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JWZ isn't being dramatic. The slogan should be "Plam Pre: your life, just slower". I had a Pre for a month, returned it on day 30. It was like living in molasses.

Plus the hardware was way way too cheap (fragile plastic screen, sharp edges on the keytray, poor fit between the sliding halves). I was afraid to use the phone for fear of breaking it. You could hear the plastic crunching everytime you typed on the keyboard.

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I was afraid to use the phone for fear of breaking it. You could hear the plastic crunching everytime you typed on the keyboard.

O/T: I'd like a concise term for this "author switches from 'I' to 'you' and ends up suggesting the reader's involvement where there couldn't have been any. (This reader couldn't hear the author's phone crunching).

It's like the reverse of the "royal we". Maybe the "common you" (meaning: I).

Hopefully after this drawing of attention to it, you will see and hear it everywhere and you, er, I can promptly forget about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you

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