Palm Pre – come back when you can get column inches

I should state up front that I like Apples and the iPhone, yet hate Apple users. With a passion. And I’m not alone, do read the comments – I particularly like that Apples have a “write book” function, apparently.

Anyway, the Pre has just launched and there have been reports that the Apple iPhone is finally in for a fight.And I do hope so. Because of my hatred of the users I desperately wanted this, and past flops such as the BlackBerry Storm, etc. to be good so I could have an alternative.

So… In several reports leading up to the launch the Pre had been dubbed “the iPhone killer”.

The BBC did a round up of US reviews entitled “Palm Pre can challenge iPhone”. The New York Times cited the Pre as:

“The Pre, which goes on sale Saturday, is an elegant, joyous, multitouch smartphone; it’s the iPhone remixed.”

And the Wall Street Journal stating, after a 2 week review period:

“I consider the Pre to be potentially the strongest rival to the iPhone to date”

But, looking at media coverage in general, the numbers don’t give much hope for the Pre. Instead, journalists and bloggers simply aren’t writing about it (well, as much as the iPhone) and, depite a slow rise in coverage over the past month it is not making a dint into the iPhone’s column inches.

This is best seen on Silobreaker – here. Sadly you cannot embed the graph.

iPhone killer? I doubt it. Good enough to tempt iPhone refuseniks? Here’s hoping.