Palm Pre Plus Review
By admin on March 31st, 2010
In addition to having a better keyboard design the Palm Pre Plus has a more solid feel to it when you hold it in your hand; this phone measures 3.9 x 2.3 x 0.6 inches and weighs 4.89 ounces. Aside from these differences, the Palm Pre Plus is basically the same smartphone as the Palm Pre, but with some enhanced features.
The Palm Pre Plus does offer twice the flash memory as the other model at 16 GB, but unfortunately there is still no expandable memory. Another new feature is support for 3D gaming, but there are only a handful of games that are available as of yet. With the release of Palm WebOS 1.4 this phone has even more functionality; you get flash support and more.
With the Palm Pre Plus being a 3G phone, you can surf the Internet at fast speeds, with web pages that load fast. Another nice feature of this phone is that you get a dedicated YouTube application so that you can easily watch streaming video from that site; this is in addition to the streaming video you get from V Cast.
As part of the Palm Pre Plus multimedia features there is a built in 3-megapixel camera, and although this camera does not offer a lot in the way of editing options, the photo quality is still quite impressive for a phone camera.
The call quality that you get with the Palm Pre Plus is fairly good, but there does tend to be some background noise evident. The speakerphone performs about the same. People on the other end cannot really tell that you are on a cell phone. The battery life is rated for 5.5 hours of talk time and 14.5 days of standby time. With average use of all the features on this phone the battery will last a little over one day.
If you already own the Palm Pre, there probably isn’t a lot of incentive to purchase the Palm Pre Plus, but if you are looking for a new cell phone it is definitely a nice choice.
