Tour of Palm Pre Plus
Posted on February 22, 2010 by Max Under Phones · Leave a Comment
The Palm Pre Plus earns its place as the top WebOS device, improving on the Pre with a better design and performance, and upgraded features. Verizon customers looking for a versatile smartphone to balance their personal and work lives will be well-served by the Pre Plus.
The Pre Plus looks like the older Pre, with everything the same, save for a few minor differences. The Pre Plus loses the button below the screen that looks like a trackball but isn’t, and the “Orange” key on the keyboard is now a stately white. Oh, one other minor change — the Pre Plus now ships with the back that is compatible with the Touchstone charger (the Pixi Plus does not). The Pre Plus also sports twice the memory — 16 GB — as the original.
So far, the Pre Plus feels faster than my original Pre, but that’s pretty much expected. The Pre Plus is fresh out of the box and has almost no third party software installed yet. I did go to install the Twitter app I use on my Pre, Tweed, but there is no longer a free version. I’ll have to try a few out to see which free app I like best.
The inclusion of Wi-Fi and the convenience of having the QWERTY keyboard always at hand makes the cheaper Pixi Plus a very compelling phone. I will have to see if the smaller screen and lower resolution is a sacrifice over the next few days, but if not, the Pixi Plus might be the one I’d choose over the more expensive Pre Plus. The Pixi Plus is just so darn light in the hand and it feels good to use. It’s nice avoiding that awkward (at least for me) sliding motion to expose the Pre Plus’s keyboard. To this day that is still not comfortable for me to do on my Pre.
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/product-reviews/palm-pre-plus-review/
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