AT&T goes on the attack against Palm Pre with a leaked comparison document
Even though there is no official release date yet for the Palm Pre, AT&T is ready for them, and teaching their employees how to talk down the phone to customers.
An internal AT&T document was leaked to PreCentral.net that is a breakdown comparison between the Palm Pre and AT&T’s iPhone. Needless to say, considering the source is AT&T, the iPhone looks to be the clearly superior phone according to this document. In every aspect they compared between the two devices, the iPhone came out on top.
- The iPhone is thinner and lighter than the Palm Pre, and as PreCentral tells us, it’s lighter by a whole 2 grams.
- The document points out that the Palm Pre is supported by an unproven app store, and the iPhone has over 25,000 apps. Oddly it makes no mention of the fact that the iTunes app store is over two years old, but, still, they have more apps.
- It makes mention how the Palm Pre has limited free Wi-Fi access, but the iPhone can use any of the 17,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots. While 17,000 is a large number, isn’t it also technically “limited”?
While we certainly aren’t trying to say that the Palm Pre is superior to the iPhone as we haven’t had a chance to try one, this marketing flier from AT&T just seems a bit disingenuous and misleading in some of its claims. While there are some places where it is spot on with the truth, as in the fact the Pre does not have GSM support for world roaming, a lot of the arguments covered in it seem to be a matter of semantics.
It is doubtful this document really needed to be this harsh as people are going to buy these phones for very different reasons, but it does make you wonder just how concerned AT&T is by this new Sprint phone. You can see the document for yourself below, but it does seem a bit overstated in some of its claims.
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