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Update: Yesterday, I apparently really upset a die hard techhead that obviously is a big fan of the Palm Pre. I apparently angered him with my remark that the Palm Pre is an iClone. So I revised this post, not because he got angry, but to clarify and stand by my personal opinion, based on what I want out of a touchscreen, smartphone. I still think it’s the very best iClone, that’s close to standing on equal footing with the iPhone. It’s in the #2 spot in my book. I imagine I can’t just say this without stating my reasons so..

Detailed reasons why I would stick with my iPhone (not that I wouldn’t):

• Palm Pre is with Sprint. I don’t want Sprint.
• The tactile keyboard is awesome, but too small and it hurts my fingernails.
• The screen is too small.
• I formerly and doubly didn’t like the fact that it didn’t sync with a Mac, but this has recently changed due to markspace.com’s program Missing Sync. (Read the post above this one.)
• I’m just happy with what I’ve got. Why buy something you don’t need. And on that note…
• It does a lot of what the iPhone already does for me very well.

On that last bullet point:
(That’s not to say that it doesn’t do some things better than an iPhone. For one it’s mucho, mucho better at multitasking than an iPhone by leaps and bounds in my honest opinion, and it’s cloud computing abilities (like what Mobile Me does for you Contact and Calendaring) allows you to sync with your already existing web services like Google contacts and calender, Facebook and what not. Read more about this at popsci.com and here. Form your own opinion.)

But in general, I’ve never seen someone get so passionately upset about tech. I thought talking about this stuff was supposed to be fun. Just sayin’.

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Revised Post

I very briefly spoke with Ramsey Mohsen on Facebook, asking for his opinion on the Palm Pre after he visited his local Sprint.

I have been watching, listening and waiting to see what some of the results would be after the Palm Pre launched. So, as a die hard Apple iPhone user (not really), I am giving my personal opinion at long last. In all honesty, I am kind of disappointed with the Palm Pre because I thought it was actually going to bring some ground-breaking feature(s) that would have it stand as a competitor that exceeds the iPhone. Instead, it’s just the very best iClone out there–just giving credit where credit is due. Don’t get me wrong, it does have one particular feature that comes to my mind right now, that I wish the iPhone could do. It allows multiple apps to run in the background. However, with the push notification added in the 3.0 software update, I’m happy with my iPhone.

The Palm Pre is an iClone and yet veeeeery different in it’s own right. But for now I think that was implied in Apple’s first iPhone 3G ad back in 2008–the one device that’s better than an iPhone, is a better iPhone–is true. …so far. The Palm Pre may eventually come out one top. And when and if it does, it’ll be a cool thing to have happened.

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I have been noticing some down-in-the-mouth remarks regarding the iPhone 3.0 release that is to come, which brings long awaited features that should have been a no-brainer from the beginning. Moreover, it’s the latter point for which some are giving Apple a lot of flack (like here) and the point I want to talk about now. In Apple’s defense, YEAH!! That just might be the biggest new features Apple may be bringing to the current iPhone. It would seem logical to me for Apple to focus it’s energy on the next version of the iPhone. Finally. these folks that complain should know better. Apple’s signature move is innovation. The iPhone changed the industry in a single year. But silly and unnecessary complaints about Apple dragging it’s feet for a thing like copy-and-paste pales in comparison to what the iPhone has achieved in the bigger picture.

So in conclusion, I want to tell those obsessive and un-pleased folks to do something wise by just hushing it up. The iPhone is and has lead change and it should be given that credit and that fact should be seen as it’s crowning achievement. Therefore, anything that would come later and supposedly “kill” the iPhone is not, in my view, a killing but a succession….that is if Apple hasn’t already preempted it’s many iPhone-iClone competitors.

Would you agree with my assessment?

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