* UPDATE It looks like Storm users running OS 4.7.0.151 are having problems with this theme. If you are having some trouble with it please leave a comment with details. I’ve already let the developer know. *

A few days ago I tweeted a photo via TweetPhoto as a preview of an upcoming, free Palm Pre-styled BlackBerry theme. Well, my buddy @Maxx730 has released this theme as Pre-Berry!

This theme is currently available for the BlackBerry Storm series, but Max let me know he plans on making it available for other models soon.

This theme is inspired by the UI to the new smart phone that just came out called the Palm Pre. The thing I like most about this new phone is that its OS is a Linux based OS which is the best OS for anything. I tried to make the main screen look close to the “card” scheme that the Palm Pre is using, you can see at the top of the wallpaper there is a sort of shine to make it look like a card. The icons are not made by me but I ran across them at http://www.jamesmeister.com/icons.php and fell in love with them.

Max also has a bunch premium themes which can be found in the store that are very affordable.

• Download Pre-Berry: OTA
• Info: Maxx730Designs.com
• How To: Install applications and themes via OTA with or without using data

Al Sacco put together a great editorial for CrackBerry where he goes over his top 8 reasons why the Palm Pre’s “got nothin’ on BlackBerry.” Very good read .

Here are his 8 reasons:

• 8 ) Pre, First webOS Device, Could Be Flash in the Pan
• 7 ) Sprint Owns Pre Users Until AT LEAST 2010
• 6 ) Pre as an Enterprise Device? Not So Fast…
• 5 ) No Expandable Memory/Memory Card Support for Pre!!
• 4 ) The Pre’s Not Built to Last-But It Did Cut the Cheese
• 3 ) There’s Only One Pre… For Better or for Worse
• 2 ) The Palm Pre’s App Catalogue Is Weak Like Your Little Cousin
• 1 ) Pre’s Keyboard Is for Pixies and Lilliputians

The Pre is here; Palm recently released the much-anticipated Pre smartphone to the world-and the fate of the company very much depends on whether or not the device is a hit. Palm, former king of the PDA market, is attempting to pull itself back to the forefront of the smartphone game with the likes of RIM and Apple, and the Pre will no doubt be instrumental to its success…or lack thereof.

A while back, I penned a piece for CrackBerry called “Top 10 Reasons Why the iPhone Is NO BlackBerry,” in which I pointed out why Apple’s iPhone might be fine for your kid brother or all the Mac-heads at school or work, even your mom, but it doesn’t hold a candle to BlackBerry when the two are stacked up next to each other (I’ll be weighing in on the state of this ongoing debate soon now that the iPhone 3G S has been announced).

While the Pre is certainly exciting and I look forward to some quality thumbs-on time with it, I didn’t rush out to pick one up this week, nor will I be trading in my beloved ‘Berry for a Palm device anytime soon; the Palm Pre’s simply no BlackBerry.

Read more @ CrackBerry

The popular shock-jock Howard Stern has decided to go with the BlackBerry Bold over the Palm Pre!

Since Stern has been a long time Palm user (up till now owning a Treo), Palm decided to give him a Pre to play with and see how he’d like it. Palm was expecting Stern to like the Pre, but after the trial he decided to go with the BlackBerry Bold.

Why you ask? For Stern it was one important detail: the Palm’s inability to connect to Lotus Notes.

BlackBerry 1 – Palm 0

Not sure who Howard Stern is? Check out howardstern.com

Source: ZDNet via IntoMobile