The gloves are on. The bell has rung for round two in this fight over the smartphone market. Admittedly, it is a HUGE George Foreman vs. a tiny, skinny, anemic nerd. That's pretty much describes the fight between Apple's iPhone and the Palm Pre. Round one began with the Palm Pre releasing claiming to be an "iPhone Killer", which of course, is impossible. Round two may be a little different though. So far in Round two, Apple has denied customers one of the coolest apps out there, Google Voice. This has upset quite a few people on the ole' Internets, and AT&T and Apple are still squabbling over it. Then, guess what? Google released Voice on the Palm Pre. Take that, Apple!
AT&T is probably the iPhones biggest problem. So far, they haven't allowed MMS messaging, what is know as "Tethering" and a few other things. This has obviously upset some who own iPhones. The Palm Pre is available on Sprint, and will be coming to Verizon soon, both of which offer these services.
The amount of Apps available for the iPhone is massive, somewhere near 50,000. This is one obvious advantage to the iPhone, but recently the Palm Pre has released a SDK for there Apps, so they are going to start to develop more and more. Another good punch to the iPhone's head.
There was also the fight between iTunes syncing on the Pre, which Apple released a patch to fix this. Then, the Pre relesed a workaround so you can sync with iTunes. The Pre one this round.
Eventually, this is going to end somewhere, but this humble author thinks the Palm Pre is a good contender, but it will still be beaten by the monster that is the iPhone.
Of course, If Palm doesn't stop airing those really creepy comercials, then I won't be able to sleep at night. Thanks alot, Palm...
Chris out.
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