Palm Pre pulled a rabbit out of its hat when it announced the WebOS powered Palm Pre. Ever since then we have seen dedicated Palm Pre fan sites, rumors, speculations, expectations and what not. Personally Palm Pre is the best iPhone competitor we have seen so far, the only one we can call a true iPhone killer.
Pre certainly manages to beat the iPhone 3G for me. With 8GB internal memory, multitouch / touch gestures, multitasking, full touch + physical QWERTY (hybrid), powerful webOS and a good camera with Video. But its no secret that the real competition would be with iPhone 3.0!
The iPhone OS 3.0 was seen as a response to the increasing competition from Android, Nokia, Palm … and Apple might just raise the bar a little for all of them. The recently leaked iPhone Pro / 3.0 specs looks quite convincing. From Ram to CPU horsepower, memory to camera everything gets enough boost to leave the competition behind. So would Palm Pre beat the iPhone?
iPhone 3G – YES (with OS 3.0 even iPhone 3G would compete much better)
3rd Gen iPhone Pro / 3.0? NO!
Some factors to consider:
- Apple is certainly moving to 32GB iPhone. Pre is still at 8GB
- SMS forwarding, MMS, Video editing, Bluetooth P2p these are coming in iPhone 3
- PRE doesn’t come with a killer pricing, its the same as iPhone: $199. In fact the plans are expensive compared to what AT&T offers for iPhone.
- App store !
The biggest advantage for the Pre would be multitasking and QWERTY. Hope thats enough to keep the Palm fans happy for now 
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You also forgot the great ipod music..
Actually the sprint plan is cheaper, at least if you text a bunch. The sprint 900 minute plan is $90 with unlimited text, the AT&T is $105 with 1500 text messages. And if you never text the price is the same. AT&T has rollover and sprint has nights starting 2 hours earlier. Don’t see how you can call Sprint expensive. AT&T is subsidizing the cost of the iphone with their higher priced plans. Which makes sense because the iphone cost more to make than the pre.