Palm Pre UK Previews : Could Do (Much) Better

Only eight days before the Palm Pre is officially launch in the UK and suddenly, within a few hours, several UK Tech websites have released their reviews of the promising smartphone possibly because of some non-disclosure agreements; we shall never know though.

The Pre, as a reminder, was launched earlier this year and reaches the UK nearly 10 months after it was first demoed. It went on sale briefly in the UK, SIM free for £399 and can be purchased now for around £450.

Some have said that it is smarter than the iPhone and while we did say that the Palm Pre is better than the rest back in January, the iPhone 3GS came since and unfortunately for O2 - which has since lost the exclusivity - we don't believe that the Pre will replace Apple's smartphone.

Many of the reviews criticised the build quality of the Palm Pre. Esther Gauld of Geeks eloquently describes her reaction to the Pre's keyboard with a particular frame of reference, saying "think back to a time when the lights came on at the end of your teenage disco leading to the discovery that the person you’d been making eyes at was a little less perfect than the semi-darkness had suggested."