One thing that really struck me today was hearing Palm’s VP of design answer a question about syncing by saying the Pre isn’t designed to have to sync to a PC, it just grabs all the relevant info from a users’ social networks, email/Exchange accounts and so on.

I’ve been trying to tell people that this is the kind of “sync” that people really want for years – not another software management and user behavior layer that has commonly been assumed as a “need” for mobile devices.

The Pre might finally make a lot of people “get it” in terms of smartphones being able to be the center of one’s mobile life.

I am going to have to have to figure out how to do a web server on the Pre. Because the UI alone is enough for me to want to move to it (and I am not going back to conventional hosting).

I wonder on the microformat support. There’s considerable room for Palm to push this standard way out in the front of web development and mobile access.