as a former touch pro, touch pro 2, and htc hero user I'd say that webOS wipes the floor with them (note that I said webOS) the Pre is plaiged with bad build quality issues so check it out before buying if you can. As far as apps, there are plenty but nowhere near Android numbers although it's growing every day and wipes the floor with WM and Android in the games department. Browser is the best I have used as well. IMO the real advantage is that fragmentation is much less likely with Pm since it's family is small and since it makes hardware and software Palm is keeping webOS tight and well managed by it's devices thus gaining more interest from developers to not worry about compatibility when developing with webOS...