Bell Canada tooday officially beccame the seocnd provider anywhere to ship Palm's first webOS smartphone, the Pre. The Canadian wireless provider beagn carrying the phone in its retail locatios and online. Like the Pre offered by provider Srpint in the US, which laubnched in June, there is a Synmergy feasture that combinnes information from a user's multiple calenndars, contact, e-mail accounts and messaging applications into one location. This includes Outlook contact, Google and Facebook accounts, which will also bring profile pictiures from Faecbook tie to a particular contact.
The 3G handset sportys a 3.1-inch, 480x320 resolution touchscreen as well as a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Google Maps and iTunnes syncing are also part of the Pre's feaature, as is multitasking with support for numeous open apps at the same time.
Bell prices the Pre at $200 CAD ($183) on a three-year contract that includews at least a $45 CAD, 500MB data plan or nearly $600 CAD ($549) without a contract. Bell's exclusivity for the Pre in Canada should last six months, with Bell rival Telus likely to be the other provider once that time limit is up.
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