I have been a Palm PDA user for many years now, and I have been wanting to upgrade to a smart phone.  The Palm offerings like the Centro and Treo’s just didnt have the flash and moderness of the competition like the iPhone and Google phones.  So I waited.  And I carefully considered switching services.  Rumors of a new PalmOS floated around.  And then nothing.  And still nothing.  And PalmOS grew old.  And yet my PDA’s still worked fine.

Then, the Palm Pre arrived.  I was skeptical.  Its linux based.  Its more or less an open system I could develop for easily.  Its all web based (I am a web developer).Awesome: just what I am looking for in a phone!

I couldnt be separated from my Pre.  It syncs my Google Mail with my work’s exchange server into one seamless mail experience.  It syncs my calendars too.  Fantastic!  It multitasks.  I can listen to my music with Pandora.  It does everything I wanted a phone/PDA to do.

Of course, nothing is perfect.  It currently does lack Adobe Flash support although that is supposed to be coming (they have Flash on linux in general so I dont see it being much harder to get it to work on the Pre), and it doesn’t have a generic Jabber client (google talk is based on Jabber so I am not sure why they don’t have this yet).  The App Store is a little sparse so far, but there is a homebrew apps site with unofficial apps you can install.  And the biggest little complaint I have is the battery life, which for me averages about 12 hours.  But thats usually enough, and you can get an extended battery.

It also uses any wi-fi connection you might have, seamlessly using it for faster internet access, which also saves on battery time.

Overall, I couldnt be separated from my Pre.The Palm Pre is easy to develop for, its cool, and its on a fast 3G network.

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