Official Palm Pre User Review Thread

Well its finally my turn. I got my pre yesterday and all I can say is WOW. This thing is friggin amazing, so well designed from hardware to software and its so smooth. I always was a fan of winmo but this is exactly what I was trying to achieve with the touch pro and failed. Webos 1.1 is a great update that added some needed features as well as making the whole thing snappier and smoother as well

I got nothing bad to say about this masterpeice of a device cept the fact that even though battery life isn't horrible, it could be better

[jmelan]

aside from palm's poor quality control, i am really happy with the pre in comparison with my old touch pro

i have had two perfect pres, and one with a horrible slider reset bug, where even putting the pre down a little hard caused a reset

the first pre was from the sprint store - perfect but then best buy had their mistake so i returned the sprint one and picked one up from BB. it had the slider reset bug and the BB people were convinced that it was a dead battery, so I had to go to a different BB and return it. spent about 6 hours total to save $100 and the trouble of a mail in rebate

i am hoping this one lasts, but i am a little nervous about it sustaining a couple of accidental drops - a friend dropped his on the power button, and now it diesn't work at all - phone is pretty much useless if you have to slide out the keyborad every time you turn it on

[texdoctor]

tell your friend with the bad power button, to play with the button it is in the stuck down postion, he will come up, i know i did not drop mine but had that happen, had to open keyboard to wake up, but i kept pushing downand side to side with finger and wo wo wo it works again, however the ringer on and off has a minor problem turned to either direction turns sound off, but halfway works just fine lol. Did i forget to tell you I love this phone, and i have owned lots of win mobile phones, starting with the first htc on t-mobile then, touch, mogul, toucch diamod, diamond pro, treo pro, By far this makes them look like toys

[triggerman53]

Yes,I must admit this phone r better yet this OS is the ish.I I'm a WinMo die hard,but this is eye opening.I c what I was missing.I def b keeping this phone.

[info[]box1]

questions to all happy palm pre users...Re: the slider (slide out keyboard)

im not claiming to have the oreo symptoms, but my kb slider seems alittle loose. i know with all slider devices there will be some play in it.

my questions:

a)how much play in the kb slider is normal...?

b)when enough is enough...?



ps..just looking for the realistic thoughts of the happy to have a pre users..!

[CozBoogie]

I don't know if there is a specific amount of twist to worry about it. However, if you're worried I'd take it into the Sprint store and get it replaced. Or at the very least take it in and see what they have to say about it. Or....take it in and compare it with a new model.

late,
Coz

[sanmanc]

My daughter's Pre had quite a bit of wiggle, oreo effect. I took it back the next day and they said Palm was aware of the issue and they were not replacing for this issue. My rep told me to take it back in a couple of weeks and get my 30 exchange. We had it replaced this passed weekend and it is much better now. I did check it before my rep activated it.

[CozBoogie]

Both of ours are fairly "twist free". I hope it's not a problem that develops over time though.

late,
Coz

[sanmanc]

Originally Posted by CozBoogie

Both of ours are fairly "twist free". I hope it's not a problem that develops over time though.

I don't think it is. Eveyone that's reported it had it out of box. Our's are "twist free" as well.

[tx_dbs_tx]

I have had my Palm Pre for 6 weeks or so. First things first, no device will ever be perfect in everyone's eyes. The Palm Pre isn't perfect but I will say that it's cons are minimal and most of them will most likely be addressed in future updates. The Palm Pre, on the other hand, has some SERIOUS pros! Well above the competion and it will continue to get better in the months to come. I think the first review was great and covers the Palm Pre for the most part so I won't repeat the numerous facts about it.
I will however give my comparison of the Palm Pre vs the new BlackBerry Tour 9630 from Sprint. Being that both phones are the newest and probably concidered the best Sprint currently has to offer right now. So I went ahead and bought a new BB Tour because the hype and intrigue was killing me. I am a BlackBerry user since the 8700 series so I"m very familiar with BlackBerry devices. I have been using the BB Tour for a week now and honestly I love the ease of use with BlackBerries, but I have to say I really miss my Palm Pre. Seriously. The battery life on the BB Tour is actually quite good and seems better than the Pre. The Tour's web browser is total junk and useless with very slow web page loading and the browser freezes very frequently. BlackBerry browser is not known to be that great and I already knew this but I was hoping for a speedier browsing experience over the BB Curve... NOT!!! So this is where the Palm Pre puts a SERIOUS spanking on the BB Tour! The other thing I want to mention about the BB Tour is the MMS is working great like it's supposed to. You can send pics, ringtones, video clips with no problem. The Pre can only send pics at this time which for me is a minor con. The video playback on the BB Tour has been greatly improved and can play your mp4 encoded videos almost perfectly with very minimal frame skipping. The Palm Pre still out-performs in the video playback department by a long shot. Which brings me to Youtube videos. The BB Tour does not have a youtube application so you have to visit the mobile website. The youtube video playback on the Tour is an embarrasement to say the least. Yes it plays fullscreen, but the video quality is terrible and no enjoyment whatsoever. The Palm Pre plays HQ youtube videos beautifully and perfectly with no lag on my Pre. Again the Palm Pre puts a major spanking on the BB Tour in the Youtube department!
I want to love the BB Tour but I just can,t. It's basically the same BB Os with some improvements but nothing that puts it in the record books. I kove emailing and text messaging on a BlackBerry because of ease of use and that's the ONLY reason I would have one. BUT... The Palm Pre is VERY intuitive in that department and is actually just as good if not better than BlackBerry when it comes to sending, receiving and forwarding emails and texts. I can definetely say that the Palm Pre's handling of email is excellent and very easy to setup and use.Infact I think it's better than BlackBerry with real html pages that actually works unlike BlackBerries. Pre wins here in my opinion. The screens on both phones really isn't much of a comparison... The Pre dominates in every way. The keyboard comparison is basically a draw for me. I really like the designated @ symbol on the Pre where The Tour requires the alt key. That's a great feature of the Pre and it saves time. Otherwise it's all user preference here and neither phone is bad at all in the keyboard department. To sum up my comparison of the Palm Pre vs the new Sprint BlackBerry Tour... I'm more than ready to switch back to my Palm Pre! I don't travel so I don't need the world phone features of the BB Tour, so other than that there's no good reason why anyone should pick the BB Tour over the. Palm Pre. Oh one more thing about the BB Tour is the trackball/cursor is laggy at times and freezes in the web browser from what seems a lack of memory while rendering web pages and also while data is sending/receiving. That's a warning for those who are wanting a BB Tour. Palm Pre is my phone of choice in every category hands down winner! Sorry for the lack of paragraphs and formatting guys.