anyone else hate video reviews ?

It's like "I can't be bothered writing this down and taking pics and uploading them, so I'll just video me talking drivel and post it on youtube... much easier"

Regardless of whether or not you like video reviews, this is the best one of the Pre that I have seen. The Palm rep knows what he's talking about, mentions the tech specs and capabilities of the device as though he actually understands what he's saying, rather than just regurgitating some memorised numbers, and he seems genuinely enthused about the device.

The image quality of the video is also very good, I was able to clearly see see the finer points of the UI interactions and was able to get a reasonably good idea of how responsive the UI was, which are two things that can not be communicated to me in a written/photographic review, yet are extremely important to me in determining the quality of a device.

What about the unanswered questions?

Is it triband gsm + 3G ? Or is it bound to some minority, USA-only, carrier? wont work in europe?

can you sync the address book to anything other than Outlook?

Will they sell it unlocked and sim-free?

WIll they sell it in the UK at all?

Can you both connect and charge with a mini-usb connector?

does it have a 3.5mm headphone jack

How much free storage does it have?

Can you plug in storage cards without dismantling it?

Will you be able to run TomTom on it, or does the GPS depend on an always-on data connection?

Will I have to sell the kids to buy one?

It looks like exactly what I want, an advanced phone without windows mobile. I just hope it is ready for the market.

Boom... another mundane feature that we have seen elsewhere.

Anyway nice to see Palm abandoning that horrid window mobile system.

What I would really have liked to see is how legacy PalmOS 4 and PalmOS 5 applications do run. Is there an, emulator? Are all apps compatible? What about the performance?

For me one of the main selling point of a palm device is to be able to transfer not only data but also legacy applications and games when you buy a new device, so backward compatibility is really a critical feature that should get more coverage than it is receiving now!