Comments on: Palm Pre Bashing: Continued… http://webos.org/2009/06/03/palm-pre-bashing-continued/ Unofficial Palm Community Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eric Rosen http://webos.org/2009/06/03/palm-pre-bashing-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-828 Eric Rosen Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:03:10 +0000 http://palmwebos.org/?p=711#comment-828 All I can say is this....... I waited for 3 months, patiently, mind you, for the Pre to come out. I raced to the store, anxious to see what Palm had turned out, and after much anticipation, I came to the following conclusion: Palm's marketing and branding department far exceeds their new product development dept. This is as true for their design engineers as their software developers. Not only is the Pre akin to holding dull knives in your hand when its flipped open, the OS is slow to respond, not intuitive, and harder to maneuver through than my treo 700p. I am the first to say that I wish all of the above wasn't true. I wish Palm had designed their phone to be more like a Hummer than a Fischer Price Toy. I wish they had underpromised and overdelivered. However, they did not. I was one of the ranting and raving fans, completely bought into their marketing campaign, and after playing with the phone for 30 seconds, 30 minutes, and then even going back to a different Sprint store again, just to give the benefit of the doubt that I had sampled a faulty demo, I only have one thing to say: THe Pre may be in the Top 5 phones right now, b/c no other OS can touch what its capable of doing, but you can't maintain market leadership simply by default. Apple is going to cream the Pre, as is the next gen version of the Android. The Pre has no video, no flash capabilities (i mean software, not cameraspeak), and feels like a toy in your hand. No amount of software upgrades can alter its design specs. I switched from PC to Apple a few years ago, and with much resistance.......Given the vast differential between the PC blue screen of death and lovely Apple experience over the last 2 years, I can only imagine that, after the touch-screen texting-learning curve, I will be as in love with my Iphone as I am with my Macbook Pro. CDMA, GSM, its all wonderful, but without a solid design and dynamite OS, networks don't matter at all. Better to have a slightly slower network and a phone that rocks, than a lightning fast network with a phone that was more hype than excellence, and more sizzle than steak. All I can say is this…….

I waited for 3 months, patiently, mind you, for the Pre to come out.

I raced to the store, anxious to see what Palm had turned out, and after much anticipation, I came to the following conclusion:

Palm’s marketing and branding department far exceeds their new product development dept.

This is as true for their design engineers as their software developers.

Not only is the Pre akin to holding dull knives in your hand when its flipped open, the OS is slow to respond, not intuitive, and harder to maneuver through than my treo 700p.

I am the first to say that I wish all of the above wasn’t true.

I wish Palm had designed their phone to be more like a Hummer than a Fischer Price Toy.

I wish they had underpromised and overdelivered.

However, they did not.

I was one of the ranting and raving fans, completely bought into their marketing campaign, and after playing with the phone for 30 seconds, 30 minutes, and then even going back to a different Sprint store again, just to give the benefit of the doubt that I had sampled a faulty demo, I only have one thing to say:

THe Pre may be in the Top 5 phones right now, b/c no other OS can touch what its capable of doing, but you can’t maintain market leadership simply by default.

Apple is going to cream the Pre, as is the next gen version of the Android.

The Pre has no video, no flash capabilities (i mean software, not cameraspeak), and feels like a toy in your hand. No amount of software upgrades can alter its design specs.

I switched from PC to Apple a few years ago, and with much resistance…….Given the vast differential between the PC blue screen of death and lovely Apple experience over the last 2 years, I can only imagine that, after the touch-screen texting-learning curve, I will be as in love with my Iphone as I am with my Macbook Pro.

CDMA, GSM, its all wonderful, but without a solid design and dynamite OS, networks don’t matter at all.

Better to have a slightly slower network and a phone that rocks, than a lightning fast network with a phone that was more hype than excellence, and more sizzle than steak.

]]> By: mtm http://webos.org/2009/06/03/palm-pre-bashing-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-723 mtm Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:32:12 +0000 http://palmwebos.org/?p=711#comment-723 don't forget it will eventually be available both in CDMA & GSM which covers a wide spectrum of the market don’t forget it will eventually be available both in CDMA & GSM which covers a wide spectrum of the market

]]> By: PalmWebOS.org http://webos.org/2009/06/03/palm-pre-bashing-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-715 PalmWebOS.org Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:49:52 +0000 http://palmwebos.org/?p=711#comment-715 The Palm Pre WILL be successful. People are expecting it to be the #1 phone on the market - it won't be. But it will be one of the Top 5 phones EASILY which is, no matter how you look at it, a raving success. The future of WebOS and Palm has to start somewhere and the Palm Pre is a tremendous start. The Palm Pre WILL be successful. People are expecting it to be the #1 phone on the market – it won’t be. But it will be one of the Top 5 phones EASILY which is, no matter how you look at it, a raving success.

The future of WebOS and Palm has to start somewhere and the Palm Pre is a tremendous start.

]]> By: angrypablo http://webos.org/2009/06/03/palm-pre-bashing-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-712 angrypablo Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:24:52 +0000 http://palmwebos.org/?p=711#comment-712 The whole point of the pre is to bring this new platform into center stage for all to see.... so yes his disagreement is real, and in that respect the pre will be a great success. The whole point of the pre is to bring this new platform into center stage for all to see…. so yes his disagreement is real, and in that respect the pre will be a great success.

]]> By: dartrax http://webos.org/2009/06/03/palm-pre-bashing-continued/comment-page-1/#comment-710 dartrax Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:40:58 +0000 http://palmwebos.org/?p=711#comment-710 So you are saying: The Palm Pre may not be successfull, but Web OS will. So you are in fact not disagreeing, are you? ;) So you are saying: The Palm Pre may not be successfull, but Web OS will. So you are in fact not disagreeing, are you? ;)

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