The Palm Pre goes on sale Saturday as the latest rival to the iPhone, and true to its name there have been plenty of Pre-leaks before Palm Saturday. Without explanation, a draft of David Pogue's New York Times review of the gadget allegedly ran on a Web site in India before it hit the newspaper's own site Thursday. Seriously? Gadget Lab says Pogue confirmed that the review on the Hyderabad-based Financial Chronicle site was his. Explanation, please? No? Although PreThinking calls Pogue's review (non-outsourced version here) "very neutral," Observes Edible Apple: "Overall, Pogue seems to really like the Pre, giving it high marks for its hardware design and Palm's new Web OS. The biggest negative Pogue sees is its lackuster battery life, which he calls the 'Pre's heartbreaker.'" At All Things D, Walter Mossberg calls the Pre "potentially the strongest rival to the iPhone to date, provided it attracts lots of third-party apps, which it sorely lacks at launch." But a Business Week reviewer is underwhelmed: "The growing list of disappointments undermines what everyone saw as a fairy tale comeback." Quote from
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The Palm Pre goes on sale Saturday as the latest rival to the iPhone, and true to its name there have been plenty of Pre-leaks before Palm Saturday. Without explanation, a draft of David Pogue's New York Times review of the gadget allegedly ran on a Web site in India before it hit the newspaper's own site Thursday. Seriously? Gadget Lab says Pogue confirmed that the review on the Hyderabad-based Financial Chronicle site was his. Explanation, please? No? Although PreThinking calls Pogue's review (non-outsourced version here) "very neutral," Observes Edible Apple: "Overall, Pogue seems to really like the Pre, giving it high marks for its hardware design and Palm's new Web OS. The biggest negative Pogue sees is its lackuster battery life, which he calls the 'Pre's heartbreaker.'" At All Things D, Walter Mossberg calls the Pre "potentially the strongest rival to the iPhone to date, provided it attracts lots of third-party apps, which it sorely lacks at launch." But a Business Week reviewer is underwhelmed: "The growing list of disappointments undermines what everyone saw as a fairy tale comeback." Quote from
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