Are you excited about the upcoming Palm Pre? Well, you'd better add a new phone number with Sprint, if you are really a gadget-freak, and can't wait until 2010 to use it. Because right now, Pre will be tied exclusively for Sprint until 2009.
Pre has been gathering a lot of praises of good reviews around the net, among others by Gizmodo which highlights the wonderful messaging menu window :
I think this phone's biggest appeal will be the central role the internet plays in the OS. The way it pulls data from various web services, and melds it into its own framework is top notch. I think being able to text, and gChat and send IMs over AIM all from the same window is such a benefit to the user to not have to switch windows for 3 different apps for messaging. And obviously, you won't be talking to someone on a bunch of different messengers at once, but over a period of a week, you might have convos over these different services, and it's good to keep track of all these interactions in one place.
Also check out seven features that make Pre wins in a boingboing blog, though I think multitouch is not really useful.. And also checks out rather political yet gripping opinion by Chris Seibold at applematters.com, on how Palm Pre makes Apple tremble.
Well, interesting point by Chris Seibold is this :
Why the sudden interest in suing Palm? Perhaps Apple is seeing the Pre as something to be scared of. That seems to be the most rational reason and the most troubling. The next iteration of the iPhone should leave the Pre looking like it was copying yesterdays news but if the Pre is ahead of the next iPhone then Apple has a serious problem. Palm has done some great stuff but most of the great stuff was back in the 90's. There's no way Palm should be able to out engineer and out market Apple (someone will have to do both to make a legit iPhone killer). The Pre already has strikes against it, all the threats do is make the Pre more desirable. It is the phone Apple doesn't want you to have.
Let's see how Palm Pre changed the smartphone industry. But, I think we forget one simple thing here. Smartphones with Qwerty vertical keypad are, practically speaking, for geeks. And how many geeks are there in the world, in term of percentage. I always see the cellphone rivalries and debacles through marketing lenses, and Palm is a languishing brand, while Apple, Nokia, and other big players are not easily indestructible, and can fight back. It will all depend on how well the Palm Pre delivers its product performance.
Main source : Engadget, and other Palm Pre articles scattered in the www.
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