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Pre is super, but not an iPhone killer
commentsPosted on 10 June 2009 by Brian Hart
Placing my Pre and iPhone side by side, it’s admittedly a tough choice as to which one will be my prized horse in the stable. Both are tremendous smartphones in their own right, but as fantastic as the Pre is, it’s playing catch-up with the iPhone, particularly as Apple announces the new iPhone 3G S. Yet the Pre has made Palm a player again, giving a tired company with tired smartphone designs an impressive makeover.
An article by Hiawatha Bray of The Boston Globe sums up a major difference between the iPhone and the Pre:
But the Pre is no iPhone. Fire it up, and you’re not sure what to do next. The most impressive feature of the iPhone is that you know how to use it the moment you switch it on. Its on-screen icons are self-explanatory, and respond just as you’d expect.
I agree that the Pre is a little less intuitive than the iPhone, but after spending some time with the Pre, it’s features and navigation start to become more familiar and the learning curve is fairly short. It may not be an iPhone killer, but the Palm Pre is still extremely exciting all the same. It is Palm’s standard for Palm loyalists and fans to rally around and it’s a great smartphone for Palm to stage a comeback. What do you think?
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I am so sick of people comparing the Pre to the iPhone, if you ask me (and you did) it is a lazy comparison.
Palm was making touch screen phones when Apple was still running DOS as its main OS on computers! So Apple is the one catching up not the other way around. Yeah the iPhone is a great multi-media device but as a phone it sucks! And just because there have been a lot of iPhones sold does not make it great either, at one point in time half the world thought the earth was flat!
A better and more worthy comparison would be between the HTC Touch Pro 2 and the Pre, both great phones and both running on OS created by companies that know a thing or two about telecommunication!
I think the hardest thing for a company to do is to stay innovative and continue to surf the wave of success. I think that Palm grew complacent, lost some talent, suffered engineering writer’s block, or something… whatever it was, they rested on their laurels for a while and the smartphone world started to pass them by. The good thing is that the iPhone, Android, Pre with webOS, etc. will make the smartphone world better for all of us.
Good point!