Palm Pre Plus making top lists around the web 16
The year is 2010, and despite being on the market for almost a year, the Palm Pre (and the closely related "Plus" version) is continuing to gain accolades in the tech press circles and win prestigious design awards. First up is ZDNet's Matthew Miller (who is also the editor of sister site Nokia Experts) who ranks the Pre Plus at number 6 on his top ten smartphones of 2010, citing the notifications and excellent user interface in his list of reasons for including the device.
Next up is a PC World piece that's been syndicated on MSNBC that rounds up the best smartphones on each carrier. The Pre ranks first on Sprint, third on Verizon, and you can bet that if the article had been written post AT&T launch, it'd be in the top three there as well.
We've yet to see any hints of what kind of hardware (beyond fabled tablet speak, of course) is set to come down the pike from Palm this year, but if their previous design efforts are any indication, 2010 is going to be a year full of awards and accolades for the company too.
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The awards are great PR for the company.
Or the awards are on account of a great PR department?
mmm idk i heard from an insider there will be an announcement this week about "getting Palmed this fall" o.0 dunno how reliable that is but just thought i'd say something. Hopefully they'll announce something soon.
And on Precentral.net The Palm Pre & Plus is the # 1 smartphone
That is an excellent point!
Wouldn't it be awesome if Palm came out in July and released a storm of new hardware/software? That would be amazing.
I'm a big fan of the WebOS and the Pre, but lately the phone just drags...
Everything is seems slower. Watching videos of the iPhone and Android OS's is really making me think perhaps I need to rethink which phone I have.
I'm pretty loyal at the moment to sprint so obviously iPhone is off the table (plans/service sucks on AT&T anyway).
Sprint gods, if you are reading this, please bring the Pre/Pixi plus to Sprint!
freeridestyle you are right, they do have a great PR department. This is like saying windows Vista is way better than Windows 7 (which it is, but it drags a$$). WebOS is definitely way better than anything out there but its so slow...
I predict that launching the Plus phones on Sprint will be the next hardware move you see from Palm, followed by major announcements before the Christmas for models available in Q1.
No no, no Plus phones on Sprint. We want new new phones on Sprint.
Palm is going for shock and awe! I can feel it in my bones!
PS. How did the Pre finish behind the Nexus One at PC World? Can you even buy those any more? I thought the Nexus One was considered a major flop...
I am pretty content with my Pre but what drives me bat &*%# crazy is the keyboard. I'm willing to deal with it but I'm thinking I may just warranty it in the time being. The double typing and spacing is just maddening, MADDENING I SAY!!!
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Didn't your keyboard improve with the last os upgrade? Mine has worked great since and ALWAYS works great when warm. The upgrade essentially fixed the double letters and spaces.
Re PR - anyone else notice that NY Times tech columnist Pogue (who loved Pre when it came out) has started to mention in consistently whenever he mentions top phones/operating systems now? He had loved the Pre (and was a major reason I waited for it to come out on Verizon), but essentially dropped it since last August. Now it's back in his columns.
The latest OS patches cleaned up the phone quite a lot but you're right, the keyboard is dreck. I'd love a version that goes with either a soft keyboard or a slideout hard keyboard that actually has room to reach the darned keys (including a delete key in addition to the backspace key--what's up with that?). Maybe both, but I'd punt the hard keyboard in a heartbeat. A larger screen would be nice, too. It's all about a big screen.
So, let's see what they come up with.
I would not call a 6th place and a few 3rd places "accolades in the tech press circles" The Pre Plus phone is way better then most of the phone these "tech people" say are better. I don't trust anything these Tech sites, they are usually wrong or have no idea what they are talking about. They list specs and comment on how popular they are, those site are for the non techie people who want to be cool and get the cool new device. I have introduced a few people to the Pre and they all think it is the most amazing phone. These are people who are business minded people, to the social butter flies, to your average person to your super nerds. The best publicity for Palm and the Pre is for all of the users to show other people their Pres. They speak for themselves!
There is something wrong with the way the Facebook Share is formatted. For some reason, it doesn't show the article, just a tag line from PreCentral. I usally have to post your articles through Google Reader. Fix this... ??!!??