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Palm Pre Reviewed
mlingojones writes "The Palm Pre doesn't come out until June 6th, but the Boy Genius Report not only got their hands on one but also posted a review of it. They liked webOS, but not the hardware (especially the keyboard). Overall, they feel that 'once people are able to play a real unit themselves, there will be more than a lot of happy Palm Pre customers.'" On the downside, this review says the keyboard is lousy.
Looking forward to all the hate I'll be getting for this, but:
I own a Sony Ericsson Xperia. It does almost everything you'd get in an iPhone (calling, messaging, browsing the web, Google Maps, listening to music, watching movies, ...), a Pre (multitasking, slide-out keyboard, facebook integration), a "classic" Palm (all the PIM you'll ever need, bluetooth keyboards) or a G1 (running lots of apps from unsigned sources, if you tell it to) and more.
It runs Windows mobile.
Devices similar to it have been around quite a bit longer than first-generation iPhones. Just like most any palm, they've never been cool, though. So even if Palm would've gotten out a TX cell, it's extremely unprobable that this would've changed anything. They might've gotten a few percentage points out of RIM's market share. Maybe some of Microsoft's. But an Apple product's hype isn't based on features, or the price, or the design. It's marketing coupled with hordes of rabid fanboys.