The Palm Pre is a very reliable phone, with fast hardware.

My family has owned two Palm Pre phones since June 2009, when it was first released; about 5 months now, and both phones have been rock-solid and consistently reliable. In addition, the Palm Pre phone comes with a 1 year manufacturer warranty - which shows that it was built to last. I use my phone about 1 to 3 hours each day - to talk on the phone, surf the web, and listen to music.

As far as WebOS, it is simply the most advanced and user friendly smart phone operating system on the market. It is at least two years ahead of the competition.

The WebOS operating system is very fast, so opening and running multiple applications at the same time give you a nice user experience. I love everything about this phone. Especially the fact that it is much more solid than some people were guessing it would be. It proves that in life, there is no substitute for actual experience.

If the Palm Pixi was available when I purchased my Palm Pre, I would have bought the Palm Pre for myself, and the Palm Pixi for my wife. Oh well, that is life!

I find this interesting, no one wants Flash 10.1, yet everyone is asking when it will come on their device.

I for one am looking forward to Flash 10.1 on the Palm Pre. If you don't want Flash, disable it on your browser - there, problem solved!

Actually, the Palm Pre does not have a problem with the build quality. We bought 2 Palm Pre phones in June 2009, and have been using it for about five months now – both work perfectly. The initial manufacturing issues were fixed in August.

Two things here though, Palm should have used the same back cover that comes with the Touch Stone charger. It is much nicer and feels more durable than the one that ships with the Palm Pre. It just makes the Palm Pre look more like the quality device it is. The good news is that you can buy it. It also prevents the Pre from slipping or sliding when you put it on your desk. And it makes the Palm Pre feel much nicer in your hands.

The second point that everyone seems to get wrong is that the Pre is designed with a slight degree of flexibility. What that means is that the top screen module and the bottom keyboard module are allowed to have a slight degree of flexibility which means that you can slightly twist the two parts. This is not a build quality problem; it is common to all Palm Pre phones, and thus a design and construction feature.

Gadget lovers rejoice. We will be the ones paying for all those zeros!

We (Wife and I) have owned 2 Palm Pre phones for 5 months, and the build quality is solid. And it comes with a 1 year warranty from Palm. And webOS is the best smart phone operating system. It’s not just the multi-tasking or synergy, it is the awesome cards interface and smart notifications – check out the many reviews. Plus they are adding approximately 200 new applications per month for webOS. The Palm Pre is simply a better Smart Phone than the BlackBerry. But if what you are looking for is a metal phone, then look somewhere else. But if you want a reliable phone and an awesome smart phone, the Palm Pre delivers.

It is estimated that Sprint sold over 600,000 Palm Pre phones in three months. As I said, I am one of those customers. Using this phone is great! I am talking from experience…

Josh is that you?

You didn’t even dress that good for the Engadget show. What’s up man? I nearly did not even notice you in that picture :-)

Sprint please fix your Ad… I am sure you have received the message by now.

Ok, we know the Palm Pixi runs WebOS and can wirelessly connect to the web for a great surfing experience. And we know that you (Sprint) just gave us free mobile to mobile minutes – awesome!

Tip: Here is how you can fix your ad – replace “WIFI capable” with “Wireless Internet Capable”.

And for this tip, please give me a free Palm Pixi phone!

The smaller the version number the more likely that it includes only bug fixes and a small number of changes. A larger version number usually includes new features that in some cases may significantly increase productivity.

Then get an adapter and expand one ("1") of your 3.0 USB port's to four ("4") 3.0 ports, when needed.

Apple is about control. Verizon is about control. But in this equation, Verizon is greater than Apple.

Why? It’s simple, Verizon owns the house (i.e. the network), and Apple wants to be a guest in the house, but on Apple’s terms. So my question to you is - who has more rights, the owner or the guest? Verizon has spent tens of billions of dollars building their network so don’t expect them to hand over control of their customers to Apple. Verizon is the only company that can prevent Apple from gaining monopolistic powers in the US cell phone industry the same way Microsoft dominates the desktop operating systems market. You and I as customers care only about what $200 phone device we would love to play with. But with Verizon, they care about whom their business partners are going to be; in other words, who they are going to marry. Verizon realizes that AT&T, even with the iPhone does not have a competitive advantage. The minute the iPhone leaves, all of AT&T’s summer lunch money will also go out of the window.

Look at Apple’s business model, their gross profit margin is stratospheric. I can imagine Apple coming to Verizon, and offering Verizon customers Apple TV in competition to Verizon’s own FiOS TV service. All you have to do is tether your iPhone to the Apple TV box which connects to your television and you can discontinue your Verizon FiOS Internet and FiOS Cable TV service. Oh and yes, that Apple TV signal will be fed through your Verizon cell phone network. And if you have any problems or complaints, give a bad rap about Verizon. I have not once heard Apple come to AT&T’s defense about the network problems their iPhone customers are having. Apple is doing a good job for their customers and their shareholders, the question is, will they be good for Verizon and Verizon’s shareholders?