Palm Pre with its cutting edge tech is leading the way for the best smart phone available and could be a viable alternative to the iPhone. Palm pre is based on Web OS which supports multitasking , thereby making it pioneers in multitasking utilities which is about to change with the Palm Pre 3G.
Palm Pre handsets with the new web OS browsers is a very attractive phone with a good OS and the phone works smoothly with this new software. A detailed comparison of both the Palm Pre and iPhone features should hepl you to decide which is the best smartphone.
- Screen: Both phones have capacitive and multi-touch Screens with the Palm Pre’s glowy little “gesture area” dropping real estate all the way down to the bottom of the phone.
- Multitasking: In Multitasking apps the Palm Pre is the clear winner and the iPhone is far behind.
- Developers : Here, again Palm Pre is leading with webOS because it supports JavaScript, HTML and CSS where as Apple has provided OS X-based SDK.
- Web Integration: Palm Pre with webOS interface integrates your contacts of Facebook, Gmail, IM and and scans for the duplicates also.
- Software Applications : Apple gains the advantage of Third party appllications via App store or Cydia where there are tons of free and paid applications that available for iPhone. It may take some time for Palm Pre to have this type of support.
- 3 MP Camera: The Palm Pre gains another advantage over the iPhone with an LED Flash for its 3MP camera, something which the iPhone lacks. Several users have found the pics good enough despite the fact that pics taken with flash have their shortcomings.
- Keyboard : iPhone gains an advantage with virtual Touch keyboard. Palm Pre has a physical QWERTY Keyboard which complicates a new user’s performance.
- Battery: An Apple iPhone comes with a fixed battery while Palm Pre comes with a spare replacement too.
- Copy and Paste: Palm Pre does both and the iPhone still does not and nothing is expected in the near future.
- Browser: Both iPhone & Palm Pre use the standard mobile web browser based on WebKit.
Conclusion: Apple needs to work on the third generation version of the iPhone to compete with Palm Pre which has a likely potential to grab a good amount of Smart Phone market share.
