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There’s a good chance that even if you’re not into tech all that much, you’ve heard of the Motorola DROID thanks to Verizon’s big marketing push, and that’s a good and bad thing. The Palm Pre smartphone, along with the company’s much-anticipated webOS operating system, has had quite the buzz building up since its splashy launch in January. While the Pre isn’t perfect, it definitely does not disappoint.

Here is a detailed comparison of Motorola Droid and Palrm pre and will help you decide which one is the best.

1. Design:

• Motorola Droid : It the functionalist, industrial ruggedness, expressed perfectly through glass and metal and unapologetic angles, in a powerful phone that’s remarkably streamlined. It measures 115.8 mm in length and 60 mm in width.
• Palm Pre : The Palm Pre’s design is unlike that of any smartphone we’ve seen to date, but if we had to give a point of comparison, we’d say it somewhat resembles the HTC Touch. It’s a bit like a pebble, with its smooth, black, lacquered finish and rounded edges, and, like the iPhone, Palm keeps it simple by keeping external controls to a minimum.

2. Display

• Motorola Droid: Droid’s 3.7-inch, 854×480 display with an eye-popping pixel density of 267ppi. It’s the clarity of the text that captivates.
• Palm Pre : The 24-bit color HVGA display is vibrant and sharp with its 320×480-pixel resolution. Images, text, and Web pages all looked amazing.We have to say the Pre’s display is one of the main highlights of the phone. It measures 3.1 inches diagonally, so it’s smaller than the iPhone’s and some other touch-screen devices

3. Touchscreen

• Motorola Droid: Touch response is mostly effective. When there are misfires, like getting no response when you flick your finger to pull out the app menu, it’s hard to tell if it’s the phone or the software—at least until more Android 2.0 phones are out there. However, no serious complaints.
• Palm Pre : The capacitive (meaning it responds to the touch of a finger) touch screen is pretty responsive. There’s no haptic feedback, but white rings will appear around an icon or menu item to let you know that the screen has registered your touch. To scroll through lists, you can drag your finger along the screen or give it a quick flick to get through longer lists.

4. Keyboard

• Motorola Droid: The QWERTY keyboard is okay but the key landscape is too flat and homogenous—a necessary sacrifice for Droid’s remarkable skinniness.
• Palm Pre : The lack of a physical keyboard was a big reason why some people chose not to buy the iPhone. There will be those who argue that the iPhone’s onscreen keyboard is fine and just needs some getting used to, which is fair enough.

5. Operating System

• Motorola Droid: Droid is a champion of possibilities for Motorola as well as Verizon. You can kind of think of it like a Super G1, laying out what it means to be an Android 2.0 phone, with powerful new processors and delicious new displays with sky-high resolutions.
• Palm Pre : The Web OS is really where the Pre shines, and manages to create a coherent internet-based platform that’s even more “connected” than Google Android.Based on its ease-of-use and in particular the way multitasking and notifications are handled, Palm’s webOS has the best User Interface of all current mobile operating systems. WebOS uses for multitasking. Otherwise, the Pre borrows many of the UI ideas that we first saw on the iPhone

6. Camera

• Motorola Droid: The camera is complete garbage. It takes 10 years to start up, 2 to focus, and another 4 to actually take the goddamn picture. And there’s no distinct visual feedback to let you know a photo’s been snapped. And the photos suck.
• Palm Pre : It’s a 3-megapixel camera, but when it comes to actually taking pictures, it isn’t any better than the G2 or the iPhone. Like most cheap-o cameras, photos are fine with ample sunlight, but in low-light conditions pictures become grainy—even when using the “flash” on the back, it’s only barely tolerable.

7. Multimedia

• Motorola Droid: There aren’t any major enhancements to the built in media player in terms of interface or functionality, which is not acceptable. The player does support MP3, AAC, AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI, and Windows Media Audio 9 formats and the player includes shuffle, repeat, and playlist creation. Unfortunately, there is no syncing software to help you manage and transfer your music. As it is right now, you have to use the old drag-and-drop method using the USB cable or sideload them using a microSD card.
• Palm Pre: The Palm Pre has got a solid set of multimedia features. The built-in media player supports a number of formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, and AMR music files and MPEG-4, H263, and H264 video formats. The music player offers basic functions: play/pause, track forward/back, and shuffle and repeat modes.

8. Memory

• Motorola Droid: It has microSD card slot supporting upto 32 GB capacity and an 8GB card is included with the device.
• Palm Pre : Pre does not feature an external memory slot which has been a design decision driven by the fact that it includes enough internal memory to satisfy the user. The handset comes with 8GB of internal memory storage, which can be used right out of the box, and it is considered to be a greater advantage than external memory.

9. Connectivity

• Motorola Droid: It has a quad band GSM connectivity and dual band 3G connectivity. There is also common GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and USB connectivity but without infrared, HSCSD or FM Radio.
• Palm Pre : The Palm Pre is outfitted with all the wireless options you could need. It works on Sprint’s EV-DO Rev. A network, which promises average download speeds of 600Kbps to 1.4Mbps and peak rates of up to 3.1 Mbps, and average upload speeds of 350 to 500 Kbps, peaking at 1.8 Mbps.

10. Battery Life

• Motorola Droid: With moderate to heavy usage that includes browsing, some navigation, push Gmail, moderate app usage, with the occasional app running in the background—it managed to make through a full 8-12 hour day before recharging, each day for about a week, though some days were closer than others.
• Palm Pre: Battery life is an issue and probably one of our biggest concerns. The Pre comes with a user-removable 1150mAh lithium ion battery with a rated talk time of 5 hours and up to 12 days of standby time. In lab tests the Pre delivered 5.25 hours of talk time. For multimedia, the smartphone offered 12.4 hours of continuous music playback in airplane mode with 3G turned off and 6.72 hours of video playback under the same conditions. With 3G turned on, the results were 10.5 hours for music and 4.7 hours for video

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