Palm Pre and Apple iPhone 3GS: side by side
0. phoneArena posted on 16 Jul 2009, 10:47
In this article we will compare the Pre and the iPhone 3GS head-to-head so you can get a good idea of their similarities and differences, and in the end, hopefully you will have a better feel for which one is right for you, assuming you haven’t committed yet to one or the other. Either one is a winner, in our opinion...
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14. Bawt posted on 18 Jul 2009, 21:37 0 0
I love the Pre, it's very sexy and "fresh." I'm sick of my iPhone 3GS already after owning a 3G and first gen. I was going to buy a Pre but the lack of being able to sync it to iTunes hits me hard. I need my movies for the plane rides! Also, after owning an iPhone for years I have because completely dependent on apps and games to play with, something the Pre will lack for quite some time. Lastly, I hate how the Pre's screen is glass. I cannot stand my products having nicks and scratches! Oh well, good try Palm, like your work.
18. E.N. posted on 19 Jul 2009, 16:54 0 0
Yeah I kind of agree. One of the coolest things about the Pre is that its new, fresh, and does something that most phones don't. I am also getting a little bit too use to my iphone 3G. I decided not to get the 3GS mainly because it looked exactly like the 3G. And there are some things that I like too much on my 3G and some things that I really don't like about the Pre that's keeping me satisfied with this phone. But anyways my iphone is the first phone that I've kept for over a year and it will probably be the first phone that I will have for two years, so I guess Apple is doing something right.
22. matistight posted on 20 Jul 2009, 18:32 0 0
Bawt, i bet you were either really high when you said you liked the pre or really drunk. You should go to rehab and then rethink your decision. Good day.
20. Striker13084 posted on 20 Jul 2009, 13:25 0 0
what was the omnia tomuch compitition for them to compare to?
24. wHiTeSoL posted on 29 Jul 2009, 03:34 0 0
@ whoever mentioned apps. I have one question for you. How many apps are there for the Pre? Last count was 30,000+ and that was years ago, well before the pre was announced. I hate it when apple fan boys yell and scream that the iphone has all these apps and the palm has none. Do your homework before saying something.
25. behold--me posted on 29 Jul 2009, 20:57 0 0
wel actually the iphone has thousands. a sheet somewhere on this site (who knows where) shows that there were about 18 apps for the pre at launch. then 30 a week or two later. i don't think that the pre has that many. the iphone stil has its developers makin apps all the time but dammit i dont think that the pre has as many. "maybe u should do ur homework before sayin somethin"
27. wHiTeSoL posted on 30 Jul 2009, 16:28 0 0
Correction. There were only a few apps in the store at launch. Every app that worked on palm garnet also works on webos. And like I said earlier, last count there were over 30,000 plus
28. NDPTAL85 posted on 03 Aug 2009, 17:45 0 0
So you're counting all of the extremely old looking apps that ran on the previous Palm OS as apps for the Pre? Thats stretching it a LOT. The classic environment on the Pre is extremely unstable and provides for a horrible UI mismatch between the two different OS's.
29. 505alltheway3 posted on 14 Aug 2009, 02:05 0 0
the iphone will eventually be w/ a legit carrier soon fcc is making the iphone go to all carriers eventually. at&t sucks all they have is an iphone their coverage is horrible and if you all saw pc worlds article on speeds between the 2 the pre won 2 out of 3 for quickness. Once sprint gets an iphone i will think about it until then i will enjoy my pre. At&t bought cingular and they think they are special do your homework and you will see yourself in the united states verizon or sprint are the best and sprint makes it affordable.
30. Vandro posted on 24 Aug 2009, 14:50 0 0
It's just a dual Apple tax, people. Palm grabbed an ex-CTO from Apple and popped out a mirror copy of the first-gen iPhone, hardware-wise, but thrown into a slder the feels like a cheap Chinese knock-off with the worst keyboard to ever grace a smartphone. They do everything to repeat Apple's first gen mistakes, but deliver nothing new. WebOS has a glorified task launcher. That's it. The iPhone is an iPod that can make calls on a ludicrously expensive data plan to counteract its "subsidy." Only Apple, it seems, could give people a phone lacking in basic features available on almost every other smartphone, and some feature phones, and they will buy it like gangbusters. Can it tether? Send MMS? Transfer files over Bluetooth? Multitask? Both phones lose. WinMo and Android beat WebOS and iPhone OS, easily. Open-source beats gimick any day.
