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I've had my Pre now for about 5 months now, and from my view, the design was "Cool" with the slide out keyboard, however it has made the quality perception lower because of all of the "Oreo" effect I keep hearing about. My Pre, however has not had too much of that effect, however it has loosened a bit. The mini-USB cover initially seemed to be a pain and I would have rather had done without it. The cover does make it look cleaner, however if they just framed the plastic around the metal, it would have been perfectly fine for me and no one would have complained that the cover falls off. As far as the WebOS is concerned, I think Palm's done a great job with it so far, the guys like Jason has made it so much more functional, however it still has some improvement needed in speed and there needs to be more productive apps released in the future. This device should be able to replace your laptop for the road warriors. So it means you need the "office" docs. Google docs doesn't work yet and DataVis's documents to go isn't released yet either. There is no access at this point to browse your file system from the browser to download or upload files. You've got to use the built in FTPs for that. We also need a file compression/archive program which supports security encryption.
With all of these limitations, still the WebOS is a great start in my opinion. I love the ability to synergize the contacts from all of my online contact databases like linkedin, Facebook, MS Exchange Server, Google Contact, etc. This makes my life easier as I don't have to now contact everyone to have them send me their contact information. They just need to keep their Facebook or Linkedin account updated and allow me to see the info. The same goes for calendaring and the ability to pull all of the calendars into one view. I wish my work MS Outlook could do what WebOS's calendar can do. 
I was not a texter before, however I use this much more, thanks to Sprint's unlimited texting and the fact that it's integrated with the contacts.
Google Maps still is a big winner as I use it for so many things when I'm in the car. Near time traffic, directions, searching for locations of places I need to go to or find in a pinch.
WebBrowser is fairly fast and supports most sites well enough. It however needs some more improvements.
Camera is fair and needs a better flash as indoor pics don't seem to be bright enough for the camera's sensor and would be nice if it had a zoom feature. Video is coming soon! I just hope we can preview the view from the screen like a camera does. I'm sure this will be soon as people are working on that as we speak.
Music (Remix) player is awesome! Improvements could be to add an equalizer on it and to be able to support videos, so we can just get rid of the video player. (call it Media Player (Remix)).
Weather apps work decenly well. I haven't found one which I'm stuck on. I use Accuweather and Weather.com's versions.
Net2stream is a nice streaming application, though this could also be integrated into Media Player.
Clock is very useful. I love the fact that you can set multiple alarms and name it what ever you want with the re-occuring feature of Daily, Weekdays, Weekends etc) Only other suggestion to be added is ring on a specific day of the week. The ringer tone selection is also a great feature for different notifications. Oh yeah. one last suggestion to build in the clock is to have a count down timer set up (one we can use for cooking!! as a reminder)
Those are the apps I use today.. I have a launch page for all of my homebrew tweaks, one for games, one for (fast dialers, facebook apps, phone utilities like gdial, visual voicemail) ; one for the basic apps I use all of the time which I described up above, one for the Sprint stuff, doc view, pdf view, palm reader, calculator, and the last page for the system stuff (pretty much default stuff).
Bottom line, it's getting there, slowly but surely.
I think Palm needs to have a web site for communication and collaboration on user needs for the WebOS, Killer Apps needed, and one for apps... PreCentral does a good job of this, however, I'm not sure it's too easy to read for the palm folks as well as they don't reply as an official palm employee here. Is there a site for this on palm's website? If not they need one.
Sprint needs to keep the faith on the Palm Pre and WebOS. More importantly WebOS. The big question is can WebOS work on other platforms, which is not sold by Palm? Let's say a Chinese manufacture wants to produce a clone of Motorola's droid or HTC's Hero, Apple's Iphone., since they all use similar processors, graphic processors, etc... would WebOS work on them with a few customizations? (drivers?) Food for thought!
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