Well what’d you know, Palm has garnered itself a nice award from the boys at PopularMechanics. That’s right, the Pre has been ranked among the “Most Brilliant Products of 2009.” It is one of the only two gadgets to make the list. BTW if you don’t read PopularMechanics you should pick yourself up a subscription.

The Palm Pre (which costs $200 with a contract from Sprint) doesn’t break ground with any one engineering advance. Instead, it sets a new standard by putting all the best available technologies together. Most cellphones—even high-end ones—excel at some tasks, while utterly ignoring others. The Palm Pre’s features read like a gadget geek’s wish list: optional inductive charging, a full keyboard, the ability to sync with iTunes—and it can run multiple applications at once. Sometimes more is more.

So if you haven’t gotten a Pre yet, this might be another reason to get one.

VIA: PopularMechanics!

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