Palm unveils new webOS platform

Palm has unveiled a new mobile and PC platform, WebOS, which will feature first on Palm’s next handset the Palm Pre.

Palm’s aim with webOS is to amalgamate a PC, phone, information and calendars into one device, which is constantly updating and linking relevant information together by staying connected to the internet 24/7.

WebOS will interlink email accounts and contacts with an application named Palm Synergy. 

Synergy recognises that if you have the same contact in more than one of your email accounts, it will not duplicate their information when gathering contact details onto your phone.

The platform will also display communication with a person as an ongoing conversation window, even if the conversation began in IM but moved to text or email.  This is intended to help the user track their conversations and remember who said what.

Palm also boasts that webOS offers greater flexibility and is less obtrusive than other phone platforms by displaying text and email alerts on a scrolling bar, which allows you to read it when you want to and not lose your train of thought.

Palm also revealed that the interface can be re-arranged simply by dragging and dropping, and once finished with an activity you just simply throw it away.