Gadgetory

hi everyone I'm Chung win and today we're going to take a look at the Palm Pre which is shown here on the left hand side but before we do our Hardware tour we're going to begin with taking a look at the history of webos on the palm pre then we're going to do our Hardware tour and compare the palm pixi to newer devices such as the motorola droid running android 2.0 so when it was released the summer the palm pre were seen as a nice multitasking device that competed with the iphone 3gs or the iphone 3g fom made a great design that fits comfortably in the hands has a nice home button that allows you to multitask and juggle between cards and has a large 3.2 inch capacitive touchscreen that is in case in a hard plastic the pixi on the other hand has a screen that is more like a resistive touchscreen despite its capacitive nature in that it doesn't offer a lot of hard plastic protection and is covered or the LCD is covered by a softer plastic that gives some flex to it the pre when it was released has a webos engine along with energy to allow you to maintain your contacts and manage your social networking needs it has a sliding portrait oriented keyboard which offers more like a membrane keys because the keys in / true too much from the top although it has good tactile feedback the keyboard on the pre is slightly more wide than the pixi keyboard and the biggest complaint with the palm pre is the build quality it does feel solid and nice in your hands but does give a little bit of wobble or flex between the two sliding mechanism as you see here the device is an attractive device in case and in all black glossy plastic and the pre on the other hand has a nice front black glossy appearance to it with a 3 or 2.6 3 inch 320 x 400 pixel touchscreen compared to the 3.2 320 x 480 half vga capacitive touchscreen on the palm pre so the screen is a little bit smaller as the first complaint with the device unfortunately palm doesn't make the pre with out the shortcoming in this body so you'll have to choose form or function and we're going to go ahead and cover some of that in our video today the device has a very attractive and modern device with a black slab finish and keys that protrude out like little islands in this black of what pool of water the keys or raised quite a bit offering a nice touch screen takta or not a nice tactile feel underneath this nice touch screen the keyboard is quite a bit more narrow than the comparable or competing blackberry bold 9700 keyboard as you can see here the keyboards are sup have individually separated keys unlike on the bold which has a more continuous contiguous keyboard layout on the palm pixi you don't have anything on the left side of the device it is a very clean device with very few buttons at the top here you have the power button and also eight three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack on the right hand side of the device at the top you have a toggle switch for the ringer so you can quickly put it into silent or vibrate or turn on the ringer when you head in and out of a classroom or office conference room you do have volumes up and down and on the bottom right you do have a micro USB charging port which is under a magnetic flap so it automatically pulls itself in once you release the device that we have here has a touchstone capable back cover and it looks like there are two speakers here but in reality the device only has one speaker it has a 2 megapixel camera along with an LED flash in the center back the touchstone compatible compatible that cover attaches the device and charges the device magnetically to the touchstone charger here which you can have the device on portrait or in landscape mode the touchstone charger is intelligent enough to sense that when you have a phone call in the devices connected to the touchstone charger the device will actually automatically turn on its speakerphone function so the first negative thing about the palm pixi is that the screen is a little bit smaller than the palm pre in reality when you're using the device you don't really notice that too much but once you get notifications in the screen shifts up a little and you do have any notification bar here at the bottom which is the webOS you I method of not having obtrusive pop-up notifications like on the iPhone the downside is that once there are notifications coming in the screen gets scrunched in smaller and you do realize that you have less screen real estate when this happens the second thing is that unlike the palm pre you don't have Wi-Fi on the device we didn't find this to be a problem as we found that Sprint's now network with evdo rev a was quite fast and ubiquitous where we are so coverage isn't really a problem the pixi also issues the palm pre slender home button for juggling and managing task which is a hardware button for a capacitive touch area that is integrated with the gesture area here on the bottom so if you have a card open and where we're going to open the email card if you tap on the center here that's glowing right now it minimizes it down a little so you can open another card such as a calendar card here and this way you can juggle and multitask between different cards the palm pixi utilizes Qualcomm's 600 megahertz processor which is the same speed but does feel a little bit more laggy and slow on the palm pixi when you're a palm pre user for new smartphone users they shouldn't notice too much of a lag and the palm pixi does a great job where pom excels is in its email application here or you do have a unified inbox for all your accounts but more so than that email setup is a breeze all you need to do to set up emails and that includes gmail AOL and Yahoo who accounts including you know other accounts such as corporate and other imap and obscure email addresses all you need is your email address and your password and palm does a great job so the email experience is very comparable to the blackberry on bis email service where email setup is seamless and painless so you don't need to know all your ports and different imap protocols and passwords and SS l's and other jargon all you need is really your password and email address and that's where the palm pixi and the palm experience shines however when we're talking about this energy engine which is a way for you to manage your contacts and integrate your contacts with your social media pom needs to catch up to more current devices like webos for instance let's pull up Anton's contact which is currently synced with my google contacts as well as my facebook clicking on the facebook doesn't really do anything except for it just sinks Anton's picture to his facebook earth with that is on his facebook account to my contacts on the motorola droid if you pull up Anton's contact it takes you and you tap on his facebook link it actually takes you to a Facebook page where you can view his info photos and write on anton's wall which is more of an integrated experience and something that we would like palm to do with the next revision of webos moreover palm utilizes a very capable webkit browser which renders pages pretty quickly and accurately you do notice a little bit of missing screen real estate if you're a palm pre user and have the larger screen with the 320 x 480 pixels versus at 320 x 400 so you're missing 80 pixels on the vertical resolution the palm pre and the palm pixi are not really successors but really are closely related devices unfortunately for those who prefer the tablet form factor with the front facing qrd palm didn't really utilize its strength and the pre and port everything that the pre did so well with the faster processor larger screen and Wi-Fi into the pixi rather this is a device with a lot of trade-offs you do trade-off you know some of the more advanced and higher features of the palm pre for a gorgeous device that is slim and has a very narrow profile on the palm pixi however the device at $99 through sprint and palm com or available for thirty dollars or twenty five dollars on amazon and let's talk and walmart is a great value for beginning smartphone owners thanks for watching and be sure to tune in to pocketnow.com to read our full review and impressions on the palm pixi this has been our first impression on video for the palm pixi thanks for watching