Palm Pre Smartphone

[TheComputerGuy]

I currently have a Samsung Instinct. I will be upgrading to the Pre soon.
I have been with Sprint since 03. I have a great cell phone rate, so I will be picking one up to hopefully enjoy things the Instinct dropped the ball on.

I'm excited about the battery information.

[Floris]

That is a lot better than what I read and hear. That's good.

[Cole2026]

Does anybody think the pre battery life will be improved? The things I read in all these articles is that they are quite positive about certain things that the other smartphones do not have, and even do better. But they are kind of all complaining that the battery doesn't even make it through a day.

Well, as far as today goes, I have been running my Pre all day for nearly twelve hours now, and I am at about 34% battery. This is with moderate usage of the browser, applications, and the phone throughout the day.

The only thing I have heard is that some company is coming out with a 1350 mAH battery next week for the Pre.

[Floris]

Does anybody think the pre battery life will be improved? The things I read in all these articles is that they are quite positive about certain things that the other smartphones do not have, and even do better. But they are kind of all complaining that the battery doesn't even make it through a day.

[Vile]

I picked up a Pre on Saturday. It is quite a cool device with a lot of potential....

Awesome. This is probably the most thought out, insightful post in this thread. (*cough, Mr. offtopic Floris* )
Thanks for the info. I'll do some playing around with it as well, but will probably wait for ATT/Verizon to get it since I'll most likely be sticking to ATT or switching to Verizon, as both have pretty good service in my area.

[Floris]

Obviously the pun of the post was too much for you Dean, that's ok

[Cromulent]

Seconded. Why do you mac users feel the need to go on this crusade to convert users to your OS?

Mac users are nothing compared to Linux users .

[Dean C]

Seconded. Why do you mac users feel the need to go on this crusade to convert users to your OS. I don't like it, it's not for me. Just like XP is not for you. I don't spend hours sync'ing my devices, I use exchange which does it all for me. I don't own a Zune, but who does?

[Mr. Mikey]

*wakes up* 9 am, gmt +2

IT IS MONDAY

Windows users, please go to work and spend hours syncing your mobile devices to get to your spreadsheets. While listening to your Zune and squirt songs to your other Zune customer.

TODAY IS FANBOY DAY, in other words: Convert, or GTFO

*puts on his steve jobs tshirt and boots all his... nm, they are of course already booted up, since like.. FOREEEEVER*


# starts the music #


Woops, sorry .. didn't mean to take over the thread For some weird reason I always get excited for a keynote presentation that's not a sweaty guy shouting developers developers developers hehe. Continue as you were.

[hitmancode47]

Palm Pre Smartphone

Lol, judging by the threads title, i almost reported the message as spam thought it was one lol.

Sorry

[Floris]

*wakes up* 9 am, gmt +2

IT IS MONDAY

Windows users, please go to work and spend hours syncing your mobile devices to get to your spreadsheets. While listening to your Zune and squirt songs to your other Zune customer.

TODAY IS FANBOY DAY, in other words: Convert, or GTFO

*puts on his steve jobs tshirt and boots all his... nm, they are of course already booted up, since like.. FOREEEEVER*


# starts the music #


Woops, sorry .. didn't mean to take over the thread For some weird reason I always get excited for a keynote presentation that's not a sweaty guy shouting developers developers developers hehe. Continue as you were.

[Cole2026]

I picked up a Pre on Saturday. It is quite a cool device with a lot of potential. The device is well built and sturdy (and small enough to comfortably fit in my pocket; the iPhone was a bit chunky). WebOS is responsive as well as great looking. The touch screen controls are very intuitive and well thought out.

As far as applications go, the app store does not have much in it right now (just a dozen or so applications I would say), but that is because of Palm's reluctance to release the Mojo SDK to the public. Some of the applications are quite useful (Fandango, Pandora, applications similar to UrbanSpoon, etc)--while others are sort of broken or a waste.

The device itself focuses on the concept of cloud computing, which is what webOS is built upon (Mojo SDK allows you to use html, css, and javascript/ajax to build applications, so this is no surprise). It took just a few clicks to sync my facebook and gmail accounts using synergy. However, the OS needs to be updated to allow for syncing from Outlook or a computer based medium--as this is critical for many business users.

Disappointments include the well documented 8gb of storage with no upgrade slots. The battery life has also been a cause for concern in reviews, but so far so good on that front (for the most part). Synergy, although brilliant, has a couple funky problems, including that when I synced my facebook account, it moved every one of my facebook friends into my contacts. This would be fine, but it moved everyone with a birthday listed (not a phone number, per se), which is sort of annoying.

Overall a great phone. If Sprint has good service in your area, it is a good buy. I am looking forward to the SDK release so I can start playing around with it (and hopefully others will start releasing applications too).

[rrudeboy]

sticking with my BB Storm...

[pank]

We'll see tomorrow when the new iPhone is announced if the pre may indeed be some serious competition.

I have a feeling the new iPhone's will please many of us

[Floris]

Yeah, I am very happy that we're seeing competition.