Palm were busy at MWC running back to back demonstrations of what has to be the most talked about device of the year so we got to see a few of the features in action.

You can watch the official promotional video here but a better introduction probably comes from this 26 minute video of the MWC demo courtesy of precommunity.com [via MightyGadget]

If you don’t want to watch the whole video though, here are some impressions:

- There are some very nice “cloud connected” features – for example, you can give it your contact’s Facebook and Gmail details and it will scrape their personal information (email addresses, phone numbers etc) from those services. The practical upshot of that is that when your contacts update their information, the pre is automatically updated as well. Nice!

- It will display information from multiple calendar sources (i.e. Exchange and Google) in the same user interface and help you manage appointments on all of them. You’d be surprised how many smartphones don’t do that!

- It does feature multi touch for things like zooming in and out.

- All the apps are “live” all the time they’re running. When you want to move to another application you shrink the existing app to the background but it’s still there doing whatever it was doing before in a minimised fashion (reminds me very much of OSX)

- Taking yet another cue from Cupertino, it has on board accelerometers so it always knows which way is “up”. Tilting it sideways or flipping it upside down changes the screen orientation appropriately.

- The user experience seems very integrated. Case in point – it will seamlessly transfer an ongoing conversation between GTalk and SMS. It’s also easy to flip out to another application and back to your conversation.

- If there’s a downside it’s the keyboard, which is very small. Personally I found it hard to thumb accurately on it, but I’m used to an HTC Tytn which has much larger keys. Perhaps practice would improve this but I suspect I’d just get frustrated with anything more than “see you later” style texts.