Palm has debuted it’s new device today during a keynote at CES. The Palm Pre. A multi touch display phone with a 3.1 inch 320×480 resolution, EV-DO, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, A2DP and 8 gigs of on-board flash storage. The interesting thing about the face is that the touch sensitivity runs the all the way down and around the lone silver center button occupying the front. The lower touch area is there for gestures. While a full albeit tight qwerty keyboard slides from behind the touchy display. The Phone has Texas Instruments new OMAP CPU powering their all new webOS device platform. The webOS according to Palm supplies laptop power and speed, for some fancy smooth transitions and app switching a-la a deck of cards. The phone houses a 3MP camera with LED flash, microUSB and the usual 3.5mm audio jack. Here is what to write home about: wireless charging. You read it, wireless. Place the phone on it’s charging base “the touchstone” and charge away.

Sprint will offer the phone exclusively in the first half of ‘09. Cost: no mention as of yet.

News of this device was enough to wake Palm’s stock from it’s comatose state and rise 35% today. I would say they have generated some excitement and enthusiasm.

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