[rdm]

I went from a Touch Pro to Pre for a while and here are my observations:

1 Development and applications for the Pre is still very limited
2 Basic utility and quality as a phone are quite bad on the Pre. Reception is markedly worse than the touch Pro. Audio quality on handset and speakerphone on the Pre are poor.
3 Build quality of the Pre is about as bad as it gets. A basic quality control is either missing or they decided that problems with a fairly obvious part of the handset, the screen, can be passed of to customers. I went through three Pres with serious blotchyness at the base of the screens until I figured out that Pre=bad screens
4 The GPS in the Pre is bad. It won't start without a Sprint signal even with non web dependent calls to GPS data
5 Proper integration into enterprise still missing
6 no video camera. (WTF?)
7 Editing docs handicapped

I hope Palm moves forward on the hardware, which is the root of most of their problems. But they also seem to cater to the carriers in limiting utility, the GPS being one sign.