Time to upgrade... Palm Pre Plus vs Storm 2

[BlackberryBookWorm]

Hi everyone...

I am looking at upgrading my Curve 8330 to either the Storm 2 or Palm Pre Plus...

The Palm Pre Plus has never really been on my radar until now...

My main concerns/questions are this:
Battery Life (can it make it easy through the day with one charge and normal use - text, email, web browsing, facebook, twitter, etc.)
Applications (that's part of the reason why I like my Blackberry so much, it does everything that I want it to)
OS Stability (personally, I think the Android OS is a joke and needs some serious work. It has lots of potential, but it isn't there yet). How does the WebOS compare?

Any thoughts, direction to other sites or topics is appreciated!

Thanks!

PS - I'm still trying to learn the right way to search topics. My results bring back a wide assortment of posts.

[principalskinner]

I've had numerous Palm products and loved them all ...but ...my concern is ...will the company last ? They did not do well last quarter

[mitchell209]

I've heard everybody complaining about the Pre's battery life. It's not a good choice if you need a great battery.

There are many more apps for the Palm Pre than there are for Blackberrys, and everybody I know who has used a Palm Pre says the OS is pretty damn good.

[papped]

Pre battery life is borderline pathetic, just have to go in expecting that.

App selection is still kinda slim at this point.

You gotta remember, webOs is very young... Android is older and more developed than webOs.

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[dille_21]

Originally Posted by principalskinner

I've had numerous Palm products and loved them all ...but ...my concern is ...will the company last ? They did not do well last quarter

from the other topics ive read through,
the possibility of Palm disappearing soon most likely not.

it will be a slow and painful death.

[BlackberryBookWorm]

Originally Posted by papped

Pre battery life is borderline pathetic, just have to go in expecting that.

App selection is still kinda slim at this point.

You gotta remember, webOs is very young... Android is older and more developed than webOs.

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Pathetic battery life - Strike 1

Slim app selection - Strike 2

Early stage webOS (like Android) - Strike 3

The Palm Pre Plus is OUT OF HERE!! I'm going with the Storm 2...

Thanks all!

[GlitchZero]

Solid choice.

[dille_21]

Originally Posted by BlackberryBookWorm

Slim app selection - Strike 2

i would have agreed with your choice.
but did you include homebrew apps with that app selection?
I'll admit its still small but those homebrew apps do help out alot

[possiblybored]

LOL. I have a Palm Pre and I'm here about to post a message about which BlackBerry I should ditch it for. You should run away from the Pre like the hot mess that it is. The battery life is amazing; I never knew a phone could die so fast! I mean you can do NOTHING with it and it will still last you ten hours if you're lucky! Don't be lured in by the attractive OS--it's nice but you will only be using it while attached to the charger. Run, run away!

[papped]

Homebrew apps don't exactly expand the app selection like crazy. Its more useful for patches to fix OS problems or missing features and themes.

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[xxxxpradaxxxx]

Originally Posted by BlackberryBookWorm

Battery Life (can it make it easy through the day with one charge and normal use - text, email, web browsing, facebook, twitter, etc.)
Applications (that's part of the reason why I like my Blackberry so much, it does everything that I want it to)
OS Stability (personally, I think the Android OS is a joke and needs some serious work. It has lots of potential, but it isn't there yet). How does the WebOS compare?

Battery life: BAD unless you get a higher capacity battery, and live your life around a touchstone charger.

Apps: So so

OS stability: Pretty good.

WebOS vs RIM OS: WebOS by far. If Palm had BBM, there is no way I'd every use a BlackBerry again.

WebOS is by far the best multitasking phone around.

[papped]

Even the Pre Plus is still kinda laggy just navigating around... Tried one out finally at VZ. Didn't really seem like they improved the general speed vs the original Pre, it just launches more apps at once...

[berryg1]

As of today, the hotspot feature with the Pre is free (formerly $40 per month). That's a huge +++ in my opinion.

Verizon Wireless puts the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus on a fire sale « Boy Genius Report

[papped]

The only problem is that the Pre battery life as a wifi hotspot is gonna be terrible, unless you have it permanently plugged in to a charger....

[thecold]

Originally Posted by papped

The only problem is that the Pre battery life as a wifi hotspot is gonna be terrible, unless you have it permanently plugged in to a charger....

Wifi hotspot on any phone isn't exactly going to be good. You're essentially using it as a wifi router. Anyways I did some speednet tests while tethered on my Pre Plus, 2.6mbs down/.38mbs up on one testsite, on another it was 2.0mbs down/ .35mbs up. Both averaged 200-250 ping.