If at first the user experience of the iPhone was the most attractive thing about it, today, the strength of iPhone is the huge range of amazing applications that were developed for it.
Now, when more phones that give a slightly better user experience than iPhone are in the market, iPhone is not competing in the same field anymore. Today, iPhone brings a great added value (the applications) that can't be easily competed by none of the others.
BUT - the Palm Pre does give a nice fight on the user experience side and has a comfortable OS for app. developers (see a review below). So, I spent 5 minutes to learn more about it.
Enjoy the Palm Pre review -
(* BTW, personally, I am waiting for the next phone revolution to buy my next phone. So - 99.9% that my next phones will be - 1.modu and 2.one of the coming Android phones. modu for its hardware platform that will create an amazing eco-system and an Android phone for its software platform that will let application creativity extend into new levels).
What is webOS?
webOS is an embedded operating system developed by Palm for the Pre smartphone. It’s based on the Linux 2.6 kernel and features a tight integration into social networks and Web 2.0 APIs. As an example the Universal Search feature accesses your contacts, and then crawls content provided by Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia and even Twitter.
The operating systems has a touchscreen-based graphical user interface and ships with a set of typical smartphone applications, like an address book, calendar and task manager.
Read more here -
Get up to speed with our Palm Pre extended executive summary
Written on June 6, 2009 – 9:09 pm
Ralf Rottmann, Serial Mobile Entrepreneur, Apple Addict
http://thenextweb.com/2009/06/06/speed-palm-pre-executive-summary/
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