Palm Pre takes aim at iPhone, launches days before WWDC

RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!! Nylon string! It's all I have been waiting for! This is spectacular.

Seriously though. Being a verizon customer is a pain in the rump right now. I would love to break ties with them. I can't swallow all of the cancellation fees and then signing up with another carrier. I hope they get something decent in the near future.

Being a long time Palm user, I'm very interested in the Pre. But concerning choice, whichever one comes to Verizon first will be the winner. Until then I'll simply stick with my Treo 700p.


And no, I didn't know about the upgrade to nylon. Awesome.

Wow...I will be the first one to buy....



20 Palm Pre Videos to Learn
http://gossip99.blogspot.com/2009/05/palm-pre-images-videos.html

@Microdot

I'll run down my Pre's battery if I damn well want to and not have to sit back and let Apple tell me that because they don't know how to design a device that does what EVERY OTHER SMART PHONE ON THE MARKET HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO they are going to prevent apps like Pandora from running in the background streaming music as I play Bejeweled

The battery life issue is just a poor excuse... here is what I would have liked to have heard at the last iPod/iPhone press conference: 'remember, the iPhone/iPod Touch wasn't designed to run even minor non-iTunes background apps to begin with so the battery is not reflective of a device that can handle background apps, and now with those devices being out in the marketplace it is difficult to now enable/allow something that will ruin the user experience for a significant percentage of our existing customer base.'

Palm has the advantage of learning from Apple's mistakes too

And they are on Sprint, which has a better network than AT&T anyways. Not like that takes much, of course.

6 months to late for the me. I liked Sprint phone service for 10 years but there phones were just terrible. If the Pre showed up a year ago I might have stayed.

You know, I'm not sure what kind of crack they are smoking but over two years for the base contracts you save a $240 no more no less. You also can't use data while on the phone, so no looking stuff up on your conference call. The charge costs $70 and dose not come with the phone.
The thing that really kills it though is the mail in rebate bullshit. Let's see, I can go buy a 3g for 199, or I can give palm 299 and be forced to play roulette with a mail in rebate. Come on. If they where smart they would have priced the pre at 150 and thrown in the cool charger, they think they are allready apple.

So it really costs you $300 + contract to walk out of the store with one. Rebates should be illegal.

The argument about multi-tasking is a somewhat complex one that only appears simple on the surface to whatever side one is on about the issue.

Pro Multi-Tasking:
I've used backgrounder on my jailbroken iphone and it was a great solution for me. You could specify the apps you wanted to background automatically and then holding the home button while they were running would toggle the backgrounding on/off. It had no effect on the battery life that I ever noticed, so I can't really put much into that idea. Also, I've used other phones with older tech that did multi-tasking just fine as long as you didn't leave things running that you didn't need.

Anti Multi-Tasking:
If you did leave too many (or too large) programs running, it would begin really slow the phone down and, to a lesser degree, run the battery down. IMO, Apple is all about making technology that you don't have to think about. It does anything they can dream of making it do, but with little effort to the user. That is why they don't want to do this because most people, not us on a tech blog, won't even bother to notice if there are huge red dots showing running apps or whatever. So many times I go to work on someone else's computer and they have every app on the dock running and then wonder why it is so slow. Apple has learned that for (the average user) to have a good UI experience, you have to take away their control of it. Having done plenty of tech support, etc, I agree.

It's just too bad that, like the mac, there is a way in for the rest of us. Oh wait, there is - jailbreaking. I know, I know it's not official.

The Pre is marketing itself as "cheaper over the life of the contract"??

Sounds familiar.... like some Microsoft commercials maybe...

Well, people who want CHEAP will buy it I guess.

Enjoy being CHEAP! :)

i have access to Pre and played with it for a few hours.
My verdict? Pre-FAIL!

Even though i loved the look and functionality of the OS itself, the hardware itself is horrible. Form factor is nothing short of stupid. When you slide out the TINY keyboard, the phone starts to look like a rocking chair, and due to combination of the keyboard size/location and the shape of the phone itself it makes typing and holding the phone in your hands pretty hard.