It is always good when you know your phone is great, assuming your phone is a Palm Pre, but you feel a lot better when different publications also see the Pre as a great device. Last time Popular Science called the Pre “A Socially Skilled Phone” on their Best of What’s New Awards 2009 on the Gadgets Category.

As you all know, Popular Science is not the first to award the Pre as one of the best of this year. Recently, Consumer Reports said the Palm Pre is one of the best products on their list for the year 2009. And PCWorld ranked the first webOS smartphone on the 14th place on “PC World Top 100″ best products of the year.

PopularMechanics 2009 Breakthrough Awards named the Palm Pre as one of their 10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009 on their November issue. The Pre was grouped with some other innovative products. Below you’ll read what Popular Mechanics had to say about the Pre:

The Palm Pre (which costs $200 with a contract from Sprint) doesn’t break ground with any one engineering advance. Instead, it sets a new standard by putting all the best available technologies together. Most cellphones—even high-end ones—excel at some tasks, while utterly ignoring others. The Palm Pre’s features read like a gadget geek’s wish list: optional inductive charging, a full keyboard, the ability to sync with iTunes—and it can run multiple applications at once. Sometimes more is more.

Of course that at time of this posting, the price for the Palm Pre is not $200, and let’s not forget that iTunes sync is still broken, and Pre owners might never get it back.