Pre wont do : voice recording, camra settings, video taking, adobe flash player, wmv-3g2 watchin and other video formats, power point reader, tex forwarding, voice dialing, can’t change sounds for texes,emails.ect. , can’t save email attachments mp3 . No zoom on camra, can’t add individual songs to the now playing.

Multitasking isn’t having something run in the background….. dig this.

On my HTC Touch Pro at a conference last week (Sustainable Brands 2009), for about an hour and a half:

1 ) I had a facebook ap open (searching the speakers, etc)
2 ) a GPS enabled google maps app w/latitude looking at others in attendance
3 ) a “Word” doc for writing full sentences that aren’t 140 characters
4 ) a twitter app for twittering the conference (hashtag #sb09)
5 ) my opera browser with two tabs open (twitter search, random searching)
6 ) my text messages chatting with others
7 ) my Picture Mail
8 ) I had stereo bluetooth music playing (in one ear… I know I know – But I *was* at a conference taking notes. I didn’t want to be rude)
9 ) while taking pictures of the event
10) while checking my email
11) *AND* using a calculator to do math on the concept of “slow money” and “nurture (vs venture) capitalism”..

That is 11 applications – all at once, with a full sized qwerty keyboard. Switching back and forth, while cutting and pasting.

The battery barely drained in an hour and a half, but I do have a spare to swap out just in case…..
That’s just insane. I am interested in what the Pre does, but for now I think I am fine with the Pro.

As for the iphone… it isn’t even part of the conversation anymore for real business people.

A friend has a problem with their iPhone, it swaps in and out of silent constantly, so it buzzes sometimes every minute!

I like your comment, because its true. The iPhone is a computer, so it’s going to be tedious sometimes. Sometimes more than you’d like.

What I do like is the service. For a $35AU fee they will send out a replacement iPhone then you can send back your trashed one. I’ve been pretty lucky with mine, but the ring switcher broke off, so I’m getting a replacement.

I had a read around and haven’t found an exact answer. But…

1) Android store opened with 62 apps
2) Steve Jobs was quoted as saying there would be over 100 apps at launch
3) By November (4 months) Apple had over 10,000 apps available.

Mind you, do we need 50 flashlights

I agree, I reckon it would be sluggish too, like the Pre reviews suggest it is when multitasking.

I want to know something. Cause a lot of people mention the sealed battery as a fail.

Do you really carry around multiple batteries for your phone? How many, 2, 3, 4? Does your phone come with an external multiple battery charger or do you set your alarm in the night to swap them over? What do you do with your phone that you drain the batteries so fast? And where are you that there is no power source (including the car) available to charge your phone? Oh, and where do you stash the extra batteries, in your bag, pocket, where?

No one bothers to explain why they need these alleged multiple batteries or how they manage the multiple batteries. They could short out against each other or other metal objects.

A still or video camera, that makes sense. You can go through those batteries in an hour if you are constantly shooting.

A phone though….

No multitasking, I’m sure your sobbing into your little baby fists.

The iPhone does multitask, almost all the time. iPod runs in the background. Calls run in the background. Plenty multitasking.

So one suspects you are talking about 3rd party apps. Outside a couple of exceptions such as an internet radio app what is the point of running more than one app at a time (which in this example would be very useful, agreed).

Can you type in two windows at once? Most iPhone apps have current state saving so you can return to the exact point where you were. Even the Palm Pre which does have multitasking for 3rd party apps (all 12 of them LOL) shows you apps using a card system, with only one card to the front. So you can’t really read or scroll more than one card at a time, since only one is active.

Its a tick box feature. Yes, I agree there is examples where it is useful. Radio or GPS Path makers are two examples. But we’re not talking web, social, banking, news, games, im, productivity or anything else really are we.

From the positive reviews I have read on the Pre the multitasking just slows the phone down anyway.

I might buy this phone once it’s been fixed up and ready for the big leagues.

Negative help us with decissions.

For instance, this is a great car, FAST, Sleek, can to 0-60 in 3sec! The inside is just pristine! It has noise reduction so that you will have a great experience when you listen to music! The engine runs soooo smooth you might think the car is not even on. Gas milage is the better than anything you have use before, you can get 50-60 maybe even 70-80 miles to the gallon!

(Here is the negative, that some dont want posted…”I has NO BRAKES, cant even put brakes in, there is nothing that will slow down the car when you need to, but we are not going to post the negatives because no one wants to see them.)

Anything else that people have been critical of are minor and/or unnoticable. If anyone is complaining about sharp edges, they’re just hunting for things to bash. Besides that, and the lack of apps (for now), I think the Pre is the only phone out there worthy of being called an “iphone killer.” This thing is friggin’ connected! Now it’s just up to Palm and Sprint (and maybe Verizon, AT&T, etc) to get it together and get it in the hands of millions of people.

“Pre”tty good, huh?

the lack of apps does suck, but what do you expect for a brand new phone? i have encountered some sluggish controls. i.e. tap on something and theres some lag. nothing to major like what was mentioned in the post, just little things im sure the first update will fix.

there are definitely way more Pros then Cons with this phone.

story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

People are complaining about the app store not having much? It just launched today!

Give them a shot side-by-side.

Pre is better in very way
How many apps can you run at a time on your Iphone? 1?