Pondering Over The Palm Pre 2 Smartphone

Other issues that have been raised include the fact that the phone heats up pretty quickly and battery life is not as good as it could have been (two problems found on the iPnone 3GS as well).

Palm could also possibly step up production of the next generation Pre 2 (especially if Palm wants to reach the goal of one million handsets sold per month), include its wireless "pebble" charger and widen the range of territories where the smartphone will be available.

Furthermore, we already know that Palm's equivalent to the Apps Store, its App catalog, hit the one million downloads ceiling on Wednesday the 24th of June and is rising steadily despite the limited number of apps available then (30 in all, all of them free).

The success of the Pre 2 will also hinge on the popularity of Palm's online store. A more aggressive marketing campaign to seduce developers will hopefully increase the number of applications available for download.

Apple has a massive lead on Palm with 50,000 applications already instore but Palm just need to focus on churning out more (ed: there are around 50,000 applications available for Palm OS and Palm already has an emulator called "Classic" to run them).