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I miss my palm pre... Best phone user interface i ever used and it was actually less sluggish than my galaxy running jawah with twice the computing power. But I admit the small screen, bad battery life and lack of apps was kinda shitty too...

After they replaced google- with bing-maps i had to put it down for good :(

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>>I miss my palm pre...

I don't. Mine had a nifty "feature" whereby one times out of five, sliding it shut would actually turn off the phone itself. As in, it would lose power completely and die.

I went through probably a hundred power-on sequences on that thing during the two weeks I owned it. I finally returned it to the store and bought an iPhone. Haven't looked back since.

My iPhone 4 when I received it would constantly shut down at 50% battery. That started two months after I bought it. Granted, I got it repaired, etc. but damn near every consumer electronic product runs into issues for someone. I never owned a Pre, but I always wanted to. Always had a soft-spot for Palm, mainly because of my lovely Sony Clie PDA back in the day.

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