Four full days with a Palm Pre review loaner.  First was pick up and get to know you Friday.  Then came mess around with it all weekend Saturday and Sunday.  And then the first stress test: Use it all day while covering a press event Monday.

So what have I learned in my time with Palm and Sprint's new flagship smartphone?  I'll break it into three categories.  And maybe Aaron, Becca, and/or Tom (all of whom are playing with Pres of their own right now) will chime in with some points and counterpoints of their own.

The Good:
优点：

    * WebOS is insanely pleasant to look at.  Everything is colorful, rounded, smooth, and easy.  Doing stuff on Pre is kind of like slowly eating a steady stream of cotton candy.
      WebOS非常好看，所有东西都色彩丰富、圆润平滑易用。操作Pre就像怎么品也品不够的棉花糖。

    * Multitouch on Pre's display is at least as good as multitouch on any other mobile device I've tried.  Maybe just a hair better, even.
      多点触摸最少和我试过的其它设备 一样好，还可能好上一丝儿。

    * The device is small and light, and yet the display feels big and bold when I'm immersed in using it.
      设备小巧轻便，沉迷其中使反而感觉屏幕大了。

    * Multitasking on Pre is as good as advertised, relative of course to the limits of the hardware and software.  Flipping back and forth between IMs and SMSs, Twitter feeds, and Email is easier on this device than on any other I've tried.  The psychic dangers of being so hyper-connected aside, WebOS does multitasking in the most consumer-friendly of ways.
      多任务跟广告承诺的一样好，只受限于软硬件。切换任务比任何其它设备都容易。像是会读心术，WebOS的多任务做到了最用户友好的方式。

    * WebOS version 1.0 gives me a lot of hope for versions 1.1, 1.5, 2.0, and so on.  1.0 reminds me of Android 1.0, except way better.  Android 1.5 has me excited about the platform now, so I can only imagine how WebOS 1.5 will one day make me feel.  Squishy and warm on the inside, I bet.
      WebOS 1.0让我对其后版本充满希望。Webos 1.0就像Android的1.0（除了更好），Android 1.5就让我对这个平台充满了兴奋，我敢打赌，WebOS 1.5以后会让我热血沸腾。

    * Voice and data quality have been excellent thus far in my tests around the San Francisco Bay Area of California.  Voice calls on Pre sound great, and I've had strong EV-DO signal strength most everywhere I've taken the device. I got a Roaming indicator once while on the BART train, but it only lasted a few seconds.  Data has been nice and fast, too.  And WiFi works just fine.
      截至目前在旧金山附近我测试的结果，语音和数据质量优秀。打电话声音很棒，我所到之处的EV-DO信号都很强。只有一次坐城铁时有几秒的漫游指示。数据业务也是迅速稳定，WiFI也很好。

    * Sprint's all-in voice and data plan offers great value as compared to AT&T and Verizon.
      Sprint的语音数据套餐性价比比AT$T和Verizon的高。
    * Flicking and gesturing through WebOS' cards is fun.  For now, anyway.  It might get old after a few months of daily use.  But I'm living in the Now, like Sprint's ads tell me to, and so I'll say it's still fun.
      现在把玩切换WebOS卡片很有趣，也许几个月后会失去兴趣，不过我活在现在，就像Sprint广告说的，我还是乐在其中。

The Bad:
缺点

    * Pre's Web browser is solid but needs some work to compete with the big boys.  Text has a tendency to render out all squished up sometimes.  Where's the RSS feed reader?   Why can't I download and view mobile-formatted Web videos like I can on that other multitouch smartphone?  (Pre lets me start the process, and then gives me a file unsupported error in the video player)  Why can't I enter text into Web forms in landscape mode?  Why must I slide open the keyboard and rotate back to portrait mode to log into a site that I'd rather continue to browse in landscape mode?
      Pre的浏览器不错，但是要跟对手抗衡需要更加努力。短信功能有要崩溃的趋势。RSS软件在哪？为什么不能像其它智能机那样下载移动格式的视频？（开始处理后会在视频播放器中给出文件不支持的错误）。为何无法在横屏模式中无法在网络表格中输入文字？为什么在我喜欢继续用一直用横屏浏览网络的时候要划开键盘换回竖屏来登入网站？

    * Pre's autocomplete dictionary is small compared to those of its competitors, and there's not much in the way of feedback when it kicks into action.  Mis-type a word?  Pre will either correct it or it won't, but you won't see any sort of pop-up or underline to highlight the mistake.  Not a deal-breaker since there's a hardware keyboard and all, but I much prefer Android 1.5's autocomplete/correct system with its easily extendable dictionary.
      Pre的自动完成词典跟竞争者想比太小，实际应用中反馈也太少。打错词了？不管Pre会不会纠正，你也不会看到任何形式的对错误的弹出、下划线或高亮。在有物理键盘的情况下这还不至于让人放弃购买，不管我更喜欢Android 1.5的自动完成/纠正系统，和它可扩充的词典。

    * You can't use cellular data while also conducting a voice call.  That's not Pre's fault - it's a CDMA thing.  But still.  You can, however, use WiFi data while on a call, so that's something, anyway.
      打电话时无法使用手机网络的数据业务。这不是Pre的错，是CDMA制式的。不过你还可以用WiFi。不管咋地，有这么一回事。

    * The music and video players are kind of barebones.  Pre's music player looks cool, but it lacks an equalizer, the time elapsed progress bar is in a non-obvious place, and the Amazon MP3 shopping experience is lacking in the finer details that have made that other online music store such a juggernaut.  Don't get me wrong, you can preview, purchase, download, and listen to music on Pre just fine.  The experience just needs some fine tuning and finishing touches to be competitive in the current marketplace.
      音视频播放器是半成品，Pre的音乐播放器看起来酷毙，不过没有均衡器，时间条位置不明显，Amazon MP3购物体验不是很好，让其它在线商店看起来就像上帝。别理解错，你可以预览、购买、下载、欣赏，都没问题。但以这体验在目前的市场情况下还需要更多的调整。

    * There aren't many Apps in the App Catalog.  That will change, and in and of itself doesn't matter so much.  Except that Pre's competitors, like Android and iPhone OS, have lots of apps available in their app stores.  And Pre doesn't ship with, say, a twitter app.  So I had to download one, and it doesn't support TwitPic uploading.  But that will change.
       软件商店软件还不多，但会有的，所以这没啥重要的。除了Pre的对手，像Android和iPhone已经有了很多很多程序。Pre没有内置twitter。我不得不自己下一个，而且现在还不支持图片上传，不过也会有的。

    * The keyboard is small and the buttons are grippy in a weird way.  I've talked to a bunch of Pre owners about this, and they seem to be split on the topic: Some care, some don't.  Everyone - me included - thinks the keyboard is useable.  But it's no BlackBerry or HTC QWERTY, that's for sure.
       键盘小，按键奇怪的紧，我跟一打Pre用户聊了这个，虽然他们有些人在意，有些人不的。但每个人－包括我，都认为这键盘算是能用，但肯定不如黑莓和HTC的QWERTY键盘。

    * My Pre crashed super hard while charging over the weekend.  I had to pull the battery to reboot it.  The bright side is that the battery was fully charged once the phone restarted.
      我的Pre竟然在周末充电时崩溃了，我不得不拔电池重启。不过好的一面是手机重启后发现电池还是充满了。


The Ugly
难以忍受

    * Battery life is bad.  Really bad.  I put my fully charged Pre into action at a little before 8 am today.  At 2:09 PM the battery had run out and the device shut itself down.  That's not okay.  Yeah, I used the phone fairly heavily today - Email, twitter, SMS/IM, and a little bit of background music and Web browsing - but I was not hammering on it relentlessly in hopes of killing the battery.  In fact, the phone sat totally dormant for just over two straight hours while I covered my press event.  Six hours of battery life under "normal hyper-connected usage" is not okay for a device meant to be hyper-connected.  Maybe it just had a bad day?  We'll see tomorrow.
     电池时间糟蹋，太糟糕。我上午八点之前一点开始使用充满电的Pre。下午2：09电池就用光自动关机了。这可不行。好吧，我今天用得狠了点－电邮－twitter,短信/IM,还有后台放了一些音乐和网络浏览，但我并非有意要无情的耗费电池。实际上。这电话在我处理业务时还有两个小时啥事儿也没干。六个小时“正常保持通讯强度”的电池时间对以“保持通讯”为目标的设备来说可无法接受。也许今天只是运气不好？明天再看看。

    * The build quality of my Pre is suspect.  I've argued with a few folks about this via Twitter, and they swear I'm nuts.  Fine.  But my Pre has too much wobble in its slider mechanism - most noticeable when the phone is closed - and the keyboard tray feels cheap to me.  I also find the device hard to hold when its slid open - the top edges of the keyboard area are sharp and dig into my hands and fingers.  Maybe I'm a sissy, but I've never accused another phone of having too sharp an edge for my comfort.
      我这台Pre的做工值得怀疑，我跟一干人在Twitter上争论了半天，他们都说我疯子。我忍了。但我的这台Pre的滑道很松－在电话合上时更明显-键盘对我来说太廉价了。我还发现这手机划开时很难手持－键盘上缘锋利得像要切入我的手掌手指。也许我太娇气，但是我此前没有指责过其它任何一台手机边缘锋利得不舒服。

    * Want to plug Pre into your computer via USB to sync some media?  Don't expect to receive any calls or messages while its in sync mode.  Seriously?  Really?  Not okay.
      想用Pre通过USB联上电脑同步一些文件？别指望在同步模式能能接电话或信息。真的假的？这可不行。

    * That Touchstone wireless charger?  It's slow and it's way overpriced.  Cool idea, though.
      Touchstone无线充电器咋样？点子不错，不过又贵又慢。

[ 本帖最后由 burnfox 于 2009-6-10 21:15 编辑 ]

嗲啊，别无所求了

电池真的这么糟糕？本来G1我就是因为电池放弃的，现在看来之前信誓旦旦必买的pre现在也有点动摇了……

再渣也就跟挨劈一德行，但，能换

iPhone单一电池的能力仅次于Storm，跟之前那些比都强飞了。

要是一块电池Pre干不过iPhone，岂不是证明了苹果的后台运行费电理论并非妄言？ 连待机出名的RIM出的Storm，真玩起来时间也就那样。

引用:

原帖由 burnfox 于 2009-6-10 22:26 发表
iPhone单一电池的能力仅次于Storm，跟之前那些比都强飞了。

要是一块电池Pre干不过iPhone，岂不是证明了苹果的后台运行费电理论并非妄言？ 连待机出名的RIM出的Storm，真玩起来时间也就那样。

关于电池请看此贴，我想比你发的要更具说服性

http://forums.precentral.net/pal ... ttery-life-now.html

说服性以哪个为准呢？那里也不是一口同声的说时间长，抱怨时间短的大有人，还有四个小时的。你统计过到底长的多还是短的多

引用:

原帖由 burnfox 于 2009-6-10 22:46 发表
说服性以哪个为准呢？那里也不是一口同声的说时间长，抱怨时间短的大有人，还有四个小时的。你统计过到底长的多还是短的多

你的用意我很清楚。
电池寿命如何大家自己看帖子，我又没说是长还是短

你愿意帮忙统计那最好，谢谢。

我没用意，原文怎么写的就怎么翻译的，敢问你什么用意？


IPhone 3G Battery Life Bad, Still Better Than Other 3G Smartphones


http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/07/iphone-3g-batte/

The iPhone 3G might have a rather poor battery life compared to its predecessor, but according to tests by PC World, it still comes out ahead of other 3G smartphones. It even beats phones on Sprint and Verizon’s EVDO networks, which should be less power hungry as they only use the 3G network for data, not voice and data like HSDPA/UMTS.

If the Samsung Instinct and the iPhone were at high school, they would be the two cool kids wearing leather jackets and gunning their jalopies towards each other on an old dirt road, waiting for each other to blink. And so it is in the talktime test you see above. The Instinct was the only phone other than the iPhone to break the fiver hour barrier, coming in at just five minutes behind the iPhone.

All the other phones stood at the sidelines cheering these two on, and — to further strain the metaphor — the Palm Treo was the nagging, bobby-soxed girlfriend in the passenger seat, telling our hero to “Stop, it’s just not worth it. You have nothing to prove to me.”

Well, no, Treo, iPhone has nothing to prove to you, with your pathetic three hours and fifty three seconds of talktime. You’ll be lucky if he even invites you to the prom.

[ 本帖最后由 burnfox 于 2009-6-10 22:57 编辑 ]

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