Classic is a paid application selling for $29.99 on the Palm Pre App Catalog at the moment. It allows you to run a vast choice of applications that were developed for the earlier Palm OS. Apps that are years old can be run pretty smoothly on Classic on your Palm Pre. This is really useful if you were a previous Palm handheld owner and had already downloaded or purchased applications. Palm had a healthy ecosystem of applications, so you can find plenty of old apps that can be quite useful. 

There are also several good games available, if you can’t wait to start gaming on your Pre. The apps running on Classic can feel a little cramped at first, because Classic overlays a set of older Palm controls on the apps. However, since the earlier apps were all developed for devices which much smaller screen sizes, the flow and interfaces aren’t as compromised as one might expect. Classic runs these applications pretty smoothly, without any noticeable lag.