Comments on: AT&T Memo Leaks: Apple iPhone 3G vs Palm Pre Showdown is On!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:45:01 +0000

@Robert:

Who assumed that authors write on virtual keyboards? Not me. Read again... I said typewriters (vs. computer keyboards).

Finger size has nothing to do with anything. You don't press the keys on the iPhone, you only need to touch them. And regardless of a finger's size, the touch screen only requires a tiny little area of the finger to touch the keys (assuming your fingers are curved on bottom like most people's).

By: Pre

Pre — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:27:34 +0000

Man you people talk about iphone sales like the money is going in ur pocket. Your just raving about making someone else richer. The Pre is a very good phone and will give iphone competition. but shouldn’t u like that iphone lovers. If not you probably won’t be getting cut and paste this year, so competitions should be good for you. Multitasking on a phone made so easy is beautiful.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:06:27 +0000

You must have small fingers. Every time when I use my iPhone to reply to emails, I can't help but hitting the wrong keys and needing to go back again. Not to count the need to switch between the alphabet and the punctuation screens.

Even my friend who works at Apple agree that the virtual keyboard is not easy to type.

I don't mean to say iPhone is bad. All I am saying is Palm is smart to observe a big weak point of iPhone and come up with an alternative for a class of users who just wish a real keyboard for iPhone. Those friends of mine who get Blackberries from their companies envy my iPhone but when it comes to typing, they still think their Blackberries are better.

Imagine this. A virtual keyboard is so easy for Palm to duplicate and cost nothing to implement. Why wouldn't Palm want to do away with the physical keyboard and make Pre slimmer also?

By: Jeffdc5

Jeffdc5 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:28:29 +0000

@ed by the time the pre is released it will have those features you mentioned.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:17:34 +0000

This only makes me want the Pre more. Because if this is the best the folks at AT&T can come up with, the Pre must be pretty spectacular. Oh, and they don't mention the Pre will have MMS and A2DP which are both missing on the iPhone.

By the way, I don't need or want GPS and Palm has always been a better "business" phone. Even the bulky Treo P series had better business capability than the iPhone.

By: Chobbs

Chobbs — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:00:17 +0000

I hope I never have to type on a physical keyboard ever again. They’re dirty and hard to clean. They’re bulky and prone to breaks. How many virtual keyboards have a missing letter or number?

By: Chobbs

Chobbs — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:55:02 +0000

as many times as you would on a physical keyboard. Actually I would say less because of the intuitive software that is very good at predicting what word you meant to type if you make a mistake.

I used backspace once in this reply

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:34:19 +0000

It is even more amusing to assume that authors type on the virtual keyboards. How many times will they have to hit the backspace key?

By: Big Willie

Big Willie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:14:53 +0000

Pre? C’mon! Seriously? Another iPhone wanna be that will get knocked the f%&k out! iPhone owns marketshare-wise not to mention the 1 billion downloads on the App Store in less than a year! There is no competition, fellas! Trust me. Mark my words, NO PHONE WILL BE ABLE TO COMPETE WITH THE IPHONE SALESWISE FOR ANOTHER 2 YEARS!

By: Jason D

Jason D — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:18:32 +0000

Why are we comparing the 3G to the Pre? Shouldn’t we run vaporware against vaporware? By that I mean the 4G to the Pre?