Well, last week we saw Macworld and CES with, what I had hoped, lots of new tech and goodies for the gadget freak in me, but in reality I found the keynote for Apple almost dull without Steve Jobs delivery and a real lack of anything that was going to get me exciting for what after all was the end of an era, the last Macworld. On the other hand at CES, Palm's keynote, delivered by former Apple man Jon Rubinstein, had me glued to my Mac's screen hanging on his every word as if he had me in some sort of trance and this was first time I'd seen a true "smart phone". Jon Rubinstein has definitely got what it takes to turn Palm around, and by the looks of it he's also got "the" product to do it with. I was quite blown away with how the Palm Pre OS works and what it could do for me - make my life simple. The whole concept behind the way it brings all your information together, working in synergy, looks like it has been well thought out, and to be honest, it's about time mobile phone makers started thinking out side the box and started creating and delivering what we actually need to communicate and access our information. By the looks of it, Palm have grasped this concept better that the rest and produced an easy to use interface that's fun and does what you need it to do, and that is communicate and sync with everything. I'm looking forward to some real world hands on to see if it lives up to the job - I hope it does.

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