Palm Pre vs iPhone 3.0

The upcoming release of Palm Pre will be a hot one. Even though the Palm Pre was dubbed as the iPhone killer, it remains to be seen if this new smartphone from Palm will really displace iPhone. The Palm Pre was designed to compete with Apple's iPhone but the catch here is that it was not designed to compete for the current iPhone but the upcoming generation.

But even before the Palm Pre's release, Apple already released a software update version 3.0 to its iPhones. The software basically fixes the features that people are looking for in the iPhone. The update will actually compete with the highlighted features of Palm Pre.



The Search Function. Palm Pre's search functionality allows keyword hunts in "web and user’s applications, contacts, and dialing information," as well as web pages. This was not available in iPhone until the version 3.0 software release.

Multitasking. Palm Pre can do "multiple activities" as compared to Apple iPhone which lacks this feature. But again, this was addressed in the iPhone version 3.0.

Calendar syncing. The Pre uses Palm's Synergy to link up Outlook, Google and even Facebook calendars to one location, whereas iPhone 2.0's Calendar app is more than a little limited--you can't even invite meeting requests from the phone. The new firmware adds support for Exchange, CalDAV and .ics formats for subscribing to different calendars, and it'll let you create meeting invitations. CalDAV is supported by Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar beta and others, making it a now potentially fully-synchronized Calendar app.

Camera. This is one feature that iPhone really lacks while the Pre has a 3-megapixel digital camera with an LED flash light.

Stereo Bluetooth. The Pre has A2DP, the current iPhone doesn't.

Copy and Paste functionality. The iPhone does not support copy and paste functionality while Palm Pre does.

But again, all these mentioned features are to be expected from iPhone in its version 3.0 release. So we will really have to wait for the results whether Palm Pre will topple iPhone.