Poll: How's your Palm Pre holding up?

It's been nearly a month since the launch of Palm's newest handset, the Pre. Since then, we here at Engadget have heard some vague and hard to substantiate claims of hardware failures -- cracked screens, a little broken plastic here and there -- but nothing on a large scale, so far as we can tell. We thought it was about time to turn it over to you the readers (the ones lucky enough to have a Pre, anyway), to tell us how the phone is holding up physically. Is it tough as nails or is it falling apart? Poll is after the break.

How's your Palm Pre holding up?

Mine's looking good, no problems!I've had one minor issue...I've had more than one minor issue, but I'm keeping it.Major problems! I'm taking it back (or already have).Pre? I don't have one of those.Vote

[reviewer69 @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:08PM]

u know it!! apple bo bo

[Templarian @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:37PM]

They should of had an option for:

"Major problems! I'm taking it back (or already have), and getting a new one (or already have)"

[Erik @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:15PM]

Thats just poor business Palm.
Try making a quality product next time,
and stop ripping off ideas from other companies OS.

[Look_Around_You @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:17PM]

And the Clak troll award goes to....Erik!

[GroovDude @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:27PM]

OH PLEASE! You can't really sit there and tell me that all other companies, Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Symbian are all angels in this outfit?

Get over yourself and your ego.

[Quantumphysics @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:23PM]

Looks like the majority of Engadget readers don't have a Pre.

Guess I know who the fanboys were.

Cause When I go to Engadget meet and greets, everyone standing on line has an iPhone or a Blackberry Curve.

[Wwhat @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:32PM]

Just shows iphone users goto meet and greets because they have nothing better to do and want to show off their iphone, the last part illustrated by you being able to witness everybody's phone proving they all waved it around rather than having it in their pockets.

[ChillyCat @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:46PM]

Wwhat got it 100% correctly.

Typical iphone gathering:

88% under the age of 27
74% overweight
62% still living at mommys and daddys house
71% use acne medications
91% come to such events with another male
2% attend with a female [tho, 1% of those females are the kids mommys]

[Erik @ Jul 3rd 2009 7:10PM]

Why are you guys so scared of the iphone?
Are you afraid of how rapidly its popularity is spreading?
Or do you hate Apple for all the innovative technology inside the device itself.

You have to resort to calling people names and making fun of their appearance instead of judging the device itself.
Why is that? Possibly because every major tech blog agrees its the king of phones so you have nothing left to do but troll?

lol funny shit :)

[Quantumphysics @ Jul 3rd 2009 7:11PM]

Chilly

Looks like you had to much Haterade this morning.

don't hate us cause we are down with the 3G.

[Erik @ Jul 3rd 2009 7:20PM]

I just wanna know how many of those 300,000 pre's sold were replacements.

Over at pre central the poll said 33% of people were on their third...

Dam so sales must be worse than they said. poor palm, poor sprint.

[Hawkman @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:24PM]

@ChillyCat: Dude, sounds like a pretty typical nerd gathering. What's your point?

[ill trooper @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:28PM]

ChillyCat: You share details that reveal a curiously accurate and intimate knowledge of such groups... Explain yourself.

[sweet greggo @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:42PM]

@Erik

No one is scared of the iPhone or its popularity. We just don't like you.

[bjsguess @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:58PM]

Erik = Paul A Chappell = tools that contribute nothing to this blog

[Erik @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:28PM]

@bjsguess
Luckily we have comments like your to make up for our ridiculous comments :)

[patriotsn1 @ Jul 3rd 2009 10:40PM]

before you reply to erik, please take the time to look at his myspace profile (its in his engadget profile) and ask yourself.... hasn't this poor fella been punished enough?

[Alan Strangis @ Jul 3rd 2009 10:49PM]

@ patriotsn1: LOL! Says it all!

[loosely_coupled @ Jul 4th 2009 2:02AM]

These polls are always so stupid, because they distort the results by having the "I don't own one" option. Just tell people who don't own one to not vote.

Here are the corrected percentages without "I don't own one":

# Mine's looking good, no problems! 4413 (54.9%)
# I've had one minor issue... 907 (11.3%)
# I've had more than one minor issue, but I'm keeping it. 603 (7.5%)
# Major problems! I'm taking it back (or already have). 2122 (26.4%)

= 34% with major problems or more than one minor issue
= 66% with no problems or minor issue

[loosely_coupled @ Jul 4th 2009 2:04AM]

@Chillycat

Did you record those numbers yourself at the last event?

[Wwhat @ Jul 4th 2009 6:59AM]

Did they ever do a similar poll on the iphone? I'm sure iphones get swapped a lot too, and I bloody well know people replace ipods on a regular basis, showing that apple's manufacturing is not as perfect as fanbois might claim.
And that's the point and the outrageousness, a poll on the pre and an iphone fan starts to claim iphones are better and more abundant, then when you reply about the percentage of iphone users they mention there are according to their own observations they go "why are people always 'bashing' the iphone?"
It all makes perfect sense.
Mind you I do think erik and Quantumphysics and whoever else has the same right to post as anybody else as far as I'm concerned, we all say controversial or annoying or silly things, sometimes in a single post :)

[rick @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:11PM]

lol, lets count how many times apple/iphone is mentioned

[Todd @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:13PM]

Let's not.

[gouken85 @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:40PM]

Yeah, it's getting boring with the mindless pre vs iphone trolling.
The comments section for Apple/Palm/Microsoft topics reminds me of the youtube comments sometimes. Very low quality posts.

[Garst @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:48PM]

Who can count THAT high?

[Richard Glitter @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:59PM]

iPhoneMentioned++;

[Barney @ Jul 3rd 2009 7:19PM]

FIRST!

[fffunfarm06 @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:34PM]

27 times on page 1 of the comments for apple/iphone. make that 29.

[Ryan @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:12PM]

I returned mine. I exchanged it two times (three phones) and all of them had major build quality issues. The screen is adversely effected by heat, and often splotchy. One HUGE [and fatal] error for me was that when I was multitasking--having five cards open--and received a call, my phone would lock up and either a) drop the call, or b) freeze for the duration of the ringing, or c) freeze until 1 second before voicemail.

Also, slightly bumping the phone jars the screen lose. Pressing on it with the slider closed makes the screen click (this isn't the BB Storm!).

I really REALLY wanted to love the phone. Web OS is great, but the phone just had too many issues to work out. I defended this phone from everybody, I played fanboy for a while, but eventually I took mine back to the Sprint store.

I was choosing between either this or the iPhone 3GS. I now have the 3GS. I'm fine with the switch.

[Rebajas @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:42PM]

[and fatal]

I'm sorry for your families loss - though I don't see how a phone could kill you.

[Jeremy K. @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:47PM]

The first three I had were defective. Now I have one that's great. It was annoying to have to go back so many times, but I'm happy enough now. It's much better than any other phone out there now, IMO.

[Ryan @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:50PM]

@rebejas
According to princeton.edu
fatal-- fateful: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance

The fact that the phone would hang and stall when i'm trying to answer phone calls is of decisive importance, and did have momentous consequences. So I returned it. Don't be an idiot and try to pick my words apart, it just makes you look dumb.

[Rebajas @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:56PM]

Bah - I concede on that point.

[Jacko @ Jul 3rd 2009 7:51PM]

I, too, was choosing between the iphone 3gs and the pre. I eventually chose the iphone. I wanted to get the pre for its web os, but the hardware just got too many bad reviews.

[O_O @ Jul 5th 2009 9:27AM]

I'm curious...
Why is Ryan's comment "Highly Ranked"?
Is it because he had major issues with the Pre? Or pointed out that the Pre has bad build quality?
Is it because he now apparently has an iPhone 3GS? Or apparently like iPhones now?

[NickNick @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:14PM]

Twice

[Templarian @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:16PM]

Ouch. I had to replace my first one. This second one is good though.

[Andres @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:15PM]

WOW! i like how 78% (as of 2:13 PM) say they dont have it!

[ToniCipriani @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:37PM]

I voted I don't have one because I really don't have one and couldn't get one.

Palm, please hurry the damn up with the GSM version.

[maveric101 @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:29PM]

that's why i just hit the vote button without giving a choice. having all these people voting for the "this poll isn't really for me" choice just makes it a little harder to see the results of the other choices.

[Alan Strangis @ Jul 3rd 2009 11:00PM]

Well, considering that Engadget has an international audience, and the Pre is only available on one network in the US, 20-something % isn't bad.

[Kashy @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:15PM]

Pre?? Iphone ALL THE WAYY

[Rebajas @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:05PM]

Yeah - maybe that touchscreen keyboard could help your typing.

I shalln't hold my breath though...

[pina @ Jul 3rd 2009 6:40PM]

"shalln't"?

Maybe the iPhone's auto-correction keyboard would help with your grammar.

[jacktardo @ Jul 3rd 2009 7:20PM]

actually pina, "shalln't" is the correct spelling for an alternative form of "shall not". "shan't" would also work. the iphone wouldn't help in this case because that word has surpassed the intellectual capacity of its auto-correction and its users alike

[Barney @ Jul 3rd 2009 7:22PM]

i like grammar!

[Bradley @ Jul 3rd 2009 11:46PM]

will not = won't =/= willn't

[Gerard @ Jul 4th 2009 12:30AM]

Umm shalln't isn't even a word. Firefox's auto correct says it isn't and if you want more proof; if you Google shalln't one of the first few hits is a link to Urbandictionary.

[Sk8rman @ Jul 4th 2009 6:55AM]

Idk whats wrong with your google but I get this:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shalln%27t

[MAAD @ Jul 3rd 2009 5:16PM]

Listening to Aventura off mine right now. I like it but I do have the gap tooth issue with it and the screen/backlight bleeding. Other than that I've been able to keep a 2 day charge with internet browsing, 1-2 HRS of Pandora, and light email usage. Plan on returning mine in a couple months when the build quality gets better.