Thursday June 04, 2009
Thursday June 04, 2009 Based on some of the earliest reviews the Palm Pre could be the iPhone killer. I think we all know that the iPhone has its faults e.g. not been able to run multiple applications at the one time and the poor quality of its camera and no video capability.
Looks like the Palm Pre is very cool and functional. I like access to a QWERTY keyboard on a smartphone and in my opinion is the big let down of the iPhone, especially for the corporate user. Have you ever tried to write an email while walking or on a bus with an iPhone or to do it one handed? Good luck.
Interesting that the Pre runs Palm's new webOS and not MS for mobile, which has the recent trend for Palm. I carent wait to get my hands on one.
Here are some first reviews of the Pre:
Walt Mossberg, Wall
Street Journal:
"It’s a beautiful, innovative and versatile hand-held
computer that’s fully in the iPhone’s class. It’s
called the Pre, and it comes from Palm, the company that pioneered
the hand-held computer in the 1990s."
David Pogue, New
York Times:
"The Pre, which goes on sale Saturday, is an elegant, joyous,
multitouch smartphone; it’s the iPhone remixed. "
Sinead Carew, Reuters:
"Pre is an attractive alternative but it remains to be seen if
consumers have enough patience for its quirks."
Joshua Topolsky, Engadget:
"To put it simply, the Pre is a great phone,and we don't feel any hesitation saying that. Is it a perfect
phone? Hell no. Does its OS need work? Definitely. But are any of
the detracting factors here big enough to not recommend it?
Absolutely not."
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Kirk,
I'm not so sure, the world again needs a different PDA OS, that's my main concern... I've been a Treo and before that Palm IIIx et.al. user for nearly a decade, but switched to the iPhone (private phone) and the corporate Nokia E71. As much as I HATE the GUI and the structure of the E71 (symbian sucks in my opinion, mostly from it's structure side), I do believe, that Android will be the way to go. Why should app developpers port their apps to 4 or 5 different platforms? (iPhone, Symbian, Android, WebOS, Java), if that could be done with less?
You#re right, having a goog quertz or querty keyboard is a big plus. Having good apps also. The camera for example on the E71 is worse, much more worse then the one on the iPhone.
For me, the biggest disadvantage of the iPhone is its battery! Then comes the "no background app", and then at the third position comes the keyboard.
So, I guess, we will have to wait and see, how much market share the Pre can gain. It will be on the market nearly at the same time as the next gen iPhone, and that will have better battery and background apps... So I'm not at all convinced, that the Pre will make a really big impact. Having choosen iTunes as the platform for digital video and music on the Pre is a plus, but why not adding an appStore like feature?
So, let's wait and see!
Matthias
Posted by Matthias Pfützner on June 04, 2009 at 09:29 PM EST #
Yep good comments. I think the previous Palm OS for smartphones was average and that is why they switched to MS. However, I think we agree that Palm was the leader back in the Palm Pilot days and leads the PDA revolution. Looks like based on the early reviews they may have got their act together when it comes to smartphones. I have a Pam Treo Pro (new one) and I like the phone but MS is average.. especially email. I think the Pre may make have an impact.. but has some baggage to overcome especially in smartphones. Kirk
Posted by Kirk on June 05, 2009 at 05:51 PM EST #