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Cada día que se aproxima el lanzamiento de la Palm Pre, las críticas de todos los medios se han incrementado haciendo, seguramente, que Palm se arrepienta de haber mostrado sus demostraciones a diferentes medios esperando que fueran del agrado de estos e hicieran buena publicidad de este dispositivo.
Crunchgear ha hecho una recopilación de las opiniones de los medios más prestigiosos a nivel de noticias y tecnología en Estados Unidos cuyo grito ha sido unánime y en el que se destacan más sus penosidades que sus ventajas en cuanto a Palm Pre y sobre todo destaca la inestabilidad y es que no es muy criticable el hecho de que en su Market haya tan solo unas pocas decenas de aplicaciones para este dispositivo, lo peor es que gran parte de estas vuelven inestable al dispositivo.
Si bien ayer criticaba a BusinessWeek por su escasez de objetividad y falta de argumentación, los medios que han ido informando sobre Palm Pre han ido ampliando la idea inicial de BusinessWeek, la de un dispositivo verde, inacabado e inestable que se pondrá a la venta como producto final algo que hará más daño que bien en el renacimiento de Palm.
Recopilación:
In fact, during my testing, one of my downloads from the App Catalog caused my Pre to crash disastrously — all my email, contacts and other data were wiped out, and the phone was unable to connect to the Sprint network or Wi-Fi. Palm conceded the catastrophe was due to problems it still has getting the App Catalog to work with the phone’s internal memory, and explained that this is one reason it hasn’t widely distributed the developer tools.
Still, I encountered occasional sluggishness and bugs. At one point, the clock was out of whack. At another, I had to shut down the Pre because the onscreen icons kept dancing around. I also longed for the visual voice mail feature of the iPhone — Pre’s unobtrusive “notifications” dashboard flagging incoming messages, system alerts and such is no substitute. And I wish Pre had more third-party applications at launch. Too bad, as with the iPhone, there’s no video camera.
But the hardware? Cheap. Flimsy. Dangerous even. [The keyboard] is not good enough for a smartphone. Each of my thumbs take up the width of four keys, ensuring that only a fingernail approach would get me anywhere near accurate typing.
Besides the standard issues we had with the construction of the phone, we did spot another peculiar problem we hope is just a one-in-a-million fluke with the test device we were given: it physically broke… There is a small flap that covers the MicroUSB port, and while attempting to get the thing open, a thin piece of plastic which runs along the bottom of the casing just snapped. Now, we’re not saying this is a widespread problem—in fact, reps at Palm claimed this was the first time they’d seen it happen—but it was a little disconcerting.
There’s one major kicker. When the Pre is attached to a PC to sync media, it cannot make or receive calls or text messages!!! What the what?!? Palm doesn’t provide an explanation, but that’s just ridiculous.
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The hardware comes off as feeling a little bit on the cheap side. That’s unfortunate. Some will find the QWERTY keyboard difficult to use, though I thought it was okay. The lack of expandable memory means it is limited to the 8GB of on-board storage.
Oscuro futuro le veo yo a la Palm Pre, al menos la primera versión de WebOS
