palm pre review: it stinks

So the palm pre is a horrible phone.  It has many bugs and on it's best day it's quite slow.  Budget a full 30s to look up a telephone number.  Typically on this phone, as I understand it, the phone and messaging applications run in the background.  This lets the phone notify you when you receive a text or phone call.  Mine seemed to shut down these apps, and I therefore missed some important notifications today and rather messed up my schedule.  I don't need to look at my messages every 5 minutes, but once every 12 hours would be helpful.  I have many other complaints against the pre.  One of the most damning is that sometimes the slider causes the battery to lose contact with the rest of the phone in a way that the phone ends up turning off.  It then takes a good 3 minutes for the phone to reboot.  Hope you weren't using that slider to dial 911.  What a turd.