Sunday, November 08, 2009

Palm Pre短試


終於有機會試玩Palm Pre, 響Bell Store度玩左勁耐, 耐到佢個staff想趕我走 ^^"

對Palm Pre本來真係有好大期望, 想當年Palm都幾紅架, 都有好多人用Palm handheld. 不過後期比M$果D cheap PocketPC玩殘左, 佢地自己果D hardware同software又唔爭氣, 股價直下......今次Palm回歸, 請左勁多前Apple顧員, 要打做一部iPhone killer.

點之期望越大, 失望越高...... 先講硬件, 手感唔掂, 真機竟然感覺勁似dummy機. 個畫面又細, 本來3.2"唔可以真係好細, 但係佢個OS上面條menu bar做左黑色, 又做晒圓角咁, 俾人感覺個畫面得好似得返3"咁. 佢另外個賣點係有個有制嘅真keyboard, 不過真係嘥氣, 勁難禁, 同Blackberry冇得比, 係差好多果隻....... 到軟件, 個web browser同Google Maps都冇iPhone上果D禁好用. 成個OS冇果種簡單同user friendly嘅感覺. 佢另一個software主要賣點係multi-tasking, 將每個你開左嘅software做成card, 用之前我本來都覺得係個唔錯嘅idea, 用落之後我只係覺得ok, 唔足夠做到成為一個大賣點, 因為當你開到5-6個cards嘅時候, 部機已經開始感覺到慢, 仲要果D唔做話係好似3D game禁大食嘅apps. 唔係個個人都好有首尾話用完唔用個app會自己quit左佢架(but that's what multi-tasking is meant for?!?!). 仲有開左禁多apps會好食電架喎. 所以以暫時嚟講multi-tasking都仲唔可以吸引到我. 我相信總有一日有人會諗到比card更加好嘅idea, 仲有要等埋更省電嘅dual or mulit core嘅ARM CPU先至夠完美. 暫時個solution都唯有係靠push notification.

都係果句, 對Palm Pre好失望, 用左成team前Apple人, 有iPhone做抄集對像, 結果都係得D咁嘅野. 睇吓Palm個股價同Pre嘅零售價就知今次Pre有幾成功啦.....我最欣賞佢嘅就只係果舊Touchstone叉電..... 睇嚟要做到iPhone嘅level睇嚟都係要交俾Google Andriod 2.0. 唔怪之得tech界D人成日講, 今時今日當你提到新科技, 大家第一時間就只會諗起Google同Apple~