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The Sprint Palm Pre is now on sale for $199.99 at Amazon. Sprint Palm Pre smartphone does all of things you need a phone for extremely well- email, texting, web browsing, and navigation. The Web OS makes the apps and possibilities endless.

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- Sprint Palm Pre cell phone photos

Pros:
- Beautiful physical design
- Multi-tasking
- Ease of syncing and backing up contact information
- Great web browser
- Excellent email and messaging options
- Easy to read screen

Sprint Palm Pre user reviews:

By Daniel S Rimar – Palm Pre review

• The Web browser is fantastic. In October the Pre will be one of the few smart phones with Adobe Flash support.
• The Web OS makes it easy to develop apps. Many users are creating “Home Brew” apps that can be downloaded at Pre Central.
• Turn by turn navigation is included with an everything data plan. Other carriers charge extra for this service.
• Text messages are treated as coversations, each person you are texting is a separate session and you can see your entire conversation. You can use the touch screen to switch between different contacts. The Pre’s slide out QWERTY keyboard makes typing easy and convenient.
• Ergonomically the phone is well designed. It sits very comfortably in your hand. The touchscreen and gestures are intuitive. The screen is bright, sharp, and clear.
• The only negative is that the phone is fragile. Get a nice case and screen protector. I like the Phantom Skinz screen protector.

By M.Cordoba “mxc” – Palm Pre review

Palm Pre Pros:

• Awesome Operating System (WebOS) and most positives come from it.
• Multi-tasking is simply perfect, switching between apps, opening new ones, closing them, everything works great. Want to listen to Pandora online radio while surfing the web? No problem. The iPhone 3GS does not have that functionality.
• Instant Messaging and text messaging is awesome. Hard to explain but a text from a friend, as well as an instant message later from that same friend all go to the same messaging interface and are linked as part of the same conversation – it’s simply brilliant and seamless.
• Phone is comfortable to hold and has a nice curve to it.
• Contacts from Facebook and other email accounts are seamlessly added to the phone automatically.
• Push (instant) email from other accounts.
• Awesome touch screen, really vibrant, gestures work well, surfing the web is a breeze.
• Finally, a little known gem, that I don’t understand why more people haven’t lauded it: Navigating applications is simply brilliant. No other device does it this well. Need to “up” one level (say from the compose an email screen to your inbox, just swipe your finger on the bottom of the screen (“back” gesture) and it takes you there. Every application, even 3rd party ones, work this way. Listening to a particular song in an album and want to go back to the listing of all songs in that album? Yes, the back swipe does it again. Again, it is hard to describe in words, but it is simply intuitive an really easy. In the iPhone for example, every application has its own way of doing this. Some have a back button, some have a menu that gives other options, some have links in other areas. Basically, navigating an iPhone app is an adventure, and not intuitive. Moving around a WebOS (pre) app, is incredibly easy.
• Sprint plans are cheaper than AT&T period. (69.99 gets you 450 minutes, unlimited data, unlimited text messaging in Sprint, and turn by turn navigation with traffic reports, re-routing the full service. This plan is 99.99 in AT&T (for 99.99 in sprint you get unlimited MINUTES, data and text). If you don’t care for navigation, the cost in AT&T is $89.99, still a full $20 more ($500 more throughout the life of the contract.
• You can replace the battery (albeit it’s a bit hard, but you can do it)

Palm Pre Cons:

• The device is fragile. It’s all plastic, including the screen. iPhone screen is glass and the new 3GS is much better with finger print smudges. If it falls, it’s probably going to be toast. The iPhone (1st generation through 3GS has MUCH better hardware – not talking about processor and memory, those are virtually the same between 3GS and Pre, but the casing,
• Finger print ultra magnet. I still do not get this. Why not normal plastic? This is just baffling. You will see every finger print, everywhere on the device, back, front, sides, every inch of it is a finger print magnet. It’s annoying. Instead of shiny coat of black finger print magnet plastic, use the regular one? Like every keyboard in the world?
• Very few applications on the store. More will come, but right now (August 3, 2009) there are only about 40.
• Battery life is very poor. You will have to charge every day, even with light use. Reports vary widely, some people say they can go 2 days, but the overwhelming majority of users report less than a day worth of battery. Just google “palm pre battery issues” for details. Mine lasts around 20 – 30 hours. That’s about 20 texts (combined sent and received), about 5
• 10 minutes of phone calls. Email checking, with some responses, light web surfing, on both evdo and wifi (total time about an hour). And listen to mp3s for about an hour or two. Most of the time I am not doing heavy multitasking, just music and web, or music and email. I have the GPS off, location services off, email syncing is every 24 hours (instead of instant/push), and the screen brightness is at the lowest level. Despite all this, I have to charge it every day. If you use the navigation application to get somewhere that is over 3 or 4 hours away, your phone will be dead by the time you get there, so a car charger is a must for those times.

Thanks Daniel S Rimar and M.Cordoba “mxc”

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