So should I Buy New Apple iPhone or Palm Pre?
That is one dilemma right? The Palm Pre has been touted as the smartphone to have this year with all its keyboard and capacitive touch screen goodness, but then there is also the new Apple iPhone reportedly coming out.
Although most of what we hear about the new Apple iPhone is basically rumour and supposed leaks, we do have Apples history with the iPhone to go by and if it is anywhere as good as today’s Apple iPhone, choosing between the new Apple iPhone and the Palm Pre will be difficult.
So how about a little advice from our readers, my question for you today is…Should I Buy New Apple iPhone or Palm Pre?
James.
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20 thoughts on “So should I Buy New Apple iPhone or Palm Pre?”
buy the palm pre all the way…
i always hated the iphone cuz every one had it
and it didnt have a keyboard… but im not gona lie it was the best looking phone out there…
but! the pre is about to come out.. it looks much better smaller and it has a keyboard
palm pre is the best phone for this year !
You should buy an iPhone because you’ll have a very hard time finding a Pre in a store.
Really, it’s a stupid question: A product that is selling VS a product that is not yet selling and no one has used. How do you expect any good advice from your users?
This will be a fair question once the Pre is for sale and you compare it to whatever iPhone is for sale then.
Get the iPhone if you:
1. Want access to over 35,000+ apps
2. Want access to podcasts, movies, audio books, that you can also play on your big screen TV or computer.
3. Want access to over 6000+ games and want to replace your Nintendo DS and PSP.
4. Want access to a multibillion dollar market of accessories – to customize the look and express yourself as an individual.
5. Want access to new hardware accessories that will come with the iPhone 3.0 such as medical devices, keyboards, gaming connectors, etc. etc.
6. Want to network with friends or game with friends over a bluetooth network.
7. Want compatibility with your company\’s Microsoft Exchange email and data network.
8. Want the best iPod experience
9. Want to easily use iTunes to manage your music, movies, audio books, photos, data, etc.
10. Want direct connectors to your BMW or other cars to control the phone.
11. Want a BIGGER network than Sprint – with better service than Sprint.
12. Want integration with your Macintosh.
13. Want to be COOL and DESIREABLE and SEXY.
14. Want to have what every teenager wants.
15. Want to be capable of making millions by developing applications for it.
16. Want a phone your can unlock or hack (e.g. jailbreak).
17. Want a phone you can use as a level because it has straight sides.
18. Want to be any color than green turd.
Get the iPhone if you want these and more.
Pre all the way:
Sprint’s 3g service has a much bigger footprint than AT&T giving you highspeed data in many more places. Without 3g you are stuck at 56k speed with AT&T Edge.
WebOS is based on HTML making applications extremely easy to develop. Apple has it’s own code which is not easy for developers to produce.
Pre is going to be THE Enterprise friendly phone because of WebOS. Iphone is not.
Pre will connect to Microsoft Exchange
Pre has a real keyboard
Pre has a user replaceable battery
Palm users will have the ability to run their programs on Pre.
Palm just announced a utility to port data from other OS’s as well.
So far those developers writing code are saying that the applications written for Pre are better than the applications they wrote for iphone.
95% of the applications for iphone are junk or a gimmick.
Phone plans with Sprint are cheaper and better than AT&T.
Pre has a much better camera
Pre has better applications built in.
Clearly if you have to ask the answer is clear.
Buy the Pre!
For an ass hat living in a fantasy world, you need the right phone too. Since nobody sells the Pre and Palm can’t find anyone to save their ass you may as well fantasize you own this imagined device and make imaginary phone calls to your imaginary friends talking up the imaged features your imagined phone has.
Raphael,
I beg to differ when you said that the iPhone has no keyboard. If so how do iPhone users type their emails, text, search? What it has is a “soft” keyboard or a virtual keyboard. The immediate advantage is obvious. It appears only when you need it, leaving the whole real estate of your iphone surface for other controls like video, music, games etc. If that is not a superior user interface to a hard keyboard which sits permanently on your device, I do not know what is.
Should you buy a Chrysler or a Toyota? Well Toyota will still be around in 5 years and so will Apple. Its not so clear that Palm will still exist even a year from now (and if the Pre rolls out late or doesn’t meet projections that’s almost a sure thing).
This is also a replay of the iPod/Zune debate. Zune was announced months before it came out as having almost all of the current iPod features plus a few that were lacking. Meanwhile, Apple who doesn’t pre-announce products, came out with the next iPod that blew the Zune out of the water. So the real question is whether the non-existent pre is better than the current iPhone, but rather how will it stack up with the next iPhone that gets released this summer.
To Js,
Real keyboard? I like to think this as an “antiquated” keyboard. Whether or not an app is junk or useless is a matter of opinion. A billion downloads is nothing to laugh about. Users are having fun. If not, they will delete it. It is the fun of exploring a quagmire of apps. That itself is intriquing. My spare time now is used to hunt for interesting apps.
I will address James Katt’s silly points in turn.
1. Want access to over 35,000+ apps. (Most Apps aren\’t free and mimic free web pages the WebOS can use natively)
2. Want access to podcasts, movies, audio books, that you can also play on your big screen TV or computer. (All available on the Pre as well)
3. Want access to over 6000+ games and want to replace your Nintendo DS and PSP. (And you think these developers won\’t want to make money on the Pre?)
4. Want access to a multibillion dollar market of accessories – to customize the look and express yourself as an individual. (Wow this tells me a lot about you. Can we meet sometime so I can laugh at your \”Mainstream Individualism\”? Besides thes are already starting to become available for the Pre.)
5. Want access to new hardware accessories that will come with the iPhone 3.0 such as medical devices, keyboards, gaming connectors, etc. etc.
6. Want to network with friends or game with friends over a bluetooth network. (You don\’t know much about the Pre do you?)
7. Want compatibility with your company\\’s Microsoft Exchange email and data network. (It was announced when the Pre became public that MS Exchange is integrated.)
8. Want the best iPod experience (Why carry around a phone and MP3 player? It will all fit on your Palm Pre that has a headphone jack.)
9. Want to easily use iTunes to manage your music, movies, audio books, photos, data, etc. (Again you know nothing about the Pre.)
10. Want direct connectors to your BMW or other cars to control the phone.
11. Want a BIGGER network than Sprint – with better service than Sprint. (This is debatable. Exceptfor the fact that unlimited data on AT&T is $30 bucks more than on Sprint.)
12. Want integration with your Macintosh. (Which conveniently runs Windows that can interact with the Pre. So your point is fail.)
13. Want to be COOL and DESIREABLE and SEXY. (Another reason I want to meet you, so I can take pictures of a person who has no self esteem when his gadget is taken away.)
14. Want to have what every teenager wants. (See above)
15. Want to be capable of making millions by developing applications for it. (See response after point 3)
16. Want a phone your can unlock or hack (e.g. jailbreak).
17. Want a phone you can use as a level because it has straight sides. (Can be done with the Pre, if you aren\’t retarded)
18. Want to be any color than green turd. (See comment after point 4)
Get the iPhone if you want these and more. (That\’s right. Be an individual JUST LIKE THIS GUY!)
James Katt said:
“11. Want a BIGGER network than Sprint – with better service than Sprint.”
Wow. Your points aren’t really that good of an argument as the Pre can do just about all that PLUS a whole lot more, but this one point is just laughable.
Sprints 3G network is like 3 times bigger than Att’s. It’s also been rated the FASTEST 3G network by Gizmodo’s independant tests from coast to coast. Att’s 3G network is tiny. I mean it’s terrible to be honest. Not only is the 3G network bad, but dropped calls are rediculous on Att. I NEVER drop calls on sprint. From what I’ve read, Apple actually wanted to release the iphone on sprints network as their first choice because of this.
Over 80 % of U.S. teenagers have an iPod.
Guess which phone they want.
Teenagers eventually become adults.
Guess what phone they will have.
iPhone.
Over 80 % of U.S. teenagers have an iPod.
Guess which phone they want.
iPhone.
All Teenagers eventually become All of the Adults.
Guess what phone they will have.
iPhone.
The Pre’s web browser is based on WebKit. WebKit is developed by Apple. It is the basis for Safari on the iPhone.
Thus anything the Pre can run, the iPhone can run. But the iPhone also has native applications which are faster – over 35,000 of them.
mk get the palm pre.
1. it is about to rock apples world on it’s edge, at&t knows this and they have gone so far asw to tell all of their employees pointers on how the iphone is better.really guys?
2.the pre is much more intuitive and in depth. the apps were all thought out through and through, and from what ive seen, much better than the iphone. for example when,on the home screen, you have multiple applications open you have these miniature menus of the apps. they look like screen shots of the apps. you are able to slide thrugh all of the apps one by one or even view all of them on the same screen!beat that apple!
3.app switching.on the pre you can run multiple windows/apps at the same time-something that iphone just can’t live up to.
4. a real keyboard! have you ever been typeing on the iphone and you type “rhe opgone sucls” instead of “the iphone sucks”. well with a real hardware keyboard(which im useing right now)you dont need to worry about typeing the wrong letter and you can type “the iphone sucks” all you want!great right?
5.developement. yes the iphone has an app store which is a great plus i cant argue with that. but ,if you have any other smartphone than the iphone, then you know that the basis for developement is already HUGE for non iphone owners. as a pocket pc owner i have tried everything from stock windows mobile 5 to TouchFlo 3D to xpieria all thanks to great developers who are loyal to dispising the iphone. can you download TouchFlo,xpeiria,winmo,or even android to the iphone? i think not.
6.media player. you stated that the iphone has a built in ipod and yes this is true but the pre has the equivelent if not better. it derives all of its information from your home computer, internet, and many other sources to create one unifyed device/ulimate media player. also it has a built in speaker for listening without headphones . if you try that on an iphone might aswell just wait for the crickets to starts chirpping.
anyway the palm pre is going to be the better choice. it has a great carrier to back it up, with people who care. at&t’s customer support is a joke. the pre sports many innovative and NEW additions to the telecommunications market and, if given the chance, should come out on top to rain on the iphones parade.
Sure, go buy a Palm Pre and get some untested handset from a nearly bankrupt company on a nearly bankrupt carrier. Just pray you don’t have any problems with either since customer support will probably be non-existent.
The people here that are telling you to buy the Palm Pre have probably never touched a Pre since they’re relatively rare in the real world. Angelina Jolie likes her Pre, but she can buy anything she wants. I’ve always been told it’s better to hold off purchasing new products so you don’t have to get stuck with early production lemons. I’d advise most of you to stay away from the early production Pres. No need in taking an unecessary risk.
Good luck to you with Palm and the Pre, a handset from a company that let their Treo line and PalmOS fall into a ditch over the last four or five years. A keyboard and background processing don’t mean squat if you can’t get all-around good customer service. I hope Palm will survive since I don’t want to see any more workers out of jobs.
Untested handset? No one here has held it?
This has been one of the most tested handsets ever.
I have held it and used it and also have used an iphone. The iphone sucks compared to the Pre. No contest! Multitasking is absolutely amazing. Cant do that with the iphone. Being able to search and combine data from several sources at once… AWESOME! The GUI is smooth and makes the iphone look and act anemic, this from a phone that hasnt even been released.
Sprint customer service is now better than AT&T or Verizon and I had both not more than two years ago.
Apple customer service has gone down the tubes. Ask anyone who has had to deal with them. I have, they are snotty and reluctant to admit they have defects until 90% of owners rise up as one and complain. As an example I had an ipod that had a drive crash under warranty. I was asked if I subjected it to any hard jolts. I said I use it on a treadmill. I was told they are not designed for such use and would not be covered under warranty. After moving up two levels of customer service I asked them why they advertised the ipod with people dancing? They couldnt give me a logical answer and I was finally given a replacement which I promptly sold.
Apple routinely removes negative comments from their forums as well. I could understand baseless complaints, but these were comments on bugs and defects that Apple didnt want people to know. Yeah, that’s being honest!
Sprint did have customer service issues… A LOOOONG time ago, they now have the best I have dealt with in compared to Verizon and AT&T combined and I have experience with both.
The only reason every smartphone (and most non-smartphones) get compared to the iPhone is because that is currently the benchmark. Apple have set a precedent in the mobile world and all other manufacturers are clamouring to compete by offering phones which can do all the iPhone does, address its shortcomings, and offer more features. This is why Apple have won even before Palm launch the Pre, because they’ve missed the point. To better the iPhone, they need to come up with something new altogether, and most importantly to stick to their guns.
Apple have, essentially, one handset. Ok so there was an original iPhone and there are numerous iPod Touchs, but besides a few physical differences they are fundamentally the same, they all run the same software and have the same core capabilities. iPhone owners feel reassured that their purchase won’t be obsolete any time soon, whereas Palm owners have no such assurance. Many people who bought Samsung Omnia / Sony Ericsson X1 / Blackberry Storm / Nokia 5800 / HTC Touch, Diamond etc etc already realise that a strong feature list doesn’t necessarily result in a strong phone. By the time you’ve bought one of these, the manufacturers are already putting the finishing touches to their next offering, and developers in most cases have to consider a different hardware configuration for their software.
With the iPhone it’s so-called weaknesses are often it’s strengths. Take app-switching as raised by beman. The iPhone can only run one app at a time (except for running iPod in the background). I’ve had any number of smartphones, most windows mobile based, and it’s never easy to tell exactly what is running at any given time. Your phone slows down, crashes and frustration ensues. With the iPhone, when you open an application, it is getting all the system resources and therefore it runs as the developer intended, when you close it, it stops running. Your phone is always performing to the best of it’s ability.
You can’t choose a phone based on comparison tables of features, I made that mistake before I bought the iPhone. Go and try one, in the Apple store you can actually pick a real one up and use it(!), and then go to a mobile phone shop and handle a dummy model of the Palm Pre, the comparison will probably be about the same anyway.
The iPhone is commonly referred to as a ‘platform’ in it’s own right, which is no small achievement. Buy one if you want to be sure it’s got some life.
As stated earlier, it’s an impossible question to answer (almost!) no concrete info is available about the new iphone model(s) expected this summer vs. the pre which has yet to be released. I’m with ATT and I’d drop it in a moment; sprint owners around me are frequently roaming – so not the best service either (rural midwest)…so besides the phone make sure the service is good…bad service can make the most cherished phone a piece of scrap. I’m hoping Pre does fabulously simply for the competition it gives the other providers…buy what works best for you and enjoy (who knows, could even be one of the new winmo phones arriving this year:))
The iPhone is for dumbass Mactards and fashion lemmings. Scumbag Steve Jobs says ‘no multitasking because of battery life’, but in reality there’s just not enough free RAM for proper multitasking (45MB after boot, filled by Safari in no time). The Palm Pre is optimized for multitasking with intuitive interface, so it will be good for serious usage. Of course if you want play with dumbass games and fart apps, one at a time, buy the iPhone. No surprise it’s so popular in the US.
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