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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here with a full review for you of the palm pre plus for AT&T Wireless this is going to set you back 149 bucks after contract and mail-in rebates it's a very similar to phone to what we saw on verizon with their pre plus and of course with sprint on theirs so before we get to the full review turn over some of the specs to refresh your memory on what the palm pre plus offers it's of course a quad-band 3g phone it weighs about four point eight nine ounces dimension one is its 2.3 inches by three point nine five point six seven of course it is a full touchscreen it's a three point one inch capacitive touchscreen the resolution of 320 x 480 i can show about 16.7 million colors the screen is very bright and really is nice for viewing all kinds of media of course it has a slide out qwerty keyboard there is not an on-screen keyboard option so you're stuck with a physical qwerty we'll talk about that later on in the review keep it on with the specs it is running thomas proprietary operating system called web OS palm of course just bought by HP so now it's HP's proprietary operating system web OS it's got 16 gigabytes of internal storage 15 of which are available to you does not have a micro SD card case cube guys were wondering battery life is brand now the strong as i would have liked a tough time they claim you get about five hours standby time about 350 hours it's only eleven hundred and fifty mili amp hour battery and it goes very quickly through one day you're definitely gonna have to charge the same on a daily basis so things i'm going to talk about it probably reminiscent of other palm pre reviews that i've done as the same lingering issues both positive and negative still apply first I'll of webos for multitasking it is a complete and utter powerhouse so let me give you an example of how multitasking works here you've probably seen this on other demonstration so I'll go ahead open up say the phone let's say I want to open up the browser as well go ahead and tap that home button right there open up the browser and it keeps these things open with called the deck of cards interface i can keep open early as many as I'd like and i can scroll through and launch anyone I want and when I want to close an application I just swipe it up this is probably the best implementation multitasking I've ever seen I mean it's really just a very very very impressive easy to use intuitive and almost fun operating system it's just very well done so the browser I've shown you in multiple videos it is does feature multi-touch pinch-to-zoom the 3.1 inch screen is bright shows text crippling crisply and pages render very quickly so inputting text has always been one of the issues that I've had with the palm pre plus I like having a physical keyboard however the physical keyboard on the pre plus is very small and really hard to type on if you look at it by comparison with its stablemate say the palm pixi the keyboard is much easier to type on on the pixi and let me tell you why on the pre plus you have these ridges on the side to that age so when you try and type your fingers always end up hitting that Ridge and the keys are very small I've got pretty normal sized thumbs if I put it right there see it covers up I'm gonna have big percentage of the keyboard even my forefinger covered up a big percentage of the keyboard on something like the pixi for example you don't have that Ridge on the side so your fingers can rest off the end and it's much easier to hit the keys they can be a bit more raised as well because note has that good sliding mechanism that goes on top of it so as far as physical keyboards going txt enter it's going to take a lot to get used to the keyboard here on the pre plus and it would be okay if there was a really fully functional autocorrect built into whether your word processing your typing an email whatever you might be doing but there isn't one so really you find yourself making a lot of mistakes and navigating back and forth to correct those mistakes can be quite difficult you have to always be very exact three touch or you have to use the arrows to go back it's just not the most elegant of typing experience definitely something that I was disappointed with with the pre plus let me unlock the phone here in the unlock students actually kind of neat slide that up the angle was been ok so let's sort of the keyboard the cut copy and paste functionalities bit squirrely as well you have to sort it tap on one side of the screen and drag text it's just not very not a very elegant implementation it doesn't really hold true to how elegant the rest the operating system is itself but cut copy and paste and no auto correct or two very killer features that are missing from the phone so that being said is this a viable alternative to some of the other smartphones in a team teas lineup moves notably if they're looking at this ship probably looking at the iphone as well I would say that most definitely the pre plus is a fantastic alternative to the iphone actually use this in a primary phone for a few weeks now is very happy with it picture some really cool things for instance something called synergy which pulls down all of your contacts from the web or your Facebook Twitter turn all your contacts you have in the cloud into one unified address book one unified calendar and makes a lot easier to manage your friend so if your friends have facebook photo it'll pull down that photo music as your caller ID if you have a calendar with Gmail and a calendar with your exchange it'll pull it all into one subject in multiple places get your information that's a feature that I really liked about the pre plus and it offers a lot of very cool design features and it does a decent amount actually more than I would expect though if you're looking for a smartphone this is not a bad way to go it does have a camera now with video recording on the back it's got a YouTube resolution starts got a YouTube player the camera is three megapixel the video camera is vga resolution at 30 frames per second it shoots an impact for it see it right on the back does have a LED flash speakers quite loud and all of the pre pluses are actually shipping with the inductive charging capable back that'll work with the palm touchstone wireless charger the sliding mechanism has been improved actually from the verizon version it's much more crisp I don't feel like the phone's going to break when I slide it which is nice I so we've had some issues with the risin one certainly the original palm or there's no sprint one it quite works so well and I always worried that was going to break this seems to a bit fixed the keys are a little bit better type on than they were in previous iterations but as I mentioned they're just not where I like them to be so if you're can deal with those limitations i recommend going to an ATT store and trying out the pre plus try out the keyboard make sure you can use it and it's something that you're okay with and you want the multitasking powerhouse that is the pre this is going to be a fantastic option certainly you can wait until iphone OS 4.1 julissa late around the summer and you can get multitasking there as well though not at elegant implementation as we see here from calm and you guys hope you enjoyed jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo and i'll see you in the next video