After Palm announced the Pre last month, I gathered reactions from prominent tech blogs and Pinoy techies, particularly Apple fans. I never got to complete it.
Still, here are some comments that I managed to dump on a WordPress draft, as well as those I recently saved while browsing old blog entries:
“I like the hardware, the new OS looks pretty solid and the demo of the integrated contacts/phonebook thing that looks like they actually got syncing right! It looks really sweet. The only gripe I have is I dont like the way they designed the icons. Hahaha.”
-Jeff of Teknostik.com
“Nope! Not an iPhone killer! Hahaha.”
- Angel, Steve Job’s no. 1 fan in Manila 
“Think iPhone, but flashier.”
“As a proud card carrying member of the iPhone club, I pride myself on being ahead of the curve in mobile device land. Well, this little gleaming slickster, might give me a bit of competition with the Palm users.”
“There are no downsides to this phone!”
– Cris, an Engadget reader
Is this already available in the country? How much?
I still think the icons are too cutesy, and there’s too much of that glossy/shiny factor from Apple’s early 2000 versions of the Mac OS. But that unified address book thing they got going looks sweet. It’s begging one of those “why didn’t they think of this sooner?” questions, and I really hope this premise of unifying your contacts across all your online presences also trickle down to other phone manufacturers’ handsets. It’s a brilliant idea.
PS chief you need a new header. A GSM Palm Pre would be appropro :p
Jeffs last blog post..Only people who know what they’re getting into should be allowed to buy computers
@Prudence, Not yet po. It will be available in the US before the first half of 2009 ends. Price estimates range from $199 to $499. Excited na nga ako. I hope it comes to Pinas soon after the US release.
@Jeff, I was recently invited to try Xobni, an Outlook plugin which has a similar contacts integration method. It automatically gets a contact’s public details from Facebook and LinkedIn. You should try it if you haven’t yet. As for the header, I’ll probably use a Centro image first, since it’s what I’m using now.