The Pre needs a serious software upgrade. The processor itself should be fast enough, the application layer is a bit too webby, so probably wastes a few bogomip

The Pre needs a serious software upgrade. The processor itself should be fast enough, the application layer is a bit too webby, so probably wastes a few bogomips with all those layers -- but still, with some clever load optimizing and caching, at least launch time should be faster (and/or appear to be faster). I just got one yesterday, and both speed and build quality are slightly disappointing. One of the main reasons I got one was due to the fact that it's much cheaper on a monthly basis (well, here in Germany), and I thought about having another mobile platform to develop for (my iPod touch should suffice for most iPhone dev work I'm going to do). But the app catalog is somewhat disappointing. That should've been settled before the device was released, especially if you want to be compared to the iPhone.