7 days of Palm Pre and the best thing I can say is that I haven’t once turned my old iPhone 3G on. I’ve used my fiance’s iPhone 3GS once in that time and thought it a good phone, on par with the Palm Pre. The only way I’ll be going back to an iPhone is if the next generation iPhone is a major advancement. The Palm Pre and iPhone are good phones, good mobile web browsers and good mobile application platforms. Each has a few frustrating problems and each has its strengths but neither is a clear leader.

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LaTeX to WordPress. Something for my colleagues at the TSSG who regularly put proposal documents through a build process…

Helvetwitter for Twitter and Helvetimail for GMail from the Helvetireader for Google Reader. Awesome.

The Palm Pre is not as good a one-handed-device as the iPhone. The top-left menu is a sad throwback to Windows apps., the sliding mechanism puts the top area of the screen out of one-handed reach and the physical keyboard works best with two hands in the classic Blackberry, hunch-back, thumb-typing position.

Some worrying results in this science quiz. I’m not boasting when I say I answered all 12 questions correctly. It is embarrassing that 90% of people who took it got less than 100%. Only 65% correctly said that carbon dioxide is the gas that scientists believe warms the atmosphere. Only 47% know that LASERs are not focused sound waves. Incredibly only 46% agreed that electrons are “smaller” than atoms. An atom is composed of electrons and other particles. 54% of people don’t know that? Bloody hell.

All that map, street-view, traffic, business etc. data Google has been amassing just became useful in your car with an Android device. Going to be painful for Garmin and TomTom. They may be superior but Google’s take will be Good Enough for many, many people. And you can build on it any way you want.

$500 million, Apple’s ad budget, is an awful lot of money but it is a third of Microsoft’s and Dell spends $800 million.

Since my Palm Pre won’t sync with iTunes on my Mac I’ve had to find an alternative. You can drag and drop music files in USB mode which actually works pretty well. But it isn’t real synchronisation. Salling Media Sync does a good job. Free or you can pay for a version that speeds the sync up.

Sunday Business Post covers the Munster Express iPhone app. that my team at the TSSG put together. I don’t remember there being any technical glitches at launch though. It is a simple app. and worked fine from the start.