Palm Pre Review

I have owned the Pre for a couple of weeks, and there are some great features that make this a standout phone.

1) Cards – Having multiple apps open saves a lot of time and moving through the most used is simple.

2) Keyboard – Though small, it doesn’t take long to get used to typing on it.

3) Facebook / Email integration – Importing pictures and info from Facebook is great, and having all of your email accounts viewable at one time is very convenient.

4) Touchstone – How cool is that?

On the negative side, battery life is not long, you have to charge each day, but I did that anyway. Also, no video camera, but that may come in a future software update.

All in all, as an alternative to the iPhone, with a much better plan, this is a great phone to have.

Rating: 8 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

Before you buy any phone think long and hard. Do you want a phone that is old tech (iPhone) and the only reason you buy it is because your friends have one. Or do you want to be the first one with a phone that will impress your friends and that will more than likely be the standard after people realize its functionality. When the Palm Pre was released, it was only meant for business persons. The main reason there were complaints because the phone was bought by people who did not need the Pre’s functionality and expected an iPhone feel. Do not get me wrong, when iPhone made the scene they brought a lot to the table. Now, however, they have not progressed and they have locked out possible functionality because of greed. It reminds me when I was a PC guy (ever since I finished with the Vic 20 and Commodore 64) but then I changed to Mac. Win 7 was the last Windows operating system I used because it is just crap (even though more people use Windows does not mean it is good – Mac is definitely better now). I still use XP for some of my older programs. Just like the iPhone was good then but now it just does not meet the standard (more like a teenager’s phone now). If you are still using the iPhone, then you’re just letting life pass you by. Once the Palm Pre gets the Flash 10 working on the phone, then it will be more of a dual purpose professional/teenager phone. I can see teenagers playing Flash games on the Pre while also listening to music, looking at Flash trailers of movies while they’re out with their friends to see what they will watch after a test/dinner, etc. I speculate that once Flash hits the mobile pda/netbook/phone market, Palm Pre will surely be the winner. The Droid will run Flash just like the WinMo phones – very, very slow if you’re multitasking Flash. See example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a47Z-A81HOU. If they used the Droid phone to show off Flash the same way – the film would have been laughable (Droid does semi multitasking and definitely cannot multitask resource hog programs like Flash). Droid definitely would have either crashed or your system would start to look like it is in slow mo. If you have a WinMo phone you probably know what I mean when I say slow mo. If you want a very good phone, then get a Palm Pre because in the near future I suspect everyone else will be using the Pre if they can in spite of the misinformation about the phone. PS: Do not look at megapixels when you are deciding on your phone pic, 3 vs. 5 megapixels will not produce a difference. If you want great pictures then get an SLR camera not a camera phone. And if you want great video get an HD camcorder instead of using your phone. Soon Palm Pre will be able to get video recording for your YouTube pages. Android is just WinMo with a different name (hefty, slow and truly untested on its multitasking statement but we will see it fall flat when tested with Flash this year).

The only reason the iPhone has been around is because it is a phone built around teenager habits with a little business function in it. If you look at WebOS, then you will see that it is a better match for netbooks. Once Flash comes out the battery drain that it will produce on the Google OS will make it a weaker candidate for the netbook market versus WebOS. Also once Flash comes out for the Palm Pre, we will see that Palm will be able to take a good piece of the teenager iPhone market with free Flash games instead of paid for iPhone apps. The future is here and WebOS is definitely the winner. Like I said Android is just WinMo with a different name. You guys need to test the true power comparison of the phone. I am not talking about processor power. Everybody knows that Mac can startup, shutdown faster than the comparable PC with similar HDD, ram, video card, and processor. The OS is the true decider of speed and functionality. Please test Flash running in multiple applications (Pre vs. Droid vs. WinMo). That will give you true insight. Flash dominates the media market and if the advertising market wants more viewer time then they need to push for more Flash on phones. Especially the Palm Pre phone since it is the best suited phone for the demands of Flash currently. But let’s see what the test shows.

PS: If you guys are truly at the tech forefront then you will see that this as a definite task that needs to be performed.

Rating: 10 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.