If you missed at Ina Fried in a live broadcast of Palm press conference in Las Vegas at CES, here are some basic facts about the pre-(rhymes with glee). This touch-screen phone with slide out keyboard works as WebOS, Palm in the long-awaited new operating system, formerly code-named Nova.

Sprint will be the exclusive carrier for the pre-launch, which comes with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3.1-inch display, GPS, and 8GBs storage, among other things. Palm did not announce the price for pre-, but said it should be available some time in the first half of 2009.

Like the Apple iPhone, Palm has a pre-button when the slide out the keyboard shut. Everything on the screen can be controlled by gestures similar to those used on the iPhone, a homescreen four icons at the bottom of the most frequently used tasks such as telephone, e-mail and calendar.

Unlike the iPhone, it is above the hardware keyboard, and it seems that background notification system for applications. Apple promised to roll out the background kind of notification system, which allows applications to send notifications to users if they are different applications, but they are well past their deadline in September 2008 for this purpose.

We expect many details about the pre-as, for example, that it will cost, how the application will work on the distribution of cells, and multimedia support. Stay with us for them.