Palm Pre surprisingly good
The first 24h on the Pre (it just started to sell here in Europe/Germany beginning of this week) where surprisingly good (the email smtp authentication issue aside). Pretty snappy, even compared to the first iPhone and iPhone 3G I used before (ok, it’s basically the same WebKit on OpenGL|ES anyway, …).
The biggest pro for the Pre -compare to Apple’s iPhoneOS- are the over-the-air updates. The 1h update process (backup, flash, restore) always annoyed me to no avail). On the Pre it’s 10m over the air, reboot and you’re up-to-date (as I implemented this in my own Linux solutions for years). I only wish they would include the “changes” in the “an update is available” message. At least they have an online article. Though now I wonder why I’m up-to-date with 1.1.3 in Europe (O2), while the US customers run on 1.2.1 :-(
Maybe I find the time for a full review in the upcoming days.
