Done by Pre Community, Palm has demonstrated Pre’s mobile web browser, showing its full web capability and multiple browser process. While the staff is able to open multiple websites at the same time, it does cause the Palm Pre to slow down, probably due to the amount of the memory and cpu usage in the background. Watch both videos here (You can watch in High Quality directly by clicking on the HQ in the video player).
Start up the browser and as well as the address bar – which you can begin typing in without needing to tap into it – there’s also a page full of bookmarks. Each is represented by a thumbnail of the page rather than just the URL. Load times – over WiFi, rather than Vodafone Spain’s 3G network – were good, with the full range of pinch zooming and double-tap zooming (which automatically zooms into a column). The rep doing the demo couldn’t tell us whether – or how – you’ll be able to save images from webpages, but he did show the “Share” feature which adds a hyperlink and thumbnail image to a new email, ready to be sent to a friend or colleague.
