CES 2009 brought us a new player in the smartphone upper-echelon. Let's drill down and see how the Palm Pre compares with the iPhone and Android's G1.
1. Multitouch touchscreen/gesture control: All three are capacitive, only the Pre and iPhone have multitouch. The Pre's glowy little "gesture location" has dropped the touchable actual estate all the way down tto the bottom of the phone, which is excellent for getting able to navigate with 1 hand and not interfere with the screen at all. The wavey dock you bring up from the bottom looks amazing, but can you use it out of the box with no a second believed or page by way of the manual? That is my question. Advantage: iPhone/Pre tossup.
2. Multitasking: 1 of the beefiest of our beefs with the iPhone SDK is its insistence on Apps operating 1 at a time. The G1's notifications drawer was undoubtedly a step in the appropriate direction, but the Pre's interface is the very first smartphone OS that was built with multitasking as a core style element. Resembling the Xbox's old Blades, or a much less-jarring OS X Expose even, the Pre's "Cards" interface often places you in the context of each app running for fast switching, and notifications from other apps do not pull you away totally from the process at hand. Multitasking is hugely important on a telephone, and it's a very good sign that Palm recognizes. Advantage: Pre
three. Hardware: Adrian says:
While the hardware is undoubtedly high quality, I'm not entirely blown away by the design. It looks genuinely good, and original, but it's a little too cutesy in shape and type of reminds me of an oversized pebble. A slightly larger screen could have undoubtedly been put to excellent use, and I truly do not like the black space on the sides of the screen.
A telephone with a built-in QWERTY still hasn't touched the iPhone in terms of sleekness and pure sex. And it might nonetheless be a although. Benefit: iPhone
4. Development platform: The Pre's "Web OS" confident sounds nice—all developers need to have to know is JavaScript, HTML and CSS? Sounds excellent in theory, but building a mobile app will in no way be as effortless as cranking out a new theme for your Tumblr. Palm's stressing ease of development, although, so it will be exciting to see how it stacks up against Apple's solid, familiar-to-devs OS X-based SDK and Android's totally open source method. Benefit: Pre? If it's straight-up JavaScript, that's a lot of programmers ready to go. Note: we had iPhone here prior to, but we've switched with a qualification. Developer community still goes to iPhone for volume.
five. Internet Integration: The Pre subtly integrates the internet into the phone at every single chance, and it is awesome. Contacts get pulled in from Facebook, Gmail, IM and and scanned for dupes the messaging app shows your last a number of emails, IMs and SMS with that contact in a single window. Truly, really smart stuff. Advantage: Pre
6. App Shop/developer community: A smartphone is only as great as the software program it runs. On the Pre, Palm is still keeping application delivery particulars like pricing behind the curtain, but they did say the app delivery will be entirely handled by the telephone (with out a desktop app), which is a shame. They are saying that they are not going to duplicate Apple's Hobbesian app approval black box mistake, which Android has also hasn't fallen for, but there will be an approval method based on "security and stability." But as we know with Android, a dev community needs sufficient devices in the hands of buyers to reach critical mass, which the Pre will have to match. Benefit: iPhone, even with the black box, but Android and Pre's more open stances are reassuring.
7. Wireless charger: We've noticed wireless charger tech for years at CES, but it is taken this lengthy for a significant consumer gadget to come bundled with its own wireless charger in the box. Whoops, it's not in the box, sold separately for unknown $ $ . But still: Bravo. Advantage: Pre
8. The Network: Dan Hesse, Sprint's CEO, gave our coast-to-coast 3G test a shout out in his press conference. Of course he did: Sprint won (in download speeds). Sprint was the only main carrier with no a effective, hype-catching smartphone choice, and now they have one. The Pre is a data-centric telephone with a network we've proven to be strong in a big swatch of the country—that's a very good combo. But would you switch to Sprint for the Pre? Ugh. Benefit: Not cut and dry for everyone, but we stand by our numbers: Sprint is the very best 3G network in our tests.
9. Physical keyboard: It is preference, but one held by a large swathe of the gadget acquiring public: physical QWERTY keypads are still the mainstream input of choice. Touch is obtaining far better all the time, but a lot of individuals nonetheless want physical keyboards. But far better but is the capability to decide on sadly, the Pre doesn't have a soft onscreen keyboard, and its slide-out is the same meh QWERTY from the Treo Pro. Benefit: It is preference, but on me, the iPhone's soft keyboard can't be beat.
10. Camera: The P
re has an LED Flash for its 3MP camera, one thing each the iPhone and G1 lack. Flash cellphone photos are ugly, but for a lot of people, they are excellent sufficient. So credit for throwing it in. Benefit: Pre
11. Battery: Apple's still an outlier with their non-removable battery like the G1's, the Pre's comes out for a spare swap too. We've heard Apple's factors for this a million occasions, we know the drill, but removable batteries will never ever stop getting handy. Benefit: Pre
12. Copy & Paste: Yep, Pre's got it. iPhone still doesn't. Benefit: Pre/G1
13. Browser: All 3 use a browser based on WebKit, which has turn into the regular for the mobile web. We couldn't put it through our Mobile Browser Battlemodo ringer clearly, but what we saw looked fantastic, and it is the only other mobile browser besides the iPhone that supports multitouch zooming. Benefit: iPhone/Pre
So there you have it. We're excited. Are you?
( http://i.gizmodo.com/5126870/in-a-nutshell-palm-pre-vs-iphone-vs-g1 )
Far more info on the Pre
( http://now.sprint.com/pre/?id9=SEM_Google_C_Sprint_Pre )
( http://www.palm.com/us/goods/phones/pre/index.html )
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo3SZ_20kZI )
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iphoneeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
dude attempt it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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