Do you still remember one of the highlights @ CES 2009 earlier this year? It was Palm’s first official announcement of the Palm Pre running on the Palm WebOS.  Almost two weeks ago Palm together with mobile operator Sprint announced the availability of the Palm Pre on the Sprint Now Network.

In these two weeks several great reviews of the Palm Pre have hit the web. Craig Froehle from Gearbits, a Palm expert from the first hour, has created a Palm Pre review round-up on the Gearbits website. It’s an overview of 21 (!!) complete hands-on reviews, each complemented with a short conclusion. If you are still indecisive about purchasing a Palm Pre you should definitely take your time to read the reviews via Gearbits.

Next to the early reviews, also some first “issues” with the Palm Pre hit the web. A good friend Joel Evans from Geek.com also purchased a Palm Pre right away, but -although it seems to be an isolated incident- his Palm Pre got some ”deep” scratches on its screen.  Another interesting feature is the remote erase function on the Palm Pre. Precentral has written an article about a user who ran into trouble by using the remote erase function, which almost resulted in a bricked device.

What are your thoughts and first experiences about the Palm Pre device ?

About Craig Froehle & Memoware

“Memoware is a term originally coined in 1996 for data formatted for the Memopad application that was shipped with the original U.S. Robotics Pilot (now Palm) Personal Digital Assistant. The MemoWare website was started shortly afterward by Craig Froehle as a central repository for memoware, and now hosts thousands of documents (in various formats) for Palm OS devices and other handhelds.” [ref02]

Reference List

1. GEARBITS:  Palm Pre Review Round-Up
2. WIKIPEDIA:  Memoware