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We are all nut jobs.  We spent 2 hours yesterday hearing Apple ramble through Mac updates, Exchange protocols and App demos all to hear, “we’ve a new standard bearer - the iPhone 3G S.”  Finally, we get word that this new phone look almost identical on the outside and all the changes are internal.  So now we know the competitors for America’s Next Top SuperPhone.

Let’s start with the flaws.  In the end, we’re deciding against the pitfalls of one, versus the pitfalls of another.  For the Palm Pre, the biggest flaw seems to be the quantity of 3rd party applications.  There just are not that many going and the store itself is in beta.  Not ready for prime time.  It took Apple a year to figure out that 3rd party apps would be a big deal, but Palm’s got to fight the latest Apple, not Apple-two-years-ago.

Were you a bit disappointed with the new iPhone too?  I’ve come to expect to be “wowed” by Apple and frankly that just isn’t happening.  Worse still, the thorn in Apple’s side seems to be AT&T whose name was left off many of the super-fun things you can do with the new iPhone thanks to network issues.  Heck, the event itself brought down AT&T network in San Fransisco to a crawl. 

Note to AT&T: when the technorati is going to gather, beef up the network.  It makes you look silly that your partners event brings down the device they made and sell to you exclusively.

We could talk about video (iPhone 3G S has it, Pre doesn’t) or memory (8GB for Pre, 16GB for iPhone at same price) or physical keyboard or camera flash; but which do you put more faith into: 50,000 apps vs. few for Pre or Sprint’s “We Try Harder” network or AT&T’s “we’ll get our act together in the fall”? 

As an iPhone owner, I have little desire to upgrade to the “S.”  The Pre however still has my attention.  Anyone else feeling the same?

For more specifics in the battle, read this: [PC World]