| Design | 4.4/5 |
| Display & Interface | 4/5 |
| Calling | 4.2/5 |
| Talk time | 3.5/5 |
| Messaging | 4.5/5 |
| Music | 4/5 |
| Video | 4/5 |
| Camera | 2.8/5 |
| Memory | 4/5 |
| Web browsing | 4/5 |
| Connectivity | 4/5 |
| Productivity | 3.8/5 |
| Scheduling | 4.6/5 |
| Laptop sidekick | 0/5 |
| Navigation | 4.2/5 |
| Gaming | 3/5 |
| Mobile services | 3.8/5 |
| Accessories | 3.8/5 |
| Value | 4/5 |
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Pros:
Beautiful, fast interface with innovative, useful new features. Great hardware design. Very good contacts, messaging and multimedia integration. |
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Cons:
Interface has a steep learning curve. Camera and multimedia functions good, but can't compete with the best. |
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| The Palm Pre is a very good phone, and an exciting addition to the smartphone world. We enjoyed our time with the phone, and would have no trouble recommending the phone. But to who would we recommend it? iPhone users might be put off by the less intuitive interface, which would be a shame because they would miss the snappy feel of the e-mail and address book apps. BlackBerry fans might gripe about the smaller QWERTY with those grippy keys. That would be too bad, because the Palm Pre does all the great consolidation of e-mail, contacts and messaging that BlackBerry users take for granted, but extends these to social networking and Internet search, as well. So, here's how to know if you should buy the Pre. Do you use Gmail, Exchange and a variety of e-mail and scheduling services? Do you text, twitter, Google Chat and send messages over Facebook? Do you have dozens of duplicate phone book entries that need some organization? If so, the Palm Pre is an impressive way to bring a lot of disparate services together in an organized, intelligent way, and it might be the smartphone for you. |
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