I actually own a pre, and I must say I am much more pleased with it than I am with my experiences with the iphone, mostly because of the sprint network instead of AT&T, but the pre is a fine phone in my opinion. It's not as snappy as the iphone in terms of loading and stuff like that, but it handles multiple applications so well. The texting being like a chat window is a very nice touch, the web browser is great on it, it can shoot video and take pictures with the 5 megapixel camera, and it has a lot of apps, not nearly as many as the iphone, but most of the important ones. The main reason i bought the palm pre though is because of the slide out keyboard, i absolutely cannot stand typing on a touch screen. All in all I really like the pre, the only thing that brought it down was the marketing, sprint failed on that. Much like arrested development, which was a great show and won oscars, but eventually died out due to lack of proper marketing.