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what's up guys jon rettinger here the palm pre for sprint has really been a polarizing device some love it some hate it and neck spirit I thought I slice it down the middle and do a new segment called five things so this is five things that I love about the palm pre and five things that i hate about the palm pre so let's go ahead and get started the first do them to start on the negative side and we'll do five things that i hate about the palm pre the number one thing that I really really don't like about the palm pre there's no autocorrect on a keyboard so when you type a word the keyboard is relatively small and as you type you know your might have fat thumb and type a wrong key it's not going to autocorrect you you have to hit the delete button go back and retype your word that's quite annoying and it's something that I think palm can definitely fix with an over-the-air firmware update not expected to be fixed as one of really the first features that get patched on the device but right now still there and it's still totally annoying so the next thing sort of on that same keyboard main is a no on-screen keyboard I know that's kind of a hard thing to say can't really have your cake and eat it too in a reference to the physical keyboard but you look at a device like the g1 that now has an on-screen keyboard and a physical keyboard as well sometimes you want to just type a real quick letter I certainly prefer a tactile keyword for most of my typing if I just want to type a real short message or send a yes or no would be that just failed do it on screen or at least have the option to do it on screen as opposed to sliding this up not that I don't enjoy sweating it up but it would be nice to have something on screen so the next thing that I'm really not a fan of the palm pre i'm going to give you guys a demonstration of it right here is I go on YouTube quite a bit on the parade I like to read the comments on my videos and other videos and on other mobile browsers for instance the iphone the blackberry storm even the g1 i am able to click on a video and go in and view the content however on the g1 so let me show you guys talking about here and zoom on in I am right now on my YouTube page and if I go ahead and click on one of these videos to click on the first one instead of opening up the web page that would show the video and just say it can't be played and let me read the comments it opens up the YouTube a YouTube application so i have no way of going through and reading the comments on my videos of your videos or any other videos on the palm pre it is a little done the annoying exact i really like to go through and read the comments so on a sign up w 2 player on here is quite nice so let's keep going the next thing that I hate about the palm pre is the X there aren't any there really only about 20 apps and they're only about seven them I think art are worthwhile I know it's because it's a new device if I just learning how to program for it and they're still web apps hasn't been a native SDK release yet but at least right now to aren't that many x1 things that i love about the iphone was just the thousands and thousands of thousands of apps and i don't have those options right now at the palm pre i think that will get fixed though i think that more apps are coming in the days and weeks ahead especially we're eating up to the iphone 3gs launch I think sprint is really going to try and push the pre a little bit more so I would expect the apps to becoming mentally the next thing and this is really really really annoying for me I like to view web pages in landscape so let's say for instance i I'm looking at my bookmarks and landscape right now and I don't want to type a URL don't let me create a type of URL in any web page is to go back up to portrait and then start typing landscape is not fully functional yet on the palm crates really only for viewing you know have the same capabilities that you have in portrait as you do in landscape that's really annoying time viewing a web page I've got it zoomed in right where I want it and reading okay i want to go to another one I gotta rotate it letter realign itself and then type in the URL really annoying I'm not not a big fan of n so those are five things that i hate about the palm pre oh no so minor annoyances but there's still things that I would like to see included so now with the negative out of the way I was really animated negative let's go to some of the positive things and the five things that I love about the palm pre and we're going to start with multitasking in the card interface which really is the bread and butter of the palm pre I love the cards onto your check out my other videos for how they work Vicky able to multitask is fantastic I can say open up the web browser and while the page is loading I can go in and check my stocks or wallet page is loading I can go in and check my email I can leave my email application open and go and play a game that I've downloaded one of the applications it really is just very nice and it's fun to use to close applications by flicking the cards off the screen it really is fun and I've got a kind of joy using my phone I let my sad little bit silly but for you gadget heads out there you know what I'm talking about when you get a new toy a new phone or video game console whatever it might be just enjoy using it the palm pre really falls in that category I just like using it I find myself looking for an excuse to text or checking my email maybe more than I did because it's fun it really had just been an overall enjoyable experience with the pretty so the next thing that I love about the palm pre moving on to number two is the physical keyboard I really like having a physical keyboard fact I forgot how much I like having a physical keyboard I've been using the iphone for the past two years it is really nice have your fingers actually hit buttons I've gotten very good at typing with non physical virtual keyboards but I gotta say I can revert very quickly back to actual buttons and it is really nice to have that tactile feedback a quite a fan of physical keyboards in general on the palm pre it's a little bit small us a little bit cramped but i still prefer having a small cramped keyboard over not having a keyboard at all the next thing that i love about the palm pre and this is not computer for everybody is the size and the dimensions of it it just fits in your hand so nicely it really does feel like a river stone it was meant to be designed for its small it's thin fits in your pocket really easily feels good in the hand I think the build quality is actually very solid I just like the feel the phone itself it's really isn't anything to do with the operating system it's just the from a hardware perspective I really like the way it feels with the soft touch back that comes with the touchstone wireless charger just feels nice to me again makes it sort of fun to play with so the next thing that I like this is something that I never thought I would like this is definitely vary by region as I've been thrilled with sprint service there evdo rev a network is lightning fast as you saw in my comparison videos the voice quality has been great I have not had a single dropped call with the pre which is quite nice I like all the sprint services the navigation the sprint TV everything kind of rolled into one for that one price point is really nice sprint suppose you guys don't know how these all-inclusive packages that give you a limited calling text voice data unlimited everything really for one price in the u.s. it's ninety-nine dollars for a single plan for everything and I really like that i'm quite happy with sprint if you guys get good sprint service by your house or wherever you live definitely consider the the pump rate as an option and the last thing that I really like about the palm pre it's nothing I can't point my finger on it and say look at this but it's a potential of the device I like the web OS I like that relies on the internet and I think that it has a lot of potential to utilize that for web-based applications I think eventually much like the iphone will be opened up native applications they can take advantage of the hardware of the processor of the screen a physical keyboard I think the potential is absolutely fantastic I mean imagine being able to play games using the actual keyboard for controls imagine an nes emulator or any other games you actually have actual buttons while you're playing I think the platform is going to grow it's just really a rev a right now it's just come out in the first form many other devices are going to be running the same operating system I'm certain of it and the coming months I think that webos just has a lot of potential I'm excited to see what palm does with it and what new features they add how they augment the platform so guys new feature was five things that I love and hate hope you enjoyed what are five things that you love or hate about the palm pre you know it doesn't have to be five you can have one or two things that you love or three that you hate what do you guys think about the pre in general and I hope you enjoyed for exclusive content sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers I announce some contests over there you can ask me questions I now and sometimes secret live shows that I do so really can get it all on Twitter so definitely check it out i'll put a link in the sidebar hope you guys enjoyed that will see you in the next video bye