Okay, I’m finally jealous of another phone. Palm just announced the Palm Pre and it’s clear they’ve done their homework. The Pre is everything you’ve come to expect from a sophisticated mobile device – easy access to communication, media, apps and web in a touch interface – but refines it by improving the human-machine interactions and the promise of technology doing more heavy lifting to organize your information.

Things like:

• Removing the (annoying) restriction of running one app at a time,
• Replacing buggy virtual keyboards with a slide-out, hard keyboard
• Unifiying IM and SMS-based chatting
• Partnering with Microsoft, Facebook and Google to unify your inbox, contact entries and calendar information

And more…

More details and pics available on the Palm Pre site