there is no need to give pinch-zooming a high regard in the Pre , Pre is 200% better than iPhone with or without pinch-zooming.
That being said.
Palm does hold a lot of patents as well. I wouldn't be surprised if MS decide to join in, if this is a good opportunity to remove iPhone from the market completely.
@imTheKing: The same way people were so sure the iPhone was going to be so great befire it actually was released: Media hype, magazine articles, blogger talk and community enthusiasm.
Thus far the Pre has probably gotten as much, or more, positive attention prerelease than any other phone, with the possible exception of the iPhone. Virtually everything about the Pre has been extremely well received and hailed as a fantastic contender.
While it may not be supplant the iPhone as the de rigeur phone of hipster-wannabes and technofetishist iconoclasts, it may actually be the phone to have for people who actually need a serious, capable and powerful phone for productivity and multimedia. It certainly looks as though it'll have a more open software development architecture than Apple would ever allow one of their products, which is automatically a point in its favor.
Apple's tight grip on iPhone applications might be a nice way to prevent sullying the device's good name, but it also inhibits the sort of rampant, creative, "outside the box" thinking that was Apple's initial reason d'etre. If Palm can extricate themselves from Apple's nasty and petty legal posturing, then they may just have a chance to rebuild a brand that once defined very nature of handheld computing, and set a new benchmark in smartphone standards.
@mcr_fan: Videos are fabricated. Believe me. I work for one of the mobile companies that make those exact videos. ;)
@BeautifulAgony: it was different with the iphone. The phones that were out at the time of release when Apple made their iphone announcement were horrible. No one had come close to a phone like that. At this point we have some good competitors in the run (none of which have hit the mark), yet some idiot comes around a blog to say "the pre is better" when hes never even seen one in person.
@imTheKing: My opinion is that the Pre is better, based on the fact that I like a hardware keyboard, a more open development environment, and a more universal code base so that more apps can be created for it without a screening process. The hardware and OS also look to be more powerful for the needs I have. All this is based on demonstrations, data released by Palm, and CES media coverage from multiple sources. I don't like the iPhone. There is absolutely nothing about it, from shape, functionality or cost, that appeals to me.
We make judgments based on available data. Based on data available to me I think the Pre is great, and I think the iPhone isn't.
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How can you give the quote they did and not expect a cockwaving contest? They are both displaying their tickets to the gun show right now.
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That being said.
Palm does hold a lot of patents as well. I wouldn't be surprised if MS decide to join in, if this is a good opportunity to remove iPhone from the market completely.
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Thus far the Pre has probably gotten as much, or more, positive attention prerelease than any other phone, with the possible exception of the iPhone. Virtually everything about the Pre has been extremely well received and hailed as a fantastic contender.
While it may not be supplant the iPhone as the de rigeur phone of hipster-wannabes and technofetishist iconoclasts, it may actually be the phone to have for people who actually need a serious, capable and powerful phone for productivity and multimedia. It certainly looks as though it'll have a more open software development architecture than Apple would ever allow one of their products, which is automatically a point in its favor.
Apple's tight grip on iPhone applications might be a nice way to prevent sullying the device's good name, but it also inhibits the sort of rampant, creative, "outside the box" thinking that was Apple's initial reason d'etre. If Palm can extricate themselves from Apple's nasty and petty legal posturing, then they may just have a chance to rebuild a brand that once defined very nature of handheld computing, and set a new benchmark in smartphone standards.
01/23/09
@BeautifulAgony: it was different with the iphone. The phones that were out at the time of release when Apple made their iphone announcement were horrible. No one had come close to a phone like that. At this point we have some good competitors in the run (none of which have hit the mark), yet some idiot comes around a blog to say "the pre is better" when hes never even seen one in person.
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We make judgments based on available data. Based on data available to me I think the Pre is great, and I think the iPhone isn't.
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Die Palm!
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