configuration and the overall pebblelike shape. It also highlights a 3.1-inch multitouch HVGA screen.

Some vital changes though include the removal of the center knob. The function is now integrated with the gesture area giving the Palm Pre Plus a classier look.

We still find the keyboard a bit small but it gets a lot of improvement if you compare it to the gummy feel of the keyboard of the Palm Pre. You will definitely find the keyboard of the Palm Pre Plus a lot easier to use when texting or encoding. The slide of the phone also now gets a more solid glide and the phone is a lot more stable when closed without the rickety feel.

Another big  change is the inductive feature of the back cover. So once you pull it out of the box, its ready for that Touchstone.

Performance

The Palm Pre Plus comes with the Palm WebOS 1.3.5.1. When we tested this device, we encountered some voice distortion but the call quality was good overall.

The picture quality is also impressive but we might find it more exciting when the edit and video recording features come in. The talk time of the Palm Pre Plus is expected to be around 5.5 hours with a standby time of around 14.5 days.