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?
