unity04
01-19-2011, 05:48 PM
I purchased an HTC Desire Z last week and sold it this week for a Palm Pre. Most people I told this to said I was crazy, but read on.
I bought a Desire Z off contract and was hyped to use the phone. After a week of using it, I found that it was a great phone for browsing the web and multimedia stuff, however, it failed to do the basics of a phone. When I would make a call to people it would sometimes hang up after a few seconds, and if it did go through, I would sound like a demon on the person's end of the line. Too many people told me that I sounded distorted and heard random noises, sounds, and my voice sounded like an mp3 file below 96kbps. Very bad. I talked to some other Desire Z owners and some of them are on their 4th device and experience the same issue. I don't see a point in having a phone if it can't make a phone call properly (this was happening frequently through out the day btw). Also, I found with the Desire Z there were too many bugs that HTC has yet to fix from previous versions such as things like the alarm going off x amount of minutes late, mms threading scrolling up by itself when typing a message, etc. I decided to sell the phone and get an in between device I could use until the Motorla Atrix is released and decided on the Palm Pre.
First off, the Palm Pre off contract is $149. This has to be the cheapest data phone I found, and is actually very good. The only thing I don't like is the hardware build quality- extremely cheap and way too much plastic. The phone's slide out QWERTY keyboard is surprisingly good. When I first bought the phone I thought the keys were WAY too small.. amazing keyboard (better than the Desire Z and LG Optimus Quantum (owned before the Desire Z- LG dropped the ball on this phone btw)). A lot of people said the CDMA network is bad, but I found that the call quality is amazing and the data speeds aren't that much slower. I also use WiFi in my house and on my school's campus, so when using WiFi you don't notice a difference between Desire Z and Pre (flash obviously is missing). The phone's OS is quick and responsive even though it's rocking a 600MHz processor, and everything seems to work great. Camera is very good, has video recording, flash, push e-mail and social notifications, notification alert light (Quantum failed to have this essential), and overall is a solid phone and great multitasker. The phone obviously does have some cons- no flash support, screen isn't that large (3.1 inches I believe), no Twitter app (still yet to find one), no on screen keyboard. If anyone has had the chance to use a Pre 2 please do post your experience with it.. might purchase it on Rogers and unlock it Bell. Possibly.
Why am I posting this? I've read a lot of people bashing the Palm Pre, and I had to drive to a few Bells because a lot of them no longer sold the phone. Compared to high spec'd tech phones like Desire Z and Quantum, this phone (besides hardware), has done if not on par but a superior job if you can believe that. It does the basics of a phone (which Desire + Quantum failed to do) and is wicked with apps (great app market), data processing and multimedia. If you're looking for a device to use as a back up or in between phone get the Palm Pre before all Bell stores drop them. Yes it's CDMA, but it actually isn't bad. +1 for the Palm Pre and being less than $200 after taxes off contract.
I bought a Desire Z off contract and was hyped to use the phone. After a week of using it, I found that it was a great phone for browsing the web and multimedia stuff, however, it failed to do the basics of a phone. When I would make a call to people it would sometimes hang up after a few seconds, and if it did go through, I would sound like a demon on the person's end of the line. Too many people told me that I sounded distorted and heard random noises, sounds, and my voice sounded like an mp3 file below 96kbps. Very bad. I talked to some other Desire Z owners and some of them are on their 4th device and experience the same issue. I don't see a point in having a phone if it can't make a phone call properly (this was happening frequently through out the day btw). Also, I found with the Desire Z there were too many bugs that HTC has yet to fix from previous versions such as things like the alarm going off x amount of minutes late, mms threading scrolling up by itself when typing a message, etc. I decided to sell the phone and get an in between device I could use until the Motorla Atrix is released and decided on the Palm Pre.
First off, the Palm Pre off contract is $149. This has to be the cheapest data phone I found, and is actually very good. The only thing I don't like is the hardware build quality- extremely cheap and way too much plastic. The phone's slide out QWERTY keyboard is surprisingly good. When I first bought the phone I thought the keys were WAY too small.. amazing keyboard (better than the Desire Z and LG Optimus Quantum (owned before the Desire Z- LG dropped the ball on this phone btw)). A lot of people said the CDMA network is bad, but I found that the call quality is amazing and the data speeds aren't that much slower. I also use WiFi in my house and on my school's campus, so when using WiFi you don't notice a difference between Desire Z and Pre (flash obviously is missing). The phone's OS is quick and responsive even though it's rocking a 600MHz processor, and everything seems to work great. Camera is very good, has video recording, flash, push e-mail and social notifications, notification alert light (Quantum failed to have this essential), and overall is a solid phone and great multitasker. The phone obviously does have some cons- no flash support, screen isn't that large (3.1 inches I believe), no Twitter app (still yet to find one), no on screen keyboard. If anyone has had the chance to use a Pre 2 please do post your experience with it.. might purchase it on Rogers and unlock it Bell. Possibly.
Why am I posting this? I've read a lot of people bashing the Palm Pre, and I had to drive to a few Bells because a lot of them no longer sold the phone. Compared to high spec'd tech phones like Desire Z and Quantum, this phone (besides hardware), has done if not on par but a superior job if you can believe that. It does the basics of a phone (which Desire + Quantum failed to do) and is wicked with apps (great app market), data processing and multimedia. If you're looking for a device to use as a back up or in between phone get the Palm Pre before all Bell stores drop them. Yes it's CDMA, but it actually isn't bad. +1 for the Palm Pre and being less than $200 after taxes off contract.