The smartest phone I have owned

Blackberry 5720, Treo 700wx, Samsung Ace, Motorola Qc3, Samsung Instinct, HTC Touch, HTC 6700, HTC Touch Pro: These are all the smart phones I have owned (that I can remember). Some may be so bold as to call me obsessed with technology, instant gratification, or just a nerd. I prefer to think that I am simply driven to maintain an efficiency that resides on the razor sharp edge of technology!

My current mobile multitasking solution is the Palm Pre. Sometimes I make wild claims like “I invented pants”, or “Bigfoot resides in my tree house”, but believe me when I say that this device has changed my life. Now that I have firmly established myself as one who is sane, and an expert of mobile phones, let me tell you why.

The phone multitasks like no one’s business, has an amazing camera, has the fastest Internet on a phone available in America, syncs content wirelessly with google (or Outlook with a 3rd party app), has universal search, and a full physical QWERTY keyboard. There are some other really cool functions and developments of the phone, but you can check here for further information.

Specifically, for my day to day use, the instant email functionality has been nice. Since our small company doesn’t run an Exchange server for our e-mail service, we have always relied on IMAP and POP3 accounts. The blackberries could “push” the mail to the phone, but for a price. All the subsequent Windows Mobile devices I had could only “pull” emails via timed downloads to themselves. In both cases, however, the email on the phone was a duplication of the Outlook email client on my desktop computer.

The Pre offers real time syncing with Google, and after some fineageling Outlook as well. Well, I switched to google a long time ago (for my main email solution), so I have really been emailing more efficiently since I purchased this phone. Basically, if I send an email from the phone, or vice versa, it is in the sent folder on the computer and the phone. That is sweet.

The contacts, and calender sync wirelessly and instantly as well. What else should you expect?

The crisp 3.2 mega pixel camera has really been such a useful tool, that I can no longer function without it in my pocket at all times. Now that my jobsites are spread out further geographically, snapping pictures to disucss site conditions and workshop solutions has become significantly more important. Clients who live a great distance from their home in progress, or have very busy schedules can be updated with pictures as often as I am there taking them.

Boom goes the Dynamite!

This Picture was taken with the Pre, and is the finished product of the Concrete home that I promised.  Still, more to come, but I thought a little taste was in order.

Well done Palm Inc. You have pulled yourself out of the ashes, and made the first real competitor to the iPhone. Also, you have stream lined this mans day to day work and personal life. Applause is in order. By the way, my wife has an iPhone and I can officially say the Pre is better in every aspect that is important to me.