I got a chance to look at a Palm Pre the other day.  There's a lot to like about it.  Given a choice, I would probably prefer it to this IPhone I'm using now, but I can't believe the things Palm got wrong.

First off is the keyboard.  I could get used to it, I suppose, but it's more like the Centro's and not like my Treo's at all. It's cramped, and it has that lip around it getting in the way of your thumbs.

The biggest problem is the basic PIM apps.  I had been sure that Palm would bring over to WebOS everything good about the Palm OS apps.  Boy was I wrong.  The Treo is a great PIM that is also a decent phone.  The Pre appears to be a better Internet device, but as crappy a PIM as the IPhone.  I use categories extensively on my Treo, and they appear to be non-existent on the Pre.  And what the heck happened to being able to sync to a local copy of Outlook? Synching via wi-fi is nice, but I want to be able to sync to my laptop rather than to a server. Then there's the fact that you can't sync Tasks or Memos to anything!  I've got years' worth of memos that I keep synched between my Treo and Outlook, and I edit them freely in both places.  And they are categorized! I prefer to do a lot of my task entry on the laptop and sync it over to the Treo, an option that does not appear to be there for the Pre.  The Pre, at least, has tasks, which are still strangely missing from the IPhone even in version 3 (why add voice memos instead of a freakin' to-do list?), so it's still better than the IPhone in that respect. 

I'm not moving off of AT&T to Sprint anyway.  Maybe by the time the Pre comes out for other carriers they'll have it ready for real work.