Alex Hearts @Palm

I was going to write this huge blog about my first day with the Palm Pre but after I wrote it all, I realized it was boring and didn’t serve the purpose for the blog entry, which is to show that I like the phone. So I’ll sum it up.

I like the Palm Pre Plus.

No. I love the Palm Pre Plus.

Multitasking is amazing, the App Catalog is great (take note, Android - iPhone, you’re fine), the developer and WebOS community is incredibly welcoming, and the list goes on.

I love the way WebOS handles notifications and messages. I LOVE how it grabs all of my contacts from Facebook, Google, and AIM and merges them together without me asking it.

All in all, I can tell why Pre owners are so fanatical. They’re (I’m still feeling too n00b to say ‘we’) like Mac users in the 80s. There’s just so much positivity in the Palm/WebOS camp that you can’t help but get excited about the platform after you’ve acquired a Pre or Pixi.

Here’s what’s doubly-awesome: There’s still land left in the App Catalog. My intentions for webOS were originally just to bring Spenderbot over to it so I could get my Pe-owning friends to use my app. But now… now I think I’m going to try and fill as many niches as I can. It’s like it’s the App Store, circa 2008, all over again.

It’s truly exciting.

Splendid job, Palm. Good job HP. Not sure where you dropped the ball AT&T with the launch (seriously, not a single item in the AT&T corporate store mentioned the Pre launch).

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