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Published:
8 Jan 2009
Market Status:
Released
US carrier availability:
Sprint - Available
    (Since Jun 2009 )
Verizon - Upcoming
Expected (unofficial):
Early 2010
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Palm Pre is the first phone to run on the new Web OS, designed to be powerful but easy to use. The Pre features a 3.1" multi-touch screen and a sliding full QWERTY keyboard. It is a CDMA/EV-DO smart phone with Wi-Fi, GPS, 3-megapixel camera with flash, stereo Bluetooth, microUSB, and 8GB of internal memory.

User rating
Good
8
out of 10
based on 47 reviews
Editor's rating
Excellent
9.9
out of 10
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Legendary. Quite a bit better than the iPhone 3GS IMO

15 Oct 2009 RottingOrange

9.7 out of 10

A great phone. Multitasking is very, VERY useful. The best browser I've ever used: I tested it's speed over WiFi vs. a iPhone 3GS, and it was faster on every single page I tested (Espeically after the 1.2 update. I did chrome.google.com, firefox.com, and newegg.com as benchmarks.) 

The keyboard completely surprised me. I expected it to be barely half decent, as it looks kind of small, but it is amazingly usable, the keys are quite clicky, and they are a hard rubber that really facilitates grip on each key. Very usable, in fact, I prefer it over most blackberries and definitely over the iPhone on-screen keyboard.

There are a few flaws though, the the callendar app is a bit sluggish sometimes, as is the messaging app every once in a while. And Facebook sync is a bit irritating sometims as well.

Overall, I'd give the phone 9.8/10. I've used the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and now the Palm Pre, and I'm happy to say the Pre is the best over all. :-) Plus Sprint's coverage, price, and service kicks AT&T's butt, PERIOD.





Multitasking (BIG PRO)
Slick user interface
Lots of apps
Very moddable/hackable, and Palm doesn't mind!
GPS app is nice.
A bit sluggish in a few apps.


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2 Oct 2009 Anonymous

9.7 out of 10

I bought this phone a month ago. I was trying to decide between this and an iphone. Glad I chose Palm over Apple. First the Sprint service is fast and responsive (3G is fast). I use Wifi where available. This phone is great to talk, text, email, sms and mms! The camera is pretty good too! The browser is the one best out there by far, with flash support coming soon it can only get better. Who could forget the multitask ability. The app store is small now but with web based apps it will be huge in the near future. Already some good ones in the store. Overall I love this phone.





MMS
Sprint 3G network
Multi-Tasking with cards
Speedy response
Music
GPS
Web Browser
WebOS is a future os and thanks to frequent Palm updates it is only getting better!
Could build have a better build quality.


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WebOS is amazing, Pre's hardware could have been better.

29 Sep 2009 lolthisismyname

9.7 out of 10

I've used all of the smartphone OSes except for Symbian. So far my favorites are WebOS and OS X. Android could be spectacular but it isn't (yet anyways) and Windows Mobile is pretty bad even on a great piece of hardware like the Pro2 (interested to see what they'll do with WinMo7).

I opted for WebOS because it's nowhere near as locked down as OS X, slicker than Android and WinMo, and my previous phone was a Palm Centro (this may be why I like the Pre's keyboard so much). At first, I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. The phone had dead pixels and the slider seemed a little rickety. The slider got worse as time progressed. I took it back to the Sprint store and got another and, so far, no problems. The slider is still a little rickety but it's much more solid than the last one and there are no dead pixels. Palm needs to work on their quality control, most people seem to say their Pre's are rock solid but there's still a pretty good chunk of people who end up with lemons and they seem to always come in batches (I've read reports of people getting 3 or 4 bad Pre's in a row). The reception could be better.

Also, the stock battery life really sucks. I ended up getting an extended battery (2600 mah from Seidio - it's great except for the fact that the cover screws up the flash at a distance. Seidio needs to fix this! I ended up blacking out the bottom half of the flash with industrial marker and it's not perfect but it works). With the extended battery life, the battery life is insane, I can stream Pandora all day during work no problem. With moderate use it lasts 2 days easy, 1 day with heavy use. The stock battery? Terrible. I strongly advise getting an extended if you go with the Pre.

Negative stuff aside, this is my ideal phone. It's pocket friendly, open, very slick, excellent web browsing, a good business phone and a fun multimedia phone. Once/if Palm rolls out Video recording and they get support for Flash on the web browser it will be the perfect OS. Once Palm fixes the quality control problems it will be one of the best phones (hardware wise) to date. Also the homebrew community is amazing and Palm seems like they're happy to have the community around.

Looking forward to what Moblin and Android can do, hope OS X becomes less locked down (and NOT on AT&T) and I really really hope Windows Mobile 7 will be the same leap in quality and efficiency that Windows 7 was. The more quality mobile OSes we have, the better. For now WebOS and Palm Pre is the combination for me. It may not be the right phone for you but it's almost perfect for me and based on what I see Palm doing and the homebrew community developing I believe the Pre will become my perfect phone for the foreseeable future. Here's to hoping Sprint doesn't find a way to mess it up.





WebOS! Slick interface, has multitasking and linux based.
QWERTY keyboard (I know it gets a lot of flack for being small but I actually traded in a Touch Pro2 for a Pre and prefer the Pre keyboard, to each his own).
Pretty good camera.
Solid web browser (still slightly buggy when rendering some pages but, next to Safari it's definitely the best)
Relatively fast, even when multitasking (except for Pandora, which seems to hog up a lot of resources)
Stock battery sucks
OS still kind of in its infancy (few official apps, only about 250 homebrew apps and the OS could be a little more efficient)
No video recording without using Homebrew stuff (Palm claims this will change but we'll see)
Poor quality control for hardware, you may end up with a crappy Pre, return it ASAP and demand you get a new one, repeat until you get a good Pre.
Antenna seems a bit weak on my Pre.


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