Judging by the faces of the phone people I just demonstrated the G2 to here in Canada where all they know is blackberry, iPhone and G1; I'd say it has some pretty good wow-factor! Even die-hard iPhone fans admit it is interesting whether Google can do the same for the phone marked as they have for the internet. But competition is good for all of us. :)
/Casper On Jun 12, 4:27 pm, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > The Palm PRE is a far more inspired (better phone) effort than the G1 > running Android was. > > Android, on paper sounds rather good, but in practice, it didn't have > that much wow factor. > > This Palm PRE definitely has some wow factor right out of the launch > chute. One can tell is has very much the kind of craftsmanship that > Apple put into the iPhone. > > The iPhone traveled a similar path. The first release only permitted > web apps that ran on Safari. Then about a year later Apple came out > with an SDK to permit developers to write to OS X via Objective C. > > Here at launch the Palm PRE is permitting web apps. Perhaps in time > they'll open it up to other means of development. > > At least with web apps the programming model will be single-threaded > with async AJAX interactions. Given that the Palm PRE WebOS permits > actual multi-tasking, this may help to forestall buggy multi-threaded > apps appearing. > > On Jun 11, 11:56 pm, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm loving the unit, the design and hardware, but in my mind it was a rather > > bad decision _not_ to use Android. > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:11 AM, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > One of my developers already has the Palm PRE. I like it. Well, for > > > one, I do a lot of email so a physical keyboard would be a premium > > > item for me. I tried out the PRE slide out keyboard and was able to do > > > well with it. > > > > Otherwise, very iPhone-ish experience. The browser has pinch gestures > > > for zoom much like iPhone Safari. > > > > I like the size better than iPhone too. A wee bit more compact but > > > perhaps with a bit more thickness than iPhone. > > > > This individual already had the PRE's imap email client hooked up to > > > suck email off our corporate Exchange server. Our Exchange server has > > > HTTPS Internet web access, but just by entering that URL, he was able > > > to configure the client to do imap with Exchange. > > > > This individual also says it can connect to iTunes and that he can > > > download content - I was not aware that Apple permitted non-Apple > > > clients to connect to the iTunes service. Hmm. That's a biggie. Of > > > course there's some sort of Palm store too. Perhaps Amazon can be > > > hooked up as well. Not sure on that... > > > > And there's an app on there called SprintTV. Not sure if this comes > > > bundled with Sprint service plan or if is an extra cost option. Didn't > > > get into any of the particulars about service plans. > > > > I rather liked this phone. Hope it does well. Am tempted to dump my > > > Blackberry Perl, is just that the company pays for the blackberry and > > > its service plan. If I got a PRE, I'd be on my own. Same with iPhone, > > > though. So I stay in my Blackberry rut. Course can't knock the berry > > > when it comes to corporate email, which is my life. > > > -- > > Viktor Klang > > Scala Loudmouth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
