600,000 iPhone 4 were preordered during the first day and nearly crashed AT&T and Apple’s system. I have no doubt that Appple is on track to sell 1 millions of iPhone 4 during today’s official launch. Will iPhone 4 replace your Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, and Palm Pixi Plus? A couple of readers responded to why you should switch from Palm Pre to iPhone 4. Are you still waiting for Palm Pre 2? What will Palm Pre 2 include? Double the screen resolution? Double memory capacity? What else can Palm and HP do the fend off competition from Apple and Google. I am pretty sure that HP and Palm will definitely come up with something extraordinary before Christmas. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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I would consider it other than the 2 negatives: Verizon doesn’t carry the iphone and contracts are in place (providing I did want to switch carriers). I’m hoping Palm comes out with something awesome soon since I like WebOS better than iphones OS.
No, the Apple will NOT replace my Pre.
1./ dedicated keyboard is important to serious users. The pre CAN be used for entertainment, though the apple is marginally better, but the Apple I4 can NOT be used for serious business apps because of its lack of hard keyboard. Unless you are a teenager or shallow the pre serves a better all round purpose.
2./ The HP alliance and funding will allow for a rocking next gen of palm phones… can hardly wait.
3./ Battery problems are true of all smart phones… but apple had the antenna problem too.
4./ popularity does not mean actual better.. sometimes it means the packaging and hype is better.
I have never owned an iphone. My wife had an Android G1 and upgraded to Hero when we switched to Sprint. I have used Palm since the Handspring 180. Obviously the Palm Pre is the best yet. It seems that the iPhone 4 has passed the capabilities of webOS for the time being, adding multi-app capabilities. But we are still basically using a first generation phone with the Palm Pre. What I love about this phone, and OS, is it is completely customizable. The first and only accessory I bought for my phone was an extended battery. I can use all the features all day and still have 30% battery left when I get home. I don’t think any iPhone offers that. Add to this Homebrew and patches and themes, and I basically have the phone that I need, and want, without waiting for the higher ups to decide. The Palm camera gives me quality photos (much better than my wife’s Hero). I can surf the web, stream radio and work on my phone at the same time. The swipe to erase function is unparalleled as to ease and convenience. Just wait for the HP factor to add a 1ghz processor and better accelerometer to a great mobile OS. And commercials to show people what this phone can do!
No tech guru here, just a Spanish user switching from Nokia to Palm soon. I have had iPhones, here is my experience.
I head a department and I MUST have 2 lines (2 in fact, my secretary’s, no joke). Telefonica (Spanish provider) came to my door to offer 2 iPhones 3G (this was around Xmas 2008). I was using Nokia e61’s back then, and liked the touchscreen, I am 56 years old, I had never seen that on a phone. Whatever. Telefonica cared and even look 2 different models for me, white and black, richly detailed in a Xmas box with plenty of points for accesories and gave me craddles and stuff as present. I was switching from HP to Apple back then (I am using HP Quads now although Macs are great and we kept some, but this is a different story) and thought it was a good idea to use Apple phones. To make a long story short: DISASTER. PUSH never work. NEVER. AS soon as the screen went off, push ended, whenever I tackle it, 38 emails urgently waiting for me to touch one of my iphones. And they were supposed to be free, no carrier even if Telefonica sold them, 800 euros per 3G! I spent the next 4-5 months googling solutions: install ebay app and keep it running. Jailbreak it - I learned to jailbreak; open maps at the same time, then close. Nothing work. A couple of months afterwards I finally took them to the shop. Telefonica changed them for anouther couple without questions, the guy at the shop saw the problem first hand. Same problem with the 2 new ones. Finally went back to Nokia, because I saw 3GS was… offering video! Something I use in every meeting of course, forget mail, forget Lotus Notes, executives want video of course (and iphone is suppose to be usable in the office???). And went back to Nokia. EVERY TIME I see an iPhone 4g ad, it reminds me of the MONTHS entering the configuration this or this other way, feeling constantly insecure checking emial MANUALLY. I plan to switch to Palm and never used one, so I do not know what will happen, but sorry, no more cool Iphones for me.