Palm Pre 2 Makes ZDNet’s Top 10

The Palm Pre 2 came in at #8

ZDNet have released their ‘Top 10 Smartphones to End 2010‘ – and the Palm Pre 2 is on it!

It may have been beaten by the iPhone 4, the Droid X and the Evo 4G, but the Pre 2 scored higher than both the Samsung Epic and the Motorola Droid 2. As it stands, the Palm Pre 2 is sitting pretty, coming in at a respectable 8th place. ZDNet had this to say about our eager new addition to the webOS family:

The Palm Pre and webOS were announced back at CES in January 2009 and we have had a couple iterations of the same form factor. The hardware has been rather poor quality so far while the webOS operating system is fantastic. The upcoming Palm Pre 2 looks to continue with the same form factor (3.1 inch display and slide-up portrait QWERTY keyboard), with a couple internal improvements. The Pre 2 has a 1 GHz processor and 5 megapixel camera with flash.

It remains to be seen whether or not Palm has worked out the quality issues with the keyboard and hardware, but I have to rank this new device in the top 10 because I think the webOS operating system may just be the best available today.

Applications are being released on a fairly regular basis too so I don’t think there is much worry about application support for the platform any longer. There is no price yet for the Palm Pre 2, but will launch on Verizon and will likely be at the $199.99 level too.

While we’re pleased to see the Pre 2 on the list, we don’t think everyone will be thrilled at its performance – hopefully 2011 will bring us more devices and webOS can creep a little closer to the #1 spot.

Update: At the end of the article there’s a Poll – head on over and tell ZDNet who you think should have had the #1 spot! (Thanks @ACarback)