Comparison Between iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre

Comparison Between iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre What’s up guys and girls? Jon Rettinger here and I want to give you a head-to-head comparison of arguably the two hottest smart phones on the market right now, the iPhone 3GS for AT&T and the Palm Pre for Sprint. About two weeks ago, I did a head-to-head comparison of the iPhone 3G with the Palm Pre without— it wouldn’t so fair since the 3G was running about year old hardware. So the 3GS has been out just about a day and the Palm has been out for a little over two weeks. This is a more Apples to Apples comparison. The screens have been dimmed down on each of this so it will show up a little bit more on the camera. So to unlock an iPhone, slide to unlock and to unlock a Palm Pre, you slide that up. So, I relied very heavily on calendaring. I forget appointments left and right. So for me, a calendar on smart phone is of outmost important. So let’s launch the calendar apps on each of these and see how quickly they load. Try to hit them both at the same time and the iPhone 3G clearly launch that much, much faster. Click Close both to those. And for those of you that may follow me on twitter, you know I do a lot of twitting so let me launch to third party twitter apps on both phones. Let’s see how quickly they load. It’s certainly not the same application so this might not be the most fair comparison but it does show you the speed of two native applications that do the same thing. So we’re going to load Twitterrific on the iPhone and we’re going to load tweet on the Palm Pre. The hardest thing is trying to hit these buttons at the same time. Okay. So, Twitterrific is already loading. Tweet is still loading up. And there it is, it is loaded up. So, you can see that the 3GS was noticeably quicker. And yesterday I did a comparison if a 3GS versus the 3G, it can see the S really does stand for speed. Let’s go and close both of these applications. We’re going to close the application on the Palm. You push the home button and you throw it off of the screen. So next thing that I want to show you guys is screen rotation. That’s a very important thing. Both features accelerometers so as you’re using it and you are looking at a web page or whatever, you turn the device. You wanted to be able to rotate relatively quickly. So, let me go ahead and show you that on a web page. And then we’re going to do a full browser comparison on each of the devices. So I'm going to load up my YouTube page on each of these and we’ll do a full browser comparison in just a moment. So, there it is on the Palm Pre and there it is on the iPhone 3GS so let’s see how quickly both of these rotate and you zoom out just a bit. All right and we’re off. And the Palm Pre was faster. Let’s try it the other way to make sure that was accurate. Nope the Pre was faster again. Try it one more time and still the Pre was faster. So when it comes to screen rotation, the Palm Pre actually is a little bit quicker. So since we’ve got the browser open on each of these, let’s do a browser speed test and we’re going to compare 3G and Wi-Fi. 3G speeds are going to vary depending on where you are but Wi-Fi is going to be at constant. So right now, these are both running on the same Wi-Fi network so we are going to refresh both of these pages on my YouTube channel and see how quickly they load over wi-fi, and they will do head to head over 3G. So let’s hit the refresh button on each of these and see how quickly the y load and then we will try and turn a new web page as well when that wasn’t already loaded onto the device. So go ahead and hit on each, try to do at the same time. There we go and they're both off. It looks to be relativity close. The 3GS is done almost the exact same time that the Palm Pre was done. So let’s go ahead launch a new web page that’s not stored in the memory on either of these. I’ve cleared it and let’s see how this works. So I've got pocketmail.com ready to load on Wi-Fi on both of these devices. So let’s see how quickly each of them does it. Okay and they’re both off. Both are almost done, so the 3GS finish just barely before the Palm Pre. So now let’s go to 3G signal strength and I've got five bars of signal strength on the 3GS and I've got five bars of signal strength on the Pre. So let me go ahead and turn the Wi-Fi off and we’ll come back and continue the testing. So, Wi-Fi has been turned off and I've got gadgets.com cued up and ready to go. Let’s see how quickly both of these can do it. Okay I've been hit at the same time and it really seem to be very, very closely matched and speed this far. There’s really no clear cup winner. And the 3GS is already done, and the Pre is still loading. This is one of the first tests that we’ve actually seen. One of the devices is finished that much quicker. And now we’re finally done. So in this case on a web site that’s fairly graphic intensive, it has a lot of text. The 3GS was noticeably faster. So one of the things that I tested in my 3Gversus 3GS video—a text message came through—was the ability to scroll without having the page need to refresh and load. And for those of you who were using a 3G or an older iPhone, you’ll know it as you scroll down, you kind of get those blue and gray checkers bars so let’s see if that happens on either of these. So, there it is on the Pre and nothing on the iPhone 3GS. So the 3GS can handle a faster scrolling. Clearly right there to Pre, it cannot. So it’s something definitely something to keep in mind, the 3GS definitely has a little it of a faster processor than the Pre does. So as you guys can probably guess I love YouTube and I like to watch YouTube videos on my phone and both of these devices come with built in YouTube viewers. So let me show you each of them look like. So there is the YouTube on the iPhone and let’s launch on the Pre as well. We’ll do a speed test quickly and see each of them launch although there are different applications. Try it one more time. Okay. So both are launching their YouTube applications and you’re really limited with options on what you can do with the Palm Pre. On the iPhone, you can view most viewed featured. You can do it by today, this week, or all. On the Pre, it is really limited to just popular most viewed in history and you have the option by viewing by day or week. It really doesn’t tell you how it’s groups. And if you view popular by day on each, the video don’t match up so I'm not sure what’s sort of algorithm the Pre is using. Let me show you what videos look like on both. You can see they don’t match up here. So let’s try the video quality on YouTube and this is just over 3G. We’re not over wi-fi so this is how it would look if you’re out on the road and not at home. And I'll turn the volume all the way up. Wow! That was annoying but its speaker very loud and the quality is actually very strong over 3G. So let’s try the same thing using the Palm Pre. To get very different load, I will turn the volume all the way up. Okay. That was enough of that. I do have to say I've been very impress with the speaker on the Palm Pre. It crushed the 3G speaker but the 3GS speaker is just on par. So speaker-wise, both of these are very, very, very loud. You’re going to get really good volume and I think pretty decent audio fidelity out of each. So the big difference about each of these phones, any the thing that I should really mention is that the Palm Pre lets you multi-task. Meaning, I can open the phone, the application and I can go and open my Twitter application. And while I'm doing that, I can go and open let’s say YouTube. I have the ability to multi-task and I can manage my applications using what Palm is calling there card system so I can scroll through different applications. If I want to launch, just tap it. And If I want to close one, I’ll just wipe it off the screen. And multi-tasking really is fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed using it on the Pre. There are a lot times when I though that I wouldn’t use the ability of multi-task. I didn’t think it was necessary. But the more I had the Pre, the more I've realized that I was using it much more often than I expected. So the other big difference with the Pre and the iPhone is of course the slide out QWERTY keyboard. The Palm Pre does not feature a scrolling keyboard like the iPhone 3G does so you’re relying entirely on those keys which definitely takes some getting use to. They are a little bit smaller and relativity flushed but you will get use to it. The only problem with the keyboard on the Pre is that there is no auto-correct. I would expect Palm to update that in the near future but you are going to make a ton of mistakes. The keyboard on the 3GS, now goes in landscape and auto-correct so I'm actually much more accurate now on the 3GS keyboard than on the physical keyboard of the Pre. So the iPhone 3GS now has the ability to record video using 3-mega pixels sensor. The camera on the back of the Pre right now does not record a video. Here’s at least something to keep in mind. The 3GS also gives you a Compiz, the video editing ability and a few other features. But for the most part, smart phone for smart phone. You are getting a lot of the same benefits although you are getting different networks. I will say at least in my case, I've been very happy with Sprint’s network. The signal strength has been strong. The voice quality has been great and I really like using Sprint’s built-in navigation service for navigation. Right now, the iPhone 3GS does not have turn by turn navigation although it was promised to be coming relativity soon from Tom-Tom. So the question is, to which one you should get really is going to be up to you. You can see that speed here really wasn’t that big an issue between both devices. They are both very, very fast. If you like the iPhone for its elegance, answering keyboard or its huge, huge, huge app store, or you’re already at AT&T, the iPhone 3GS is absolutely fantastic. The Palm Pre if you’re— don’t get relative,— if you don’t get good AT&T service where you are or I know a lot of you just don’t like Apple, the Palm Pre is as if it has a platform and it really use that infancy seeing as it is its only its first release. So, I can recommend actually both devices. I can't really give you a clear cut winner unfortunately. I will say they are both powerful, feature-rich phones. I don’t think you can go wrong with either one. 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