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.

Comments

Re:vs iPhone

[Norsefire]

Autocorrection can be disabled, you know.

Autocorrection can't be disabled by default.

iPhone OS is Mac OS X core. I does multitask, right now.

Yes it multitasks, but not on GUI apps.

There's this random application crashing sometimes, certainly. I wonder how you get to know it's about lack of memory and not badly written code.

You can use apps to profile memory usage and whenever an app crashes for me it's because the available memory has dropped too low. Especially when it's Safari that crashed (normally with 2-3 pages open).

Anyways, if you're going to throw away your iPhone, just let me know where.

I would but I can't copy and paste the name of the place.

Re:Actually it does win on features

[hey!]

You can decry the iPhone as a creature of marketing all you like, but you're only deluding yourself and will never understand the real reason why anything succeeds or fails.

The subtext usually is: people who disagree with me are stupid, in this case because they're marketing led sheep.

People can be stupid about certain things. In my experience people are very bad at expressing what it is that they want. But they are very good at recognizing once it's in their hands. It's quite possible that Apple nefariously incites technological lust in potential buyers, but if somebody loves their iPhone (as many users I know do), it's probably because Apple did something right in its design. It might not be one of the kinds of things you can put on a bullet list of features, but only a fool would tell somebody who really liked a device they were using that they were a fool to do so, because there are other devices whose specs appear better. A thousand features are worthless if they are not well implemented individually, or convenient to use collectively.