I just picked up my new Palm Pre at the local Sprint store. You are probably now all thinking... "What! Barry got a Pre? What about his Apple love? What about his iPhone obsession?" Yea, I still love my Apple stuff, especially the iPhone. I got the Pre to be able to test building and porting our iPhone Apps to the Palm Pre platform. Yes, we will be building many of our iPhone Apps for the Pre. In fact, if you want information on that, go to rustybrick.com/pre and sign up for email notifications (or keep watching this blog).

In any event, I took a video using my iPhone 3GS, of me driving to the Sprint store in the local mall and walking into the store and then walking out of the store with the Pre. I thought using my iPhone to take the video, would be somewhat funny.

Here are some Palm Pre unboxing pictures:

Palm Pre Box

Palm Pre UnBoxing

Palm Pre UnBoxing

Palm Pre UnBoxing

Here are side by side shots of Palm Pre (on left) and iPhone 3GS (on right):

Palm Pre & iPhone Side by Side

Palm Pre & iPhone Side by Side

Honestly, my first impressions about the hardware is that it feels cheap. The keyboard feels like it might snap off, the phone itself feels like cheap plastic. But I know people love the phone, hardware and especially the software. So we hope to port our apps, by popularity, to the Palm Pre.

Again, for more about our work on Palm Pre apps, go to rustybrick.com/pre and sign up for email notifications (or keep watching this blog).