[neodorian]

I think I might get a couple of Pre phones for my girlfriend and I when they come out. I used to be a Palm user but after a while on my Treo 650 (last Palm I owned) all of the good software and features were coming out for WM. I got a Mogul and that was a so-so affair...did a lot but not well. When the Mogul started to die I exchanged it out for a Touch Pro and while it is working much better than my Mogul, there are some nice things I really like about the Pre. For a while now I have been looking for a nice modern phone with hardware accelerated video that didn't require me to give up things like keyboard, tethering, multitasking, and my cheap-*** Sprint plan. Looks like Pre will be the first to give me all of these things.

Personally I use my phone to organize my life (a-la traditional PDA), listen to streaming radio, browse the web, make calls (duh), and navigate. Pre seems to have excellent PDA functionality as it will integrate my Outlook contacts and calendar via Exchange with facebook and Gmail (the other two big ones I use). Streaming radio looks excellent with Pandora built in and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Web browsing looks miles ahead of any of the WM browsers and can compete with the iPhone's browser without forcing me to give up a real keyboard on the device. Navigation also looks great.

So far the Pre looks to improve on the things I do most over the TP so I will probably get one. My girlfriend is sick of me always having the nice phones so I will probably end up getting a pair of them when they have been out and reviewed for a few weeks.