Palm^® Touchstone^™ Technology

Palm® Touchstone™ Technology provides a simpler way for your phone to interact with other Palm accessories and provides a new level of functionality and convenience. For instance, the new Palm Touchstone Charging Dock allows connectionless charging of your Palm Pre™ phone.

Touchstone is based on inductive technology. Inductive coils inside the Touchstone Charging Dock generate a small, oscillating electromagnetic field and transmit it through the Touchstone Back Cover on your Palm Pre. This allows you to charge your Pre without connecting a wire directly to the phone.

As you set your Pre on the Charging Dock, it magnetically snaps into place in portrait or landscape mode, and charging begins. It’s easier, more convenient, and it charges your Pre in about the same amount of time as plugging it into a standard power charger.

Touchstone capabilities

Touchstone Technology intelligently communicates with Pre and the Palm webOS™ platform and enables Palm Accessories to provide a new level of functionality. The Touchstone Charging Dock leverages Touchstone Technology in several unique ways:

• Place your phone on the Charging Dock when you're on a call and its speakerphone automatically turns on.¹


• Pick your phone up from the dock while you're on speakerphone and the conversation is automatically transferred back to the phone.¹


• For incoming phone calls, simply pick up the phone from the Charging Dock and it answers automatically, without having to tap the screen.


• When the phone is not in use Nightstand mode displays the time and incoming notifications.

What do I need to use Palm Touchstone Technology?

• Touchstone Charging Dock


• Touchstone Back Cover


• International Power Charger

Your Palm Pre comes with a Power Charger. The Charging Dock and Back Cover must be purchased separately.

How are Touchstone accessories sold?

The Touchstone Charging Dock and Touchstone Back Cover can be purchased as a bundle or purchased individually. The Charging Dock requires the Back Cover to work, therefore purchasing the bundle is recommended.

Additional Charging Docks may be purchased to be placed in multiple locations in your home or office. Each additional Charging Dock requires its own Power Charger (sold separately).