Palm Pre playing catch-up in apps race
Palm’s Pre smartphone has been compared favorably to Apple’s iPhone since its launch June 6, but there’s one measure in which Palm’s offering falls woefully short: apps. The 30 mobile applications available in Palm’s App Catalog would barely fill one shelf inside Apple’s 50,000-item App Store.
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Legacy apps
Palm also has tens of thousands of applications running on its old OS. And there's a Pre app -- the Classic -- that lets many of these legacy apps run on the Pre.www.makapalm.com
Multitasking
I can't stand how everyone keeps saying that multitasking is a huge advantage. Windows Mobile has been doing it seamlessly for years. I know, it's got tons of other limitions and they're slow to update it, but you can customize it to your heart's content, download thousands of 3rd party software titles, and, I hope you're listening Apple and Palm, you can add microSD memory cards for future expansion.Both the iPhone and Pre are great looking phones with great features but I'm afraid of growing out of them with the fixed memory. I have a 16GB card in my 2 year old Samsung i760 and still love it. Apple's new 32GB iPhone will be nice but 8GB on the Pre??? Ouch...