Palm Pre: first impressions
My iPhone 3G died a few weeks ago after rudely jumping out of my pocket and onto some gravel, so I took the opportunity to upgrade to the new Palm Pre smartphone. My main reasons were mainly that it looks very cool, and writing applications for it is really, really easy if you know HTML and JavaScript.
I’ve now had it one whole day, so here are my initial impressions.
Pros
1. Obvious I know, but the multitasking is fantastic. I got used to using multiple applications at the same time, that I don’t know how I ever did without it on the iPhone. For example, playing a radio app and browsing the web. On the iPhone, the music stops. On the Pre, it doesn’t.
2. Moving from application to application is much faster for me. This includes loading new applications, and switching to new ones.
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