Palm Pre sucks (continued)

Hardware issues

How many palm pres have you exchanged?

Horrible build quality

Fastest Dying Cities meet

Deathfest? Dayton's mayor makes me sick.

Palm Pre SUCKS!

After my 4th palm pre, I got fed up and returned it. I ran into the following.

• Two phones had ear pieces that didn't work
• One phone had way too much slop between the back and the keyboard. The thing would creak and shift while typing.
  
• One phone's front would shift back and forth.

Total garbage. Seems like the only thing you can get that's worth your money is a gun. I shoulda shot the damn thing at the skeet range.

Palm Pre update

Welp..it's been a week and I'm on my 4th palm pre! Two of the phones I received had problem with their ear speakers. I couldn't hear or talk to anyone without using the speaker phone. These were brand new out of the box phones too. The other phone I returned had a flimsy back, which didn't appear to be connected correctly.

Apparently this problem with the ear piece is common (according to the net). Though sprint never tried to troubleshoot it. They just swapped me another phone. Hopefully this is my last pre!

Palm Pre

I just got the Palm Pre through Sprint. I put together a list of likes and dislikes. I'll post a final list after a month or so of using it.

Likes

• With Sprint you get more capability for the money compared to AT&T and Verizon. The simply everything is about $60 (if you have the employee referral discount - $70 normally) and the equivalent plan at AT&T is $100.
  
• Pre's "card" system is great for multitasking. You can have many apps opened at once. It'll also handle incoming events nicely.
• Google support. The pre integrates nicely with Google's mail, calendar, maps, contacts. This was a big plus for me as I already had all that set up with Google and it's free.
• The screen is HVGA and large.
• Cool accessories like the radiant recharging system that requires no cables.
• Gesture system is nice for navigation. To go "back", simply swipe the gesture area right to left.
• Web browser is fast and intuitive. It supports the pinch zoom in and out.
• Pandora application is sweet.
  
• When you plug it into a PC via usb, it's seen as a USB drive.
• Sprint navigation is unlimited and operates just like a GPS.
• The plan I have gives me unlimited everything except for minutes (which are 500) for $60 a month. So that's navigation, streaming tv, data, texting, etc..
• Keyboard though visually appears very small is actually quite usable.
  

Dislikes

• I used it a lot yesterday for pictures, GPS, google maps, and web surfing during the day and the battery almost ran out by the time I went to bed. It's a pretty good trade off for all the functionality though.