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I think a better title for this article would be "Why the Palm Pre Will Fail to be an Immediate Smash Hit Like the iPhone". (Maybe there wasn't enough space) H

• cdibona 17y ago
  Indeed! I got a chance to handle the pre and it's not a bad phone. I had a bunch of nits with it, but it was a pre-production phone. I think it'll do well. Crap, this post is pretty contentless....hmm...one nit they won't fix is the screen is , like the iphone, bezeless, but they take it a bit futher and mask/darken the edges of the ui to make the screen a more integrated thing with the whole device. That said, it makes it feel thicker and not in a substantive way. I also felt the slide out mechanism had too much friction to it in the middle of the slide out. (but I think they can fix that?). But compared to a genera=berry or ericcsson it's wildly better. I'd say its philisophically between my droid and the iphone, but I'd prefer either of them to it. So, if they can get the price point well under both of them it'll do fine. (the price has more to do with a phones popularity than most other factors)