After having been in the USA for well over 7 months I finally got a cellphone. For a few months I've been thinking hard on whether I wanted the iPhone or the brand new Palm Pre. After I made my decision to go for the Pre I figured let's write a blog on why I made that decision.

I spent ample time trying to decide between the iPhone and the Palm Pre, both very nice and capable phones. Let there be no doubt about that.

It's something new

While the iPhone is a very nice and capable device I must admit I've become a bit 'iPhone tired'. Sure, it has 35000 apps (of which 99,9% I'd probably never use) and it's a good phone overall. I've owned an iPod Touch however and I never managed to get REALLY excited about any of it. Strange if you think of it because I'm quite the Apple fan.

The Palm Pre got me excited at the first video I saw of it. I loved the fact that there was finally something new and cool that's no an iPhone. After the reviews started coming in varying from mostly positive to very enthousiastic my interest increased even more.

Easy app development

While I can't do it YET (I don't have the MOJO SDK for the Pre) I'm dying to get into WebOS application development. In sharp contrast to the iPhone I can actually use my skills to build applications. HTML, CSS and Javascript are what powers WebOS applications. I'm not a C programmer and I probably never will be. I am however quite capable at the latter which is why building Palm apps is in my immediate reach. If you read this, Palm, please send me a copy of the SDK already!