I recently decided to use my 30-day return window with Sprint to return my Samsung Moment.  There are some good things about that phone but the negatives outweighed the positive for me.  I got the Palm Pre, which really was the phone that I went in to get originally...

I couldn't be happier with this phone.  So, I am going to provide my own unboxing and a quick review and some links...

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Mini Review

I am really enjoying using the phone.  The webOS is such a better phone OS than Android.  It feels like a cohesive experience unlike my time with the Samsung Moment.  The app catalog is still a bit underwhelming compared to the Android market and the Apple App Store (I have an iPod Touch, so I have many more apps for it...) but I hear that the apps are coming... but I did get the apps that I really wanted (sans a MySpace app but there is a such a thing as the website)...

I feel like this is the closest to an iPhone experience on a non-iPhone... but possibly even better...

Links...

Offical sites
<a href="http://now.sprint.com/palmpre/" target="_blank">Sprint's Pre Page</a>
<a href="http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/" target="_blank">Palm's Pre Page</a>

Reviews (keep in mind that these were for webOS 1.0, it's up to 1.3.1 now)
<a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/palm-pre-sprint/4505-6452_7-33490473.html" target="_blank">C|net</a>
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/palm-pre-review/" target="_blank">Engadget</a>

The webOS 1.3.1 update really had me wanting the Pre as it included Yahoo! integreation and I use Yahoo! main and Yahoo! IM and it is difficlut to get Yahoo! mail on a Google oriented device (any Android phone).   So, check out the updates to the webOS since these reviews for additional features and applications.  Also, the GPS works correctly with the Pre.  But it doesn't with the Moment, at least until there is an Android update which neither Sprint nor Samsung with commit to...