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It’s been in 0202. Have you used wireless charging on your phone?
I observed my friends around me and found that less than half of them use wireless charging. Today, when wireless charging is not popular, it is hard to imagine that some people have used wireless charging mobile phones 10 years ago.
Recently, Lei Jun posted his favorite mobile phone more than ten years ago on Weibo and called it “magic” because it actually supports wireless charging.
The mobile phone mentioned by Lei Jun’s Weibo is Palm Pre, which is affectionately referred to as “fat pear” by domestic players. It was the flagship manufacturer of Palm Of Nirvana.
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As “the world’s first smartphone that supports wireless charging“, this phone will have its own highlights as soon as it is “born”. According to user Li Ang, although the wireless charging scheme adopted by Palm Pre is very similar to the scheme of WPC(Wireless Power Consortium), But it did not adopt the Qi wireless charging standard that was just released at the time.
If you want to experience wireless charging on the Palm Pre, you need to purchase a Palm Touchstone wireless charger and replace it with a dedicated back cover. Based on the wireless charging power of 5w at the time, it takes about 100 minutes to fully charge this phone.
But the reason why Palm Pre is impressive is more than that, and the webOS operating system it carries is even more impressive. The “basic operations” such as the card-type task background and swipe gesture navigation that we are already familiar with are actually the “leftovers” of webOS.
Palm Pre sets a touch gesture area in the lower area of the screen, and adds a lot of functions in this area. For example, a half swipe can return, and a full swipe can switch applications. In landscape mode, you can also scroll the page by sliding.
Rich gesture operations greatly improve human-computer interaction. Lenovo Music Phone, which was launched in 2010, may have borrowed from Palm. It also designed a gesture area at the bottom of the screen. Users can perform different operations by double-clicking, sliding, and other actions.
It is worth mentioning that the card-based multitasking concept pioneered by Palm Pre was later adopted by the iPhone. In a sense, Palm Pre is the mentor of iPhone is not an exaggeration.
In 2009, in addition to iPhone 3GS, the most popular smartphone was Palm Pre. The sleek pebbled body, the exquisite full keyboard design, and the 3.1-inch capacitive touch screen all make it attractive.
“Zhongguancun Online” initiated a poll. The question was “Who would you choose for Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS?” The result of the poll was obvious. Palm won an overwhelming victory with nearly 20,000 votes.
But this overwhelming