I've been wanting to get a smart phone for awhile. I even canceled my serve with verizon to wait to see what happened this year. One of the definite phones ive been looking at is the pre. Ive read just about every review and looked at a bunch of videos and overall i can say i'm pressed. I guess no phone is ever perfect and there are some things i'm disappointed with:
1) Build Quality-This is a major complaint and i would think they would have made its build quality similar to the blackberry storm or the iphone or G1. No such luck on that end
2) Screen Size -- the screen seems really nice just wish it was a LITTLE bigger. I think every web page your going to have to zoom into to see anything.
3) Limited Apps & Failure to release SDK/APIs to general community - Ok the limited apps i understand since it hasn't even been released and palm has itself in a chicken/egg situation here. Hoopefully it ends up working out for them. I do think they should have released an SDK a LONG time ago to the general public. That is the problem is because we don't know how good the APIs are to build quality apps. They said its going to be based around HTML/CSS/Ect....but thats not good enough. They could still suck. And one of my concerns is it going to be to slow to build really good quality apps compared to Object-C. There are so many useful apps on the iphone its the only thing that kind of pulls me a little towards the iphone
4) No yahoo messenger - i use this app all the freakn time and really bumbed its not available yet for the pre. I sure hope it comes.
The main thing that is pushing me towards the pre is multitasking. From the videos it looks awesome. If i'm in a chat app there is no way i want to leave that open. I just want to get notification when i receive IMs....this is a major downfall of the iphone
From my reasearch sprints network seems to be pretty good around my area and the service plans for sprint can't be beat. They don't try to nickel and dime you to death like at&t/verizon does (text messages). I refuse to pay $20 for unlimited text messages. Sprint has a plan that includes unlimited everything for $99 which is just awesome. The same plan on at&t is $150 and i think around $155 on verizon. I really like verizons network but i'm unwilling to spend the difference.
I'm a little disappointed in two prospects:
Android Phones - I'd really like android phone to be an option but there is no way in hell i'm going with Tmobile. You can't even get 3G coverage in my area and sprint is cheaper. They have anounced a bunch of new android devices this year but they are failing to announce specific dates/networks that the phones will be on. Its to bad.
Microsoft - I sometimes think microsoft just doesn't get it and will someday turn into IBM. What are they waiting for?!?!?!? They have a perfect product to make a touchscreen like phone (the zune) and could make an awesome zune like phone but the refuse to do this. I guess in about 2 years they will release something and then apple/others will have a 5 year jump on them and then they won't be able to catch up. Pretty similar to the IPod situation or search with google. Microsoft tries to catch up to late. Id really love a zune phone because i'm sure its programming environment would be based upon the .Net Framework (my forte). I just look how much potential revenue microsoft is missing out on. Why do you think apple is doing so good in this down economy. It really sucks about the zune to. I have two zunes (one flashed based and one hard drive based) and they are really great devices but i don't think they will ever catch up with the ipod....even the zune HD.
Anyways i plan to go to best buy tomorrow and see if they have one. If they don't thats ok. I'm not camping out or doing anything crazy like that.
Ncage
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1) Build Quality-This is a major complaint and i would think they would have made its build quality similar to the blackberry storm or the iphone or G1. No such luck on that end
2) Screen Size -- the screen seems really nice just wish it was a LITTLE bigger. I think every web page your going to have to zoom into to see anything.
3) Limited Apps & Failure to release SDK/APIs to general community - Ok the limited apps i understand since it hasn't even been released and palm has itself in a chicken/egg situation here. Hoopefully it ends up working out for them. I do think they should have released an SDK a LONG time ago to the general public. That is the problem is because we don't know how good the APIs are to build quality apps. They said its going to be based around HTML/CSS/Ect....but thats not good enough. They could still suck. And one of my concerns is it going to be to slow to build really good quality apps compared to Object-C. There are so many useful apps on the iphone its the only thing that kind of pulls me a little towards the iphone
4) No yahoo messenger - i use this app all the freakn time and really bumbed its not available yet for the pre. I sure hope it comes.
The main thing that is pushing me towards the pre is multitasking. From the videos it looks awesome. If i'm in a chat app there is no way i want to leave that open. I just want to get notification when i receive IMs....this is a major downfall of the iphone
From my reasearch sprints network seems to be pretty good around my area and the service plans for sprint can't be beat. They don't try to nickel and dime you to death like at&t/verizon does (text messages). I refuse to pay $20 for unlimited text messages. Sprint has a plan that includes unlimited everything for $99 which is just awesome. The same plan on at&t is $150 and i think around $155 on verizon. I really like verizons network but i'm unwilling to spend the difference.
I'm a little disappointed in two prospects:
Android Phones - I'd really like android phone to be an option but there is no way in hell i'm going with Tmobile. You can't even get 3G coverage in my area and sprint is cheaper. They have anounced a bunch of new android devices this year but they are failing to announce specific dates/networks that the phones will be on. Its to bad.
Microsoft - I sometimes think microsoft just doesn't get it and will someday turn into IBM. What are they waiting for?!?!?!? They have a perfect product to make a touchscreen like phone (the zune) and could make an awesome zune like phone but the refuse to do this. I guess in about 2 years they will release something and then apple/others will have a 5 year jump on them and then they won't be able to catch up. Pretty similar to the IPod situation or search with google. Microsoft tries to catch up to late. Id really love a zune phone because i'm sure its programming environment would be based upon the .Net Framework (my forte). I just look how much potential revenue microsoft is missing out on. Why do you think apple is doing so good in this down economy. It really sucks about the zune to. I have two zunes (one flashed based and one hard drive based) and they are really great devices but i don't think they will ever catch up with the ipod....even the zune HD.
Anyways i plan to go to best buy tomorrow and see if they have one. If they don't thats ok. I'm not camping out or doing anything crazy like that.
Ncage
Moved from Off Tpoic.
Moderator allisolm
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