Full FeedIs the Pre now vulnerable to iPhone comeback?
Wow, Apple let loose a barrage of improvements today at their iPhone 3.0 preview. With these improvements on the celebrated iPhone, is the Pre still looking like the champ it was back in January? If you caught my morning post on what the Pre didn’t want to see, you already know things just got a bit hot in here.
Copy + Paste
I still say it is embarrassing that the iPhone lacked this ever, much less for two years. Their implementation looks pretty though. Palm Pre: of course I have it, fool.
Background
The Pre touts their background applications are just a card swipe away. Apple announces background notifications. While perhaps not as grand a concept as what the Pre has going, battery life was the concern from the Apple camp. Is the Pre just more sophisticated or does it have a bigger battery or will juice time suck?
Contacts
The Pre has got this nailed. So far, it doesn’t look like we’ll see anything from Apple on this one. Yet. Having contact info pulled from various sources automatically is futuristic and I dig it.
Flash
The two candidates would rather we skip this question, nnnkay?
One thing I didn’t mention this morning about the Pre is the ability to just start entering info and let the phone figure out which app you might be thinking of heading to. For example, typing in Jon would bring up relevant contacts, a searchbox for Jon on the net, maybe a book written by Jon, etc. Apple is bringing Spotlight to the iPhone, and they think so highly of it, it will be the left most page of applications or starting point. This says to me that Apple will be pulling out a “today” page so you can sort your notifications and get to your data faster.
I believe the iPhone pulled pretty close to even on this one, on paper at least. What say you? Let us know in the comments.
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I have an iphone which I’m selling and looking forward to the Pre.
1) Apple really showed it’s lack of understanding by forgetting copy+paste… twice!
2) Apple is too controling. I want to run the OS version I prefer, jailbreak if needed, and not be forced to upgrade just to get a new app. Did you know developers can only post one version of their software on the AppStore? Even if they have one that works on an older rev, Apple won’t let them sell it.
3) Sharing applications via bluetooth or wireless. I don’t know if Pre will allow it, PalmOS did. And of course… Apple doesn’t.
Palm has shown itself to be an open platform in the past. I’m hopeful that attitude will be maintained.
on April 7, 2009 at 01:28 PM - LINK