AnandTech has a comparison preview up. The Pre fares well against the iPhone, even beats in talk time, which is expected for a CDMA-based phone up against a GSM-based phone where both are running in 3G mode. It looks like the Pre also has truth in battery life times. The real comparison will be when a GSM/WCDMA Palm Pre comes out, but by then Palm should have made HW and OS refinements that will compensate for some of the network differences that give it a leg up right now.
It appears that it fares well (battery times are about a wash) against the current iPhone. If Apple's numbers are to believed, the iPhone 3GS will have significantly better battery life than the Pre. Since the new iPhone ships in 10 days, it seems unlikely that Palm will have any major optimizations ready to counter it.
Of course, "battery life", as measured under controlled conditions, isn't the same as perceived longevity in the field, because different phones get used different ways.
We've already seen how iPhone users tend to do a lot more with their phones and tend to chew through a battery charge; it remains to be seen if opening a bunch of apps on the Pre and leaving them open has a big impact on usable running time. Especially when Palm gets some third party apps out there, which might not be as carefully calibrated to go easy on the batts while in the background as the Pre's stock apps.
It appears that it fares well (battery times are about a wash) against the current iPhone. If Apple's numbers are to believed, the iPhone 3GS will have significantly better battery life than the Pre. Since the new iPhone ships in 10 days, it seems unlikely that Palm will have any major optimizations ready to counter it.
Of course, "battery life", as measured under controlled conditions, isn't the same as perceived longevity in the field, because different phones get used different ways.
We've already seen how iPhone users tend to do a lot more with their phones and tend to chew through a battery charge; it remains to be seen if opening a bunch of apps on the Pre and leaving them open has a big impact on usable running time. Especially when Palm gets some third party apps out there, which might not be as carefully calibrated to go easy on the batts while in the background as the Pre's stock apps.
We have to remember that were compared to different 3G technology types. The Pre on 3G still uses 2G CDMA for calls so we expect such a phone to last longer than a GSM-based phone on 3G which uses the 3G WCDMA radio for calls. The Pre will gain so time from having the 3G EVDO turned off. Hopefully Anand is thorough in his testing. Usually he seems to miss some aspects that I?d find important to test. Almost to the point that I want to do my own testing. Not quite, but almost.
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AnandTech has a comparison preview up. The Pre fares well against the iPhone, even beats in talk time, which is expected for a CDMA-based phone up against a GSM-based phone where both are running in 3G mode. It looks like the Pre also has truth in battery life times. The real comparison will be when a GSM/WCDMA Palm Pre comes out, but by then Palm should have made HW and OS refinements that will compensate for some of the network differences that give it a leg up right now.
It appears that it fares well (battery times are about a wash) against the current iPhone. If Apple's numbers are to believed, the iPhone 3GS will have significantly better battery life than the Pre. Since the new iPhone ships in 10 days, it seems unlikely that Palm will have any major optimizations ready to counter it.
Of course, "battery life", as measured under controlled conditions, isn't the same as perceived longevity in the field, because different phones get used different ways.
We've already seen how iPhone users tend to do a lot more with their phones and tend to chew through a battery charge; it remains to be seen if opening a bunch of apps on the Pre and leaving them open has a big impact on usable running time. Especially when Palm gets some third party apps out there, which might not be as carefully calibrated to go easy on the batts while in the background as the Pre's stock apps.
It appears that it fares well (battery times are about a wash) against the current iPhone. If Apple's numbers are to believed, the iPhone 3GS will have significantly better battery life than the Pre. Since the new iPhone ships in 10 days, it seems unlikely that Palm will have any major optimizations ready to counter it.
Of course, "battery life", as measured under controlled conditions, isn't the same as perceived longevity in the field, because different phones get used different ways.
We've already seen how iPhone users tend to do a lot more with their phones and tend to chew through a battery charge; it remains to be seen if opening a bunch of apps on the Pre and leaving them open has a big impact on usable running time. Especially when Palm gets some third party apps out there, which might not be as carefully calibrated to go easy on the batts while in the background as the Pre's stock apps.
We have to remember that were compared to different 3G technology types. The Pre on 3G still uses 2G CDMA for calls so we expect such a phone to last longer than a GSM-based phone on 3G which uses the 3G WCDMA radio for calls. The Pre will gain so time from having the 3G EVDO turned off. Hopefully Anand is thorough in his testing. Usually he seems to miss some aspects that I?d find important to test. Almost to the point that I want to do my own testing. Not quite, but almost.