Video: Hands-on with the Palm Pre

CNET.com's Bonnie Cha gets a first look at the Pre, Palm's most exciting new handset in years, in this video. While it boasts a gorgeous curvy chassis, a capacitive touchscreen and a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, it's Palm's new WebOS operating system that has been turning most heads at CES.

WebOS lets you have multiple apps open at the same time and is optimised for constant Web use. While it caters for Palm's traditional business audience with Exchange support, it also ties in your contacts from Web services, such as Google Mail and Facebook, to your mobile address book.

Bonnie mentions that the Pre will be available from Sprint -- obviously she's talking about the US market. The Pre should be available in the UK in the first half of this year, but network and contract details haven't yet been announced. For more info and pics, check out our Palm Pre photo story here.