In general, I have to say that the Palm Pre lives up to the hype. As was noted in most of the reviews, the battery life is the one real weakness, but it is certainly not ‘bad’.

Here are some quick thoughts and notable features:

• The interface is great and overall the phone is very stable. I have only rebooted once, after installing a firmware upgrade. You can easily run 5 or 6 applications and switch between them without issue.
• The built in camera and flash are much better than what is typical, especially when there is a lot of available light.
• To me, the hardware feels solid and not cheap, like some have noted.
• The keyboard is small, but I have found it works surprisingly well.
• A nice feature, for those that hate spending money on ringtones (which I refuse to do); you can assign any audio file (mp3, AAC, etc) as a ringtone. With the amount of money being made off of ringtones, I was surprised that Sprint allowed them to incorporate this feature…
• Other features which people may be interested in:
  
  • Supports push e-mail with GMAIL.
  • Synergy: the unification of contacts and calenders from multiple sources works well and can easily be tweaked by the end user. Unfortunately, although the phone supports Google Calender, it doesn’t yet support tasks (I hope this will be added in a future update).
  • AIM + Google talk (IM) both work well, although they do drain the battery (hopefully a firmware upgrade will improve the performance).
  • Includes unified system wide search (contacts, applications, appointments, Google, Twitter, Google Maps, Wikipedia).
  • The Pre can be mounted as standard USB mass storage device, so that you can quickly transfer PDF, Word, Excell, pictures, etc.  I experienced no problems with Windows XP or OS X.
  • It syncs with iTunes (only non-DRM files) and does so without any issues.
  • The built in PDF and document viewers work.

That is all for now… …so far so good!