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.

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.

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.

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.

People will pay for live baseball streams. 350,000 of them. 10% on small-screens like the iPhone.

In-App purchasing for iPhone/iTouch apps is now available to free apps. Good move.

Didn’t know iPhone’s had FM hardware in them. Apple radio app with “click to purchase” functionality rumours.

Layar augmented reality browser for the iPhone 3GS (compass needed) is in the App Store now. Works quite well even for a low-density area like Waterford, Ireland.

Three good new iPhone apps today; classic adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky, email intelligence Gist and Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals.