i’m having a bit of a problem with my ham-sized fingers, and I end up hanging up on incoming calls, more often than answering them.

give me a couple of weeks.

I’ve never been for any of the exclusive nature of phones. I think it’s a bad move on the manufacturer’s part. Imagine the market share Apple could have built if it wasn’t just AT&T when they first came out. I think just based on buzz they could have put themselves in a position that would be hard to beat. I knew plenty of people who wanted one, but couldn’t get one because they were still locked into a contract with someone else.

Speaking of which, do you ever think we’ll see the day when phone companies will pay you to dump your carrier much like we did in the long distance wars in the past? I think the first company to really bring this to the mass market and advertise it can crush the competition. I know some people have received special deals from some companies, but someone needs to just come right and say “we’ll buy you out of your old contract.” I think it would be a cell phone game changer.

A couple of the show stoppers for me on the Pre were: I hated the rubberized keys (which bummed me out since I was really hoping to like the keyboard), I opened and closed the thing more than a dozen times and I felt like this was just asking for trouble, NO VIDEO, smaller screen, HAVING to type in portrait mode only since that is the only way the keyboard orients.

The deal makers for me as an agent on the iPhone 3GS were: 3MB photos (these things really rock!), VIDEO that equals my FlipUltra that can be instantly uploaded to YouTube, apps that will allow me to build on the fly virtual tours of homes I’m showing, homes I’m previewing for a listing, apps, more apps… ;?)

I’ve been with Verizon for longer than I can remember. I’ve held out switching up until now. This new 3GS pushed me over the edge and so far I’m quite happy. (Interesting note: My new AT&T plan is $50 per month cheaper than my old Verizon plan & I added two new lines to this one)

And I’ll always have a place in my heart for the 755p but when that anniversary day comes around your whole world is gonna change my friend!

I’m a 755p guy right now, waiting on my anniversary date to upgrade to the Pre (yes, I’m with Sprint). This awesome post – and the intuitive comments – have sealed the deal for me.

Navy Chief, Navy Pride

Does it make sense to give up many tools for one function when you could separate the two and be free?

Again, I do totally agree with you that the apps will come. The linux developers should be able to run absolutely wild on this thing and though I haven’t tried it yet, I believe there is already support for Flash apps in the OS which is something some of my iPhone friends have complained about for awhile.

Though I will always be a Palm loyalist, all in all this definitely begins a battle of two very good devices and two hungry companies and that means nothing but more good stuff to come for people like us!

Here’s the scoop on the storage, we’re been coveted by the whole “buy the space for this price” model apple designed. Stemming from ipod initially, it was smart, because early adopters like you and I will end up buying the next model with more storage at a greater price, but damn 8gigs is a lot to me for a pda when you tke into account cloud computing.

Apps will come, anti-apple dev folks have been waiting for this moment, and I pretty much think the race is on.

The only problem I see is Palm is really counting on Pre to plug the leak to iphone, if Palm can realize some sturdy growth, I firmly believe it can win in the longrun.

I’m a little bummed that Palm eliminated the ability to add additional memory cards but I’m sure the next gen will be out before I get close to filling this baby up. I also wish they had released the developer toolkit prior to the phone release. I’m definitely missing some of the apps I had running on the Centro and you certainly can’t compete with the app situation on the iPhone right now. But all in all, you would have to kill me before you could pry this thing out of my hands!

I think the important thing to remember about both tools is that one is a PDA by palm, iphone isn’t, it was built as a phone w/web which it does really really well, and then adapted as a PDA by applications hence the missing cut/paste initially etc…

The problem for Apple now is that Pre essentially added web side in a pretty equal way to iphone and is by default a PDA, the balls is in Apples court now.

Pre will only get better from a pretty high position, but will never have the wow factor of iphone because iphone beat them to mobile web.

Thus far, it’s just okay… a little more complex than my 700, and a little smaller (good and bad)… the keys are smaller, the type on my calendar is smaller…

but the phone is very lightweight and fits easily into a pocket (not something the 700 did well).

If the i-phone became available for Sprint tomorrow…I’d change in a flash… but for now… this is as close as I can get.