My video review of the Palm Pre aired this week, which you can watch below. It truly is a beautiful phone with a great interface. As I wrote in my print review, the operating system's synergy makes mobile life convenient: For example, it easily manages multiple e-mail accounts, imports contacts from Facebook and Google, and has a layered calendar for Outlook, Facebook and Google events. I'm also a fan of a camera (with flash! squee!), and how you can have multiple programs open at the same time. And for iTunes users, the phone will sync up with iTunes when connected to a computer.
But why, oh why did they design the keyboard to be on the narrow part of the phone? Why not have it flip out longways to be more spread out? However, it wasn't too tough to type on -- but I mostly used my nails to type.
Although I love the phone, there are some little downers to keep in mind: The Pre doesn't have a way to edit or create Microsoft documents like Word or Excel; this function reportedly is coming soon. It also doesn't record video -- something that pretty much every other dinky phone on the market can do. (Sigh.) Palm said they may look into adding video recording in the future. (And while I'm at it, is anyone else perplexed as to why it took the iPhone two years to add video? Seriously! So many "average" phones on the market record video, that it really is surprising to me when a phone doesn't have that feature.)
Since so much has already been said about the phone, I took part of this week's 60 Second Review to answer some of your questions:
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