Help please. Palm Pre or iPhone 3GS?

[Jex]

I would vote other...Android. Any phone that either has 2.0 (Eclair) or can be upgraded to it.

I have owned both the Pre and an iphone, I now use a HTC Hero and it blows both of them away. My Pre had multiple technical issues which caused me to switch to a BB. I was unhappy with the BB though so i switched over to the iphone since my wife loves hers. Since she has never had another "internet" or "smartphone" she doesn't realize how slow and outdated the iphone already is. Look at the new HTC lines, I am impressed with mine, it is the phone I have kept the longest in a while, and I am really picky about cell phones.

 

[Mickey's Minion]

I have owned both the Pre and an iphone, I now use a HTC Hero and it blows both of them away. My Pre had multiple technical issues which caused me to switch to a BB. I was unhappy with the BB though so i switched over to the iphone since my wife loves hers. Since she has never had another "internet" or "smartphone" she doesn't realize how slow and outdated the iphone already is. Look at the new HTC lines, I am impressed with mine, it is the phone I have kept the longest in a while, and I am really picky about cell phones.

The Hero is what my daughter has. She went back and forth between the Samsung Moment (the other Sprint Android) and the Hero, but chose the Hero. I am very impressed by that phone. I will be trading my despised Pre in as soon as I can for the Hero.

My DS has an Iphone and I am far more impressed with the Hero than with the Iphone.

 

[Huggles]

Thanks for all the information folks. I think I'll end up with the iPhone as my service provider doesn't supply the HTC Hero and I can't be bothered with all the trouble of re-allocating/transferring numbers. Think the iPhone will be okay for my purposes as I won't be using it for business.

Thanks again.

 

[golfgal]

I hate my PALM--it is a Centro but I hate it. We have to use it for work so I don't have a choice.

Smartphones have a very short battery life. I have to charge my phone every day, sometimes during the day depending on how many calls I have to make from it that day. I have a lot of work stuff on there so that uses a lot of battery.

DS17 got a Motorola Droid and he said he needs to charge his pretty much every night but he is a teenager and spends all of his time texting

 

[mkel34]

Smartphones have a very short battery life. I have to charge my phone every day, sometimes during the day depending on how many calls I have to make from it that day. I have a lot of work stuff on there so that uses a lot of battery.

DS17 got a Motorola Droid and he said he needs to charge his pretty much every night but he is a teenager and spends all of his time texting

3G phones tend to use more battery. AT&T phones are the worst due to the way the technology is engineered and Blackberry is the best but its not a huge difference. I really don't know of any phone that doesn't have to be charged everyday, even without much use.

 

[rie'smom]

I love my iPhone3GS. It is super user friendly.

 

[FireDancer]

It is sad to see how far Palm has fallen. The really sad thing about the Pre isn't so much the device but how as a platform Palm's WebOS has just stopped evolving.

The Pre wasn't supposed to be a single device platform like the iPhone or even in some ways Blackberry (multiple devices but all one maker). Instead WebOS was supposed to be a platform like Android where it is open and anyone can make a device for it. The Pre was analogous to the G1 where both were just the first devices of the platform. The Android platform evolved to include not only software but hardware updates. All platforms don't come out fully baked, they evolve. There is a huge difference between the iPhone of 2010 and the first one launched. The same goes for Blackberry and Android. The WebOS platform is still sitting on the same device that came out a year ago and the only updates have been patches.

I was rooting for Palm because of their history as innovators but they disappointed me. I don't think the problem was with the platform but its management much like the problem with Windows mobile strategy is, well, the apparent lack of a strategy. No matter which platform you like (iPhone, Android, Windows, WebOS, Symbian, etc) we all win when they all succeed because ultimately competition leads to innovation which leads to better products and a user experience for us.