Palm Pre Plus Review

Okay, so, I've had my Palm Pre Plus (Verizon) for a couple of weeks now. Overall, I LOVE the phone! My two biggest complaints are that the battery life isn't very good. Fortunately, I do charge my phone every night when I go to bed but if I spend a significant amount of time playing around with it, it does go through the battery quickly. My other big complaint... There's not an app that does turn by turn directions... at least not that I've found. You can pay for VZ Navigator but I'm not about to pay extra for that. My brother has the Droid (also on Verizon) and that comes with a program that does turn by turn voice directions. I wish my Palm Pre did that. It's got Google Maps so I can see where I'm at and I can get directions but I can't have the phone "guide" me with directions. I'd like it if I could. I like the touch screen and the keyboard doesn't give me any problems. I do love having the keyboard. The keys are a little small, I have small hands and usually use my nails to type, but it's not a big deal. The size of the phone is good and I like the size of the screen. It's not too small. It would be nice if the phone had a miniSD slot but the phone itself has 16GB of space so it's not like I really need a miniSD slot. The camera works well and I like the flash feature on it. I downloaded a Twitter app and a free TwitPhoto app, which I do like using. I was able to sync the Palm Desktop software with my phone when I initially set it up but I did have to download something onto my computer to do it and the phone isn't designed to backup to your computer like my Palm Pilot Zire 31 did. It would be nice if I could back it up like that. You can set up a Palm Profile (which you do on your phone and can't really access through a regular website) where your information is backed up to online so at least there's a backup of everything if something does happen to your phone but it would be nice if I could backup everything easily right to my computer. All in all, I really like this phone and I'd definitely recommend it.