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what's up guys and girls jon rettinger here they review for you of the Palm Pre by palm for sprint I've had a chance to use the palm pre for quite a while now I've had it since launch day and overall I've been really impressed the phone but we'll get to that in a minute since first and foremost this is a phone let's talk about phone quality on the palm pre particularly sprints network well network strength is going to vary by region to region depending on where you are where I am I've got a very strong spread signal and I can't say that voice quality is absolutely fantastic on the pre people could not even tell i was on a cell phone I couldn't tell they were on a cell phone there was no no white noise there was no buzzing it sounded almost landline quality so overall whether that's the pre or sprints network or more likely a combination of both very impressed if you're going to use this as a primary phone you will not be disappointed I filmed the previous video talking about five things I love and hate about the parade so I'm not going to go into detail about the best thing than the worst things i'm going to give you an overview of the phone so no real review of the pre would be complete without a mention of web OS and that is the operating system that Dupree is running on I gotta say it is really fantastic the card management system meaning the way that you multitask and manager different applications and programs that are open really is a fantastic implementation the multitasking was quick it was seamless and most importantly actually became fun to use so if you're looking for a device that you need to multitask on the pre really is a good way to go and when I first started playing with the prea kept thinking why do I need to multitask you know I've been using an iphone for the past couple years and never really had a need for it and the more I started to play with the pre the more I started to realize how important multitasking is fleece for me I don't have that much time to get done but I need to get done on a mobile phone that don't involve calling or that doesn't involve calling if I need to send an email check a web page or leave a comment or reply while that page is loading or doing things I like to you know be proactive so we're ordinarily with an iphone another device I would have to wait for a page to load or wait for application to load I can open up something else and I can work on something else while it's all page is loading for example if I want to check my email what if email to load I can check my Twitter page while I'm doing that a reply to a comment really makes things nice and easy or fine looking at a PDF document with the built-in PDF viewer if I want to reference a web page that's making the PDF I can minimize it essentially go to the web look at the page referencing and come right back the ways you can use multi tasking Ruby are endless and the pre handles them very well I had 12 cards open at once which was fairly memory intensive and the pre handed it like a champ with no slowdown I did experience slow down when I got to 15 cards open and really if you have 15 applications open you're probably going to have some bigger issues one of the knocks on the pre has been battery life people are saying battery life is not very strong on the pre and that's both true and false and in my experience was both true and false so battery life one you don't leave cards open as actually fantastic I was able to get through a full day no problem with around forty percent charge that's with browsing web pages that's what making phone calls even using spreads navigation but when you leave cards open and you lock the phone and put it back in your pocket or purse wherever you keep it you're still using system memory and system memory uses battery and that's where you're going to notice a significant battery drain so if you leave even one card open whereas the dead of the day I would have forty percent I would now have maybe ten or fifteen percent so if you use proper battery management proper program management you'll have no problem getting a full day's use out of the pre so the next thing that I want to talk about is the integration the synergy that palm is calling essentially what that is is it integrates all of your contacts all of your email all your calendars will be in to one master list you're the ability to control what that is and that was one of the things that found it kind of gimmicky to me but now that I've actually stated in practice it's really become invaluable for example i use google cow there's a lot any time I go into google calendars and make a change on my calendar it automatically gets sent to the pre now that's nothing revolutionary a lot of devices will sync wirelessly with Google calendars but I also use exchange server so I want to update my exchange calendar gets updated in the same calendar as well which is quite nice and all my gmail contacts all my contacts of exchange aren't stored in separate contact lists stored just in one master list it really makes it nice and easy for content contact and calendar management try saying that fast content contact contacts and calendar management really is quite quite nice on the parade so as far as I'm concerned the palm pre and the web OS is a network good meaning something that gets more value and more people use it that's really one of the detriments of the praise right now the web OS available on one device on one carrier justin happens to be one of the smallest carriers in the US that of course being sprint so the inherent value a device like this is going to lie in the hands of developers whether or not they want to spend their time developing for it to help the device reach its full potential and if there aren't a lot of people using it doesn't have that wide adoption developers aren't going to come flock to it like they have to the iphone and particularly the App Store but if this is released for other carriers like it's rumored and if the operating system makes the leap to other forum patches other devices the palm pre has a sari webOS has a lot of potential and the palm pre being launched advice I think is really going to assure that in the screen on the palm pre is capacitive much like the iphone and the g1 although I will say it was not as responsive as the iphones sometimes have to push things really almost hard with the fat part of your finger to let it know you're making contact it's not always but I will definitely say that it was not as responsive as the iphone resolution why is the same as the iphone they're both bright you can watch videos on it fantastically really the screen just pops out of you so no problem there on the screen and all hardware was is another knock people had on the palm pre they thought the hardware felt flimsy I think the hardware wise and actually very impressed slider mechanism can often time to feel cheap and can break but in the now almost two weeks I've had the phone a slider mechanism still feels dirty and I love the way the phone feels in the hand that sort of pebble feeling that it it's got and it really just makes it nice and again fun to hold it fits in your pocket no problem doesn't create a big lump it's just a very nice thin profile having a full qwerty keyboard has also been very nice although the keyboard on the pre is relatively small and it's definitely going to take some getting used to or nearly I would say don't worry about it the autocorrect will take care of any fat thumb errors but at time of this filming the pretty does not have autocorrect which is a little bit on the annoying side I do think that palm and sprint will update it to support autocorrect some sort of dictionary system because this can be updated over the air with firmware so I think that there are a lot of changes coming to the palm pre and I think that auto update will certainly be one of the biggest so there are a ton of things that I can talk about in this video and I've done it really seven or eight and nine video series on different features of the pre so far more particular information definitely check that out but generally and overall I can say the pre has been fantastic I'm excited by a potential of the platform another device I think this is the first true competitor to the iphone I know it's hard to not compare this to the iphone but on its own on its own merits on its own legs the palm pre really stands tall and really sounds proud almost above the competition I think that it's a robust operating system it's a full-featured smartphone it offers really a lot of killer killer features that I've been very happy to use and I've enjoyed using things like the gesture control on the bottom and the launcher when you swipe up on your finger really are just great features that augments a fantastic operating system the fact that this is only first release again is a very exciting process to think about what palm might do in the future with other updates and other devices so overall do i recommend the palm pre one hundred percent i can recommend the palm pre to you i definitely recommend that you look at the pre if you're considering an iphone 3g or 3gs you may prefer the iphone operating system but you owe it to yourself to look at the pre so you can see what device is best for you that is assuming that you get sprint service i think they are really close rivals now is this gonna be my daily driver I don't know right now it is and I'm enjoying using it with the iphone 3gs i may switch back and give that the daily use that I had with previous iphones but i have to say if i do continue to use this as my regular phone i will not be disappointed browser why's everything it's a fantastic device on a one-to-five scale I give the palm pre really really really solid four or three quarters it just missing a few key features that I like to see like i mentioned the autocorrect and some sort of on-screen keyboard as well so guys I hope you enjoyed what are your thoughts about the palm pre are you going to consider it in place of an iphone or a g1 or any other new smartphones that are coming out the summer or the future or your now you're going to give it a shot you know it's a I think it's worth definite looking at so guys for exclusive contents be sure to follow me on twitter twitter com / John for lakers you can ask the questions there and sometimes I have giveaways or announce live shows so we have a I think we have a good time check out link in the sidebar and I will see you guys in the next video