https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=M64U0XyLA-o&feat... Palm Pre in 2009 had a magnetic charging / mount thing super similar to what the iPhone only finally got a couple of years ago.. Palm Pre also had the nice card-based UI for killing apps while multitasking -- again something basically iOS only finally got after many years of annoying versions that all sucked compared to the card based mode they use now. webOS used webapps -- which at the time were not great.. but now tons of apps are effectively just webapps. So yea, Palm Pre was uber ahead of its time...

I’m still upset with Leo Apotheker for killing WebOS at HP. It was our only real shot at a real 3rd platform that could have some legs. It’s hard to comprehend how much damage he was able to do in only 10 months as CEO.

+1

I can’t get over how long it took Apple to adopt the same charging mechanism. It’s depressing how good the Pre phones were and how long it’s taken to get anywhere near close to as good.

You just made me check if I still have my rooting-instructions on my website, from back in the day when I wanted a reference.

Turns out I do:

https://steve.fi/docs/pre/

It was a great phone, although I see on that page I said "not great, not terrible".

Mine was the Droid 4.

The only complaint I had about it was the MASSIVE bezels. They easily could have made the screen at least another inch bigger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_4#/media/File:Motorola_D...

Same. I would have considered buying this product and the phone (!!!!) if it would have had a sliding mechanism. I miss all the pre phones. Had 1, 2 and 3. I am not joking, I was faster typing on the pre than on my keyboard since I never learned to use all my fingers to type.

that and the Sharp Zaurus! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus#/media/File:Zauru...