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Originally Posted by klbjr
So when does the competition begin? Because from my scorecard the Pre hasn't scored a point yet. I'm not talking about what will hopefully happen. I'm talking about right now. Not "When or if we get this app" or "Hopefully when the new update comes it will do this or give us that." That is not competition, that is wishful thinking, guessing & hoping. I have seen all of the wish lists about what we will hopefully be getting and 2 or 3 updates later they haven't given us a thing. Still no apps, games, no video camera, text fwd, voice dialing, tethering...I could go on. So in the name of competition I see no reason for anyone to switch phones just yet because chances are your current phone can run circles around the Pre. Now maybe in a few months or after another WebOs device hits the market yes, but Palm nor anyone else has shown me one useful thing the Pre does that other phones currently on the market can't or haven't been doing. Maybe we need a comparison thread so we can see just how the Pre stacks up to other phones running different OS because call me stupid but after a month with the Pre and reading forums I must have missed somethings.
(Seriously people. It's been a month and I can't even play Solitaire or Texas Hold'Em!)
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Well if you want to play THAT game, there isn't a single thing that the iPhone, up until it got GPS, does or has done that the Treo 755p didn't do before it, except maybe wifi, which is really pretty much a non-issue anyway. And the 755p had a BUNCH of features that the iPhone didn't, and some that it STILL doesn't.
If you're looking for the most functional phone on the market, you won't find the Pre OR the iPhone at the top of the list.
If you're looking for the most innovative, I'd say the Pre and the iPhone are fairly even, with the Pre being in the lead ever so slightly.
A WebOS device with the build quality of the iPhone, and on a network as solid as, say, Verizon, with a reasonable plan price and the iPhone is in for some serious competition.
The whole "gotta have apps" crowd totally ignores the actual functionality of the phone in lieu of just having something new to play with, IMO.
A Facebook app, for instance, is largely pointless on the phone, provided they fix a few things and add a few features in different places in existing WebOS apps.