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CES 2009 brought us a new player in the smartphone upper-echelon. Let's drill down and see how the Palm Pre compares with the iPhone and Android's G1.
1. Multitouch touchscreen/gesture control: Allthree are capacitive, only the Pre and iPhone have multitouch. ThePre's glowy little "gesture area" has dropped the touchable real estateall the way down tto the bottom of the phone, which is great for beingable to navigate with one hand and not interfere with the screen atall. The wavey dock you bring up from the bottom looks awesome, but canyou use it out of the box without a second thought or page through themanual? That's my question. Advantage: iPhone/Pre tossup.
2. Multitasking: One of the beefiest of our beefs withthe iPhone SDK is its insistence on Apps running one at a time. TheG1's notifications drawer was definitely a step in the right direction,but the Pre's interface is the first smartphone OS that was built with multitasking as a core design element.Resembling the Xbox's old Blades, or a less-jarring OS X Expose even,the Pre's "Cards" interface always places you in the context of everyapp running for fast switching, and notifications from other apps don'tpull you away completely from the task at hand. Multitasking is hugelyimportant on a phone, and it's a good sign that Palm recognizes. Advantage: Pre
3. Hardware: Adrian says:
While the hardware is definitely high quality, I'm not entirelyblown away by the design. It looks really nice, and original, but it'sa little too cutesy in shape and kind of reminds me of an oversizedpebble. A slightly larger screen could have definitely been put to gooduse, and I really don't like the black space on the sides of the screen.
A phone with a built-in QWERTY still hasn't touched the iPhone interms of sleekness and pure sex. And it might still be a while. Advantage: iPhone
4. Development platform: The Pre's "Web OS" suresounds nice—all developers need to know is JavaScript, HTML and CSS?Sounds good in theory, but building a mobile app will never be as easyas cranking out a new theme for your Tumblr. Palm's stressing ease ofdevelopment, though, so it will be interesting to see how it stacks upagainst Apple's solid, familiar-to-devs OS X-based SDK and Android'sfully open source approach. Advantage: Pre? If it's straight-up JavaScript, that's a lotof programmers ready to go. Note: we had iPhone here before, but we'veswitched with a qualification. Developer community still goes to iPhonefor volume.
5. Web Integration: The Pre subtly integrates theinternet into the phone at every opportunity, and it's awesome.Contacts get pulled in from Facebook, Gmail, IM and and scanned fordupes; the messaging app shows your last several emails, IMs and SMSwith that contact in a single window. Really, really smart stuff. Advantage: Pre
6. App Store/developer community: A smartphone isonly as good as the software it runs. On the Pre, Palm is still keepingapplication delivery details like pricing behind the curtain, but theydid say the app delivery will be entirely handled by the phone (withouta desktop app), which is a shame. They're saying that they're not goingto duplicate Apple's Hobbesian app approval black box mistake, whichAndroid has also hasn't fallen for, but there will be anapproval process based on "security and stability." But as we know withAndroid, a dev community needs enough devices in the hands of consumersto reach critical mass, which the Pre will have to match. Advantage: iPhone, even with the black box, but Android and Pre's more open stances are reassuring.
7. Wireless charger: We've seen wireless charger tech for years at CES, but it's taken this long for a major consumer gadget to come bundled with its own wireless charger in the box. Whoops, it's not in the box, sold separately for unknown $$. But still: Bravo. Advantage: Pre
8. The Network: Dan Hesse, Sprint's CEO, gave our coast-to-coast 3G testa shout out in his press conference. Of course he did: Sprint won (indownload speeds). Sprint was the only major carrier without a powerful,hype-catching smartphone choice, and now they have one. The Pre is adata-centric phone with a network we've proven to be strong in a largeswatch of the country—that's a good combo. But would you switch toSprint for the Pre? Ugh. Advantage: Not cut and dry for everyone, but we stand by our numbers: Sprint is the best 3G network in our tests.
9. Physical keyboard: It's preference, but one heldby a large swathe of the gadget buying public: physical QWERTY keypadsare still the mainstream input of choice. Touch is getting better allthe time, but a lot of people still want physical keyboards.But better yet is the ability to choose; unfortunately, the Pre doesn'thave a soft onscreen keyboard, and its slide-out is the same meh QWERTYfrom the Treo Pro. Advantage: It's preference, but on me, the iPhone's soft keyboard can't be beat.
10. Camera: The Pre has an LED Flash for its 3MPcamera, something both the iPhone and G1 lack. Flash cellphone photosare ugly, but for a lot of people, they're good enough. So credit forthrowing it in. Advantage: Pre
11. Battery: Apple's still an outlier with theirnon-removable battery; like the G1's, the Pre's comes out for a spareswap too. We've heard Apple's reasons for this a million times, we knowthe drill, but removable batteries will never stop being handy. Advantage: Pre
12. Copy & Paste: Yep, Pre's got it. iPhone still doesn't. Advantage: Pre/G1
13. Browser: All three use a browser based on WebKit, which has become the standard for the mobile web. We couldn't put it through our Mobile Browser Battlemodoringer obviously, but what we saw looked great, and it's the only othermobile browser besides the iPhone that supports multitouch zooming. Advantage: iPhone/Pre
So there you have it. We're excited. Are you? |
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发表于 10-1-2009 14:07:46
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