[alan7467]

Thought I'd post some fresh impressions from a non Pre owner since they've made a few updates now.

Went back to the sprint store today and played with a Pre running 1.1 for about an hour. The demo phone had seen a lot of abuse but was holding up really well. Definitely some "oreo" effect with the phone closed, but I found it minimal and totally tolerable (for me at least). Also noticed some blochiness on the bottom of the display. Again, very hard to notice and didn't bother me.

I found the phone to be much snappier than I remember (played with it on launch day before). Apps were loading faster than before, and most menus seemed to scroll a little smoother. Still really like the whole cards setup for multitasking. I opened up youtube, starting playing a trailer for the latest star trek movie (found the playback quality to be quite good), backed out (with it auto pausing) and starting surfing PPCgeeks, changing settings and looking at photos without much of a noticable slowdown. One thing I ended up getting really aggravated with though was backing up within an app or "card". I flat out couldn't figure out how to do it. Once I got home I read up and it all made sense. Just needed to do a half swipe back in the gesture area. Duh.

Checked out the app store, downloaded Tweed and found it similar to Twikini on WM though with considerably more polish. That's the thing that stands out so much to me with this phone vs. WM. Menus in apps have a consistent look, feel and polish. Apps don't feel half backed like most WM apps I try. It just feels like a breath of fresh air in that regard.

Still on the fence on this phone, but if the HTC Hero continues to look like it's gonna be slow (which will be likely since it's running old hardware, damn you HTC) I'll likely be jumping ship to WebOS and the Pre.