http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/ Engadget Comments for Palm Pre's Touchstone charger requires matte, soft-touch battery cover http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/
I was hoping there would be a grip option.]]>Feb 19th 2009 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/Feb 19th 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/Feb 19th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/Feb 19th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/
Also I wouldn't be worried about iPods and such, if they are worth their salt they won't be effected. Not to mention most iPods and any small storage device is flash now anyways.]]>Feb 19th 2009 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/
Don't worry, the magnets in this thing wont be CLOSE to strong enough to harm an HDD. Any modern hard drive is very very well shielded and it takes a very strong magnet to harm the data on it. I've actually TRIED to erase hard drives with an old tape degaussing machine (strong electro magnet) and was unsuccessful every time.

I wouldn't worry about CC's either actually. But I don't really know as much about them, or how much magnet it takes to harm them. I have to imagine this was taken into consideration by Palm though.]]>Feb 19th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/
Love the matte finish, I bought a euro-version matte battery cover for my Touch Pro because I hated the gloss so much. Matte soft touch is better in EVERY way functionally, and in my opinion it looks better too, but of course that part is an opinion. But functionally, i challenge anyone to come up with a reason gloss is better.]]>Feb 19th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/Feb 19th 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/
Are you as a buyer going to be given the option to either select the matte or the glossy from the scratch?
Or would you be forced to get the phone with glossy cover as the default, and then having to get the matte cover as an optional accesory that you have to purchase separately?]]>Feb 24th 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/palm-pres-touchstone-charger-requires-matte-soft-touch-battery/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai6OM8ikeo0&fmt=22#t=2m04s]]>Mar 14th 2009 7:33PM