ShermCraig

It is difficult to compare to the iPhone because of the fact that they are on their 3rd iteration of their device. By the same token, comparing the Pre to the first generation iPhone is equally unfair because Apple kind of paved the way. Granted, Palm has a completely new OS, but then again, so did Apple when it introduced the iPhone.

As much as the Blackberry has made huge inroads to the Smartphone market, my personal opinion is that it is and will remain a corporate device. They made a big splash with the Curve non-corporate use, etc., but my feeling is that the Pre, the several Android devices coming out and other competing smartphones coming, Blackberry just won't be able to continue to attract the younger, hipper audience outside of the corporate world.

So, as Palm releases updates, and the apps start to trickle in, I predict that the Pre will become the number 2 device by mid 2010 - second to the iPhone.

shokrum

I agree with your assessment i chose the pre as my phone fro the next 2 years
i upgraded from the blackberry pearl.

the reson i chose it over the iphone and the tour was its multi tasking capabilitys and its stylish gui.

The pre could have been the iphone slayer but its fallen short but i have to say so far its the first imo to be true competition

if they made the pre iphone sized put in a 32 gig drive gave it a flash enabled browser visual voice mail , voice dial, video camera . with a built in phone emulator or a decent apps set . that phone would have done the trick