This has got to be the craziest smartphone feature that I have read about. I am not entirely sure if it’s really implemented on the Palm Pre but here goes.

As far as PalmPreBlog is concerned, location awareness is a standard feature that will be available on the Palm Pre. What exactly is being location aware for the Palm Pre?

Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners invested 20% of his private equity fund in Palm. He has talked about the amazing feature of the Palm Pre. He claims that the device does things for you, sort of like a personal assistant/tourist guide kind of thing.

Everyday, the Palm Pre will take a look at the information you have put into the device and consolidate information regarding those data which you will be able to use. The device is said to automatically download information  for things that you will be doing for that particular day, such as persons, places and organizations that you intend to visit. Neat! But no detailed mention of how it will exactly work.

Using data from the device’s GPS, clock and calendar, the Palm Pre will be able to know that you’re going to be late. It relies on the calendar, the indicated time of the event you’re supposed to go to and the distance between your current location and your destination. The Pre will calculate how late you are going to be and e-mail involved parties accordingly. Again, tt doesn’t exactly explain how the data between the GPS, clock, calendar and e-mail entries are interconnected, I guess that is Palm’s problem to implement.

Crazy features! I hope the Palm Pre will live up to its hype and introduce new things into the smartphone world. The automated stuff is pretty scary though, don’t you think? Hopefully there would be some sort of off switch for when you don’t want to use it.

[via PalmPreBlog]