We don’t like the animosity in the mobile media. Really, we don’t.
But when Phone Scoop’s Eric Lin publicly made a foul-four-letter-word-strewn commentary about PhoneNews.com nabbing the first review of the Palm Pre, we realized animosity was alive and well in the mobile media.
And while it’s true, many don’t like our review style, it’s different… not phony. Other sites can claim they don’t like our review style, but that doesn’t give them the ethics to say they were first to a review of the final Palm Pre.
We don’t write reviews that take into account personal preferences. Hence, the title. That’s not to say we don’t like Walt Mossberg (we do actually), we just find we have a different audience. For example, on the keyboard, half the staff likes it, half the staff doesn’t. Same with many other keyboards on phones. So, we let you decide how you like it. After all, if the staff finds different takes on a device… that means there’s a diverse range of opinion on it.
These are expensive gadgets, and we’re not going to impose our opinions on subjective matters. Others are welcomed to do so, in their editorial styles.
It’s unfortunate that Boy Genius Report has chosen to lie about its claim to the first hand-on review of the final Palm Pre. It’s even more unfortunate that Apple-centric media, like MacNN (also known by its smaller news service, Electronista), and MacRumors have chosen to drink the kool-aid, and sanction Boy Genius Report’s claims.
To the media’s credit, most aren’t drinking the kool-aid. Others have given independent opinions that provide independent analysis (and, yes, we linked to one that didn’t like our review so much… just to be fair and balanced here).
Both MacNN and MacRumors are familiar with PhoneNews.com. They are of course held to the same standard… they may not like our review (or, like Phone Scoop, even dislike us), but that doesn’t give them the right to ignore our reporting.
For most though, the solution to this problem is simple. Park our RSS feed in your feed reader, and see for yourself. We’ve been in the mobile media, since there was a mobile media. We’re only growing from here.
P.S. We’ve posted plenty of photos of the Pre in the past (which loads PhoneNews.com without trouble, as we’ve shown in the past). Feel free to search the news.
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