The two phones are mine for testing for the next two weeks. It’s going to take me a lot of playing and reading to figure out the web OS, but I’ll do it. Hopefully I’ll get some great videos and helpful reviews.
First impressions:
Palm Pixi Plus
The phone is tiny and responsive. The keyboard keys are well spaced and raised enough that even though their size is small, they don’t feel that way. The screen is gorgeous and the speakers are very nice. The multi touch is also nice to have.
Palm Pre Plus
I don’t like the keyboard at all. The keys are too inset and the t/y g/h and v/b buttons are spaced closer together than the other keys. Also the slider is awkward and since there isn’t a soft keyboard to use when the slider is closed it makes it necessary to deal with it.
Side by Side
The browsers on both are decently quick. The weird part was that twitter.com loaded faster on the Pre, but when it came to crunching the javascript and css of Twitter’s logged in homepage, the Pixi was exceptionally faster with the pre getting stuck on something (repeatedly) and taking 10+ seconds to finish crunching the exras.
WebOS
I’m sure this has been covered before, but I want a settings area. This is a strange exclusion of something that is default in both the iPhone OS, Android OS, and any non-smart phone. Like I said, I’m still going to play with it and see if I can used to it (I’m used to iPhone OS and Android).
Should be an interesting few weeks. Of course I’ll connect one of them at a time to my Google Voice account so I can use it as my primary phone.
*Disclaimer* I do not get to keep these phones, they are purely for testing purposes as allowed to me by Verizon Wireless. I do not receive any monetary gain by testing these for them. Both phones have active voice and data plans that I do not pay for (but I also have unlimited minutes/data on my own phone line so there’s no real gain from where I talk from).
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