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1. Bought Pre on Day 1, now swapping to Samsung Moment
16 Nov 2009 by jbholt1
66.7%6.7out of 10
My other half and I got our Pre's the day they came out. This phone was over-hyped in my opinion. It's slow. That's my biggest annoyance with it. I would be trying to make a call and I'm wondering what the hell it's doing, so I hit the on-screen phone button again. Guess what? It just hung up the call that I was starting! I wanted to pull my hair out over that. Every application is slow except the web. It had a terrific web browser. It was faster than any other mobile browser I have used. Other than that, I got to where I hated this phone. Calendar is terrible. It is very slow. If you had to go to a date in the future (or even the next day for that matter), it would take probably five seconds with a blank calendar before it would start showing the events for that day. (That comes back to it being slow.) The calendar was terrible in other ways too, such as you could only snooze the appts for 5 minutes. What good is that?? Palm updated this four times in the time I had it and I saw no performance increase. I even did hard resets several times to make sure that I wasn't doing something to slow it down. I don't see how this phone can get such high ratings when they rate the Samsung Moment so low. I have been using that for a week and it is awesome. Apps are up as soon as you click them, the camera is awesome, the speakerphone is very loud, keyboard is great, AMOLED display, 800 MHz processor, etc.. The only thing the Pre is better at is looks. The Pre is much thinner and smaller. I guess that all people care about.
-Nice design
-Nice screen
-Good size
-Very good browser, if not the best mobile browser
-Decent Camera
-Uses standard micro USB
-Touchstone charger (You have to buy it for $70 though)-Slow!!
-Updated four times, still slow!
-Bad build quality. It got better over time and so Sprint replaced mine, but the slider was still shaky. I bought this phone on day 1.
-Very few apps, apps that are available are mostly useless
-You have to pay extra for Touchstone charger
-Calendar not very good. Only offers a 5 minute snooze for reminders that pop up?!
-Fragile
-Keyboard
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2. Comeback to "comeback to "conflict of interest""
10 Nov 2009 by Tommy
10%1out of 10
Quote: "I just wanted to make a post to the "conflict of interest" guy. Just a little FYI, on the bottom where it says "PHONE ARENA NETWORK: WEBOS ARENA, ANDROID ARENA" Those are just links to go to the "web os arena site" stop freaking out idiot!................................................................................................... "
At the bottom of webosarena.com, it says: "This site is part of the PhoneArena network"
If you cannot see the conflict of interest here (a review site, which also run a spesific os site), you don't know the meaning of the saying "conflict of interest".
To refrase it: Lets picture a fictive website called mobiledevicereviews.com. They also run a website called theincredibleiphoneosx.com.
Would you say there would be no conflict of interest if the mobiledevicereviews.com gave iPhone (running osx) a 10/10, saying it is the best phone in the world (and giving poor reasons for it too, as i described about palm pre). Mobiledevicereviews would not be a neutral part, if they are involved with a spesific party in which they review. That is called a conflict of interest.
It is funny, how the whole review about palm pre has "Jumped" over the parts where it is at best only mediocre, like the camera, video, screen size, external speakers, etc. Also funny, how when referring to multitouch, he shows how the bottom meny can be dragged up and down the screen, telling how cool isn't that..? When did moving a bottom meny make a phone good at all? It would be like giving the Jet a plus for having a cube meny which is nothing but annoying, just because it looks cool the first time you see it. Un-nessesary features would AT BEST be forgiven for being there in the first place.
phonearena.com, please reconsider your review. I would like the russian to review the phone instead, he seems to be (although not completely) less biased about the various phones.
proscons
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3. comeback to "conflict of interest"
10 Nov 2009 by comeback to "conflict of interest"
90%9out of 10
I just wanted to make a post to the "conflict of interest" guy. Just a little FYI, on the bottom where it says "PHONE ARENA NETWORK: WEBOS ARENA, ANDROID ARENA" Those are just links to go to the "web os arena site" stop freaking out **!...................................................................................................
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4. CONFLICT OF INTEREST
9 Nov 2009 by tommy
10%1out of 10
Seriously, i thaught phonearena was one of the best mobile review websites in existence, until i suddenly found out PALM PRE, had jumped to a sudden 1. place in top overall phone, with an 9.9 SCORE overnight?!?! Still it doesn't participate in any of the other top 5 categories like the previous best and secound best phones, iPhone and Omnia HD.
Readers review gives this phone a whopping 2.0 lower score than that of the phonearena reviewer.
I mean, what is the review'er thinking? A totally shallow and biased review, I was really really (!) dissappointed. To make an example of the bias, the reviewer mentions in the video that "none of this is extremely different from what we saw before, but its nice to see this in a different phone that is not made by apple". Nuff said. He hasn't tried 3GS either, probably not omnia HD either at the time of the review. I would say a 10 out of 10 would mean the cellphone is perfect, though he, even with mild excuses, mentioned several flaws with the phone. He also based much of the positive with features not yet available on the phone (like apps). Right, then omnia HD is the best phone yet produced, it just hasn't gotten the right OS ported to it yet to operate perfect, maybe it will in som years, right..? You get the point. This review in total was total rubbish. but...:
BUT THAT IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THIS !!:
What _ R E A L L Y _ R E A L L Y _ S T R U C K _ M E _ is the link at the bottom of PHONEARENA.COM
read, and i repeat READ !!!::: "PhoneArena network: WebOS Arena"
It seems phonearena.com is in cahoot with the OS on palm pre, an obvious CONFLICT OF INTEREST, would you not say? It would be like apple reviewing their own phone against others.
What is going on here??!
I will give this one a rating to counter-weigh the bias of the phonearena reviewer.
A good to excellent cellphone, though not at all worthy a top 5 og 10 ranking amongst other cells.phonearena has a big conflict of interest
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5. Legendary. Quite a bit better than the iPhone 3GS IMO
15 Oct 2009 by RottingOrange
96.7%9.7out 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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6.
2 Oct 2009 by Anonymous
96.7%9.7out 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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7. WebOS is amazing, Pre's hardware could have been better.
29 Sep 2009 by lolthisismyname
96.7%9.7out 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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8. Palm Pre
18 Sep 2009 by bnhamm
86.7%8.7out of 10
I think this phone is a love it or hate it type deal. I just got the phone and so far, I love it. I think when the new update comes out I'll love it even more!! Comming from a Blackberry, I'm impressed.
touch screen is amazing
keyboard isnt THAT bad
apps are FREE!
camera is good
WIFI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!no forward texting
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9. Good design, Bad feel
17 Sep 2009 by allisonsny
66.7%6.7out of 10
I am in love with the design and look of the Palm Pre. I love that you can slide it up to reveal a full keyboard, rather than sliding it sideways or a clamshell phone. However, the phone feels very cheap. It sounds cheap when you open and close it and doesn't feel good in your hands. But I think it is an amazing phone, and future versions of this phone will be amazing.
Good design/lookFeels very cheap
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10. Great phone
9 Sep 2009 by Max
93.3%9.3out of 10
I got my Pre about a month after it first came out. I can tell you that I absolutely love it! The screen is amazing, the multiple apps will change your life, and the touchstone charging dock is awesome. Though I did have one issue with the touchstone. I charged it like normal but when I took it off, it still said it was charging. Then I put it back on the dock and it wouldn't charge. So I ended up restarting the phone and haven't had a problem since. But the touchstone is really sweet; it would be hard to go back to plugging in your phone. The gestures are amazing too. I own an ipod touch and sometimes find myself swiping back down by the home button. I do have one other minor complant. The phone is a little sluggish. Compared the the itouch, it is a little choppy and not smooth. But I wouldn't call it slow. It's something that is noticeable but not fustrating. Saying that, this phone could use a couple of software upgrades but is overall awesome. You can't go wrong with the Palm Pre!
Multiple applications
Gestures
Screen
Camera
Easy to use
Touchstone
Call quality
Sprint
Is an all around great phoneSluggish at times
Screen can scratch easier than the itouch screen
No video
Could use more ringer options
Ringer seems too soft
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