I have had FIVE Pre's , three of them died because the headphone jack failed and locked it into speakerphone mode. One of them just up and died. Seriously poor quality for these days. I do like the Pre's form factor, but the battery life is horrid.

I also find the gestures absolutely awesome. Multitasking is great, but the Pre has lag issues that are well documented. If they would just use the damn hardware thats inside the phone (GPU), it would help offload tasks and free up the CPU to do other things.

Honestly, while the iPhone doesn't multitask like the Pre, about the only way the Pre uses multitasking well is when you use Pandora and Nav at the same time. Even then, the Pre lags beyond acceptable levels when this is done.

The browser does allow you to have multiple cards up at the same time, but Safari has multiple pages as well. Cards are nice, but you still have to switch between them. And don't get me started on the Calendar.. absolutely unacceptable lag.

Palms App store will remain a joke until they refine the SDK. Hopefully, with the recent acquisition of a former AMD graphics engineer, the SDK will be enhanced in about 6-12 months.

I wanted to believe in Palm, but it seems they are settling in the mass market arena, extremely disappointing those of us thinking they would push the envelope.

IDK, iPhone is a great device because of its simplistic design. However Apple is too controlling with the device and the OS is showing its age.

The Pre has/had serious potential, (Form Factor, Cards). Palm, with its lack of attention to WebOS, is doing everything to kill interest in the platform. Sure this is not intentional, but its giving the other guys time to 1up them before they get it right.

Nokia is new to me. I have never owned one of their phones, but I seriously look forward to my N900.

Please don't take this as an attack, but after almost five months with the Pre, I know the good, bad and ugly.