We got our Palm Pres from Sprint a few months ago now. On their own, solid interface on toy-quality hardware.
However, before using Sprint I had been using a prepay iPhone (1st gen). I gave it up because AT&T here has horrible reception, and the deposit to get us on a family plan was rediculous.
After dabbling in WebOS on the pre, I wanted to see how the iPod Touch/iPhone OS held up, and borrowed an iPod Touch.
The schtick of WebOS is supposed to be multitasking, followed by Synergy. The problem is that all too often the pre gets so bogged down that even critical functions (phone calls, for example) become unusable. The iPod on the other hand has a few tasks which always run with priority, and all the other programs run one at a time. The startup of most programs, and the state saving built into most, makes switching programs usually feel like they never quit.
Synergy is, for now, the saving grace of webos. Enter google, facebook, exchange, and now yahoo accounts, and your contacts, calendars, email and chat are woven together like a single continuum. All this happens without changing the accounts or using a desktop computer, works well, and has a decent interface. Apple could learn a lot from that, and if I were Steve, looking at what to do with my big pile of cash, I would buy palm to get the intellectual properties of Synergy and improve the iPhone with it.
No matter how good Synergy is... The hardware and software quality of the Apple products blows the palm out of the water... And if Apple brought the iPhone to Sprint I'd toss the Pre in a heartbeat.
