Comments on: Apple iPhone vs. Palm Pre: AT&T Employee Talking Points Leaked

By: hamid

hamid — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:16:04 +0000

the person did great unjustice to Palm Pre by writing about it without testing.
I have a Palm Pre as well as an iPhone. I’ll be keeping the iPhone because of the lack of multiple language support on Pre but that doesn’t take away from the good work that folks at Pre have done. Here are some great features:
- While the author of this blog calls the UI touchscreen gestures not intuitive, that is by far the sweetest thing about this device. The ability to go back and forth using a partial (half the width of the device) left or right finger swipe, switching from one app to another using a complete left or right finger swipe, ability to throw away the unneeded apps out towards top….these are completely missing in iPhone. It make dealing with the device an easy and wonderful experience; I’ll definitely miss that.
- The webOS is revolutionary. Palm has gotten its life support to last another decade. Now they have the platform to launch new devices. The multitasking is seamless, error free (for the most part), and the phone rarely crashes.
- The keyboard is serviceable, not the best. I suspect that people with large or stubby fingertips will not have fun typing on this.
- The screen resolution is better than iPhone’s in several aspects including the google maps readability.
- The synergy feature is very good however sometimes it can be annoying(e.g. may add duplicate entries for the same contact).

Overall, the phone is great in terms of software. I would like it to excel and succeed because the competition is always good for us – the consumers.

My qualms are mainly about the hardware and a couple of other things namely:
- Minimum support for other languages (besides the English and Spanish). This is a huge item for me and this is also a reason why I have to get iPhone. It cannot read the webpages that I most frequently visit. I tend to not browse internet at work and this is why I got a Pre but that was not achieved. I’m sure the support will come in time but it’ll be a couple of years before any real language support.
- The apps are very few and the ones that are there (either on App Catalog or with the device) are not as polished. Examples: the facebook interface lacks several simple details (e.g. be able to look at the comments on a post); the email has no landscape mode.
- The phone itself feels too plasticky. I would like something more sturdy like some of the HTC phones.
- Due to the sliding keyboard, you can almost feel that the top part (the one with screen) starts to swivel a bit.
- The power switch is not in the best location and is a bit of a let-down since you have to press it (instead of the center button) to get the phone out of stand-by. The charging port is flimsy with a clunky cover.
- I think a little larger screen will definitely give more real estate for reading email, texts, and web pages.
- I was disappointed with the phone function and the speaker volume as well…

Overall, it is a great phone and I am sure that in a year or two, they’ll have better hardware, improved casing, and enhanced OS to continue building on this great project called the Pre…

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:02:49 +0000

I tested the palm pre yesterday, I can say I did not like the keyboard at all… Typing on it was horrible I would hit two if not three keys at a time. Based on this alone I would buy the Iphone.

By: zsu zsu petals

zsu zsu petals — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:34:11 +0000

What about just having a hard keyboard as opposed to iphone oversensitive screen keyboard – NO ONE CAN TYPE ON THAT THING WITHOUT MAKING A MISTAKE AT LEAST 3 TIMES FOR EVERY TEXT!!!

By: zsu zsu petals

zsu zsu petals — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:31:13 +0000

AWESOME!!!

By: zsu zsu petals

zsu zsu petals — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:30:12 +0000

see – iphone owner cant spell.

By: zsu zsu petals

zsu zsu petals — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:29:11 +0000

I had a treo and it was amazing. The iphone is made for a 13 year old that has a billion dollars. The app store has really important apps like “egg timer” app and “the fart game”. Palm is great for the person that actually has a life and perhaps even deals in the world of business. I cant wait to see the pre. Iphones new feature – a compass??? Who am I – Magellan? Thats like a hotel whose ameneties are “in room phone and air conditioning”. Check out the pre!!!!!

By: bella

bella — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:09:59 +0000

My boss just got me the Palm Pre and My boyfriend and I are extremely excited to start playing with it.

By: neno

neno — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:19:19 +0000

i think the iphone is gonna pwn on the 3.0 os

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:25:53 +0000

I think the Pre is great can do 14 applications at ONE time. Simply put it is A-W-E-S-O-M-E. View is better than my TV.

By: Ajrriver

Ajrriver — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:12:40 +0000

I have seen the Palm Pre and its aaaaweeesooomeeee!!!! Deffinetly will kick ATT’s Iphne!!! Iphone RIP!!!

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By: unwired

unwired — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:23:47 +0000

Bonnie Cha over at CNET defends sprint http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10225267-1.html

By: KayJayWhy

KayJayWhy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:00:24 +0000

No mention of visual voicemail? Does that mean the Pre will have it? Or am I out of the loop and all smartphones have it now?

By: tamtam

tamtam — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:47:07 +0000

My boyfriend’s mentioned the Palm Pre a couple of times, but I love my iPhone so I haven’t listened. Honestly, I would never have paid any attention at all before I saw this AT&T memo, but now the Pre is worth a look, especially if AT&T’s scared. I came back here to post after reading a few items at precentral.net, and while most of what the memo says is true AT&T left out a whole lot of really cool features. Also, my service with AT&T kind of sucks. This just may backfire for them.

By: unwired

unwired — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:48:21 +0000

Few details are known at this point how long Sprint has exclusivity of the Palm Pre, but Palm has announced that the phone will be available both to other carriers and internationally with GSM version. So for at least (I’m guessing) 6 months that argument will hold.

Most of the other items on AT&T’s list are superfluous. Videos taken of the phone in action show that the interface is pretty darned intuitive, and the card concept/true multitasking can’t be touched by any other device today. Throw synergy into the mix and its a pretty sweet platform. Additionally, indication from developers who have been invited to receive the SDK are very encouraging, so useful applications will be available sooner than expected.

I don’t recall AT&T “leaking” internal memos of this type with any other smartphone previously released, which means they are finally starting to pay attention, and are more than a bit concerned.

Isn’t competition great? :)

By: JORGE

JORGE — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:30:02 +0000

Person who made the comparative table doesn’t know enough about the pre… in other hand the pre is not in sale yet… so he can say anything.

What about multitask processor?
What about the millions of applications running in palm os platform?
What abou the manage of office files?.
What about the sync of data?
What abou the pc/mac interface?
What about the cammera and flash?

tread, think.. and the spoke….