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Once again, Engadget helps us understand a little more about the complexities of the apparent upcoming legal issues between Apple and Palm regarding the multitouch technology with Apple has been trying to patent.

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1. A normal headphone jack

iPhone has been heckled for this one by enraged owners since it came out. The bottom line is you have to use Apple headphones. Palm Pre has a nice regular headphone jack that doesn’t discriminate.

2. A Wireless Charger

Wireless charging gizmos have been out for a little while now, but no smartphone has one other than the Pre. The charger is sold separately from Palm, but it’s definitely a nice feature. Just put your Pre on top and magnets line it up. Charge it for a few minutes while you’re at your computer, grab it, and go! No more pushing in buttons or worrying about breaking anything. This feature definitely kicks iPhone right in its electronic nads.

3. LED Flash on the Camera

It’s not like you’re planning on taking engagement photos with your cell phone, but having flash on your camera is definitely a plus, especially if your phone cranks out 3 Megapixel photos. This is one thing that iPhone straight up doesn’t have, and Pre happily does.

4. Removable Battery

Apple has their reasons for not making swappable batteries for the iPhone, but as anyone who has ever owned an iPod, iPhone, or iAnything knows, it sucks to have to ship your stuff back so Apple can fix the battery. Plus, it’s always nice to have a spare. Palm is known for having good battery life, and it is expected that the Pre will have some added juice packed into the battery.

5. Size and Fit

Pre is smaller than iPhone when closed, and curved gently to fit your hand. It feels great, is small, but not too small, kind of makes the iPhone look like a cordless from the 80s in comparison. Of course, opinions will vary on which is more beautiful, but at the same screen resolution, Palm Pre managed to pack its smartphone into a smaller space.

The Palm Pre phone uses finger-flicking and pinching technology that is very similar to the iPhone’s. If Apple decides that any of these similarities are direct rip-offs of its own technology, it will most likely sue.

“As long as they don’t rip off our IP,” said Tim Cook, COO of Apple.  “If they do, we’re going to go after any of them that does.”

When using the Palm Pre, users can pinch their fingers together to zoom out, and can spread their fingers apart to zoom in, simulating digging through 3D content. This very cool feature is also possible on the iPhone. It remains to be seen if Apple will try to claim that Palm took this technology from them, or if they developed it their on their own before Apple could patent it.

Here  it is, Palm’s demo of the new Palm Pre smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2009.

Phones with email, web, photos, and music are nothing new. So what would a phone have to do to amaze you?

What if it could make all these things work together, do multiple things at once, transform the way you manage your time, or bring your information together in a totally new way?

What if it did things you never knew a phone could do, and was designed to feel like no phone you’ve ever seen before?

Wouldn’t that be amazing?

The Palm Pre smartphone.

While smartphones, whether touch screen or QUERTY keyboard equipped (or both), seem to be coming out faster than rhymes from Ludacris’s mouth these days, the Palm Pre managed to shake the ground months before it will debut on store shelves. PC Magazine called it “CES 2009’s Hottest Product,” and we call it the pinnacle of smartphone technology.

Stay tuned for more information as the Palm Pre launch gets closer and closer. We’ll be covering this little guy every step of the way.