Well said, Don. I, too, am immensely frustrated by the unusably bad (IMO) calendar interface on the Pre. Before, on my Treo, I *never* managed my schedule on a PC...always on the Treo...as it was fast and easy to do everything I needed. Now, however, I do 90% of my calendar management on my PC (via Google) _mostly_ because the Pre's calendar is so miserable to use.
I've been attributing this slowness to the fact that I have >10 years' worth of calendar data (well over 10,000 events) on Google for it to sort through. I'd be interested in hearing how far back your calendar data go. If anyone here thinks the calendar zips by, let me know how many events (roughly) you have (or how far back they go)...I'd like some more data points. Thanks. - Craig p.s. I'm trying to get Palm to pay attention to this list, but I've no reason so far to suspect that they do. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Don Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I've complained here, and will no doubt complain again, about how slowly > the Pre scrolls from day to day in the calendar. I'm used to the > Treo/Centro/Blackberry, all of which can scroll from day to day as fast as > you can press the D-ring or scroll the trackball! > > > > The Pre is glacial by comparison. Scroll . . . wait . . . scroll . . . wait > . . . etc. Makes it VERY difficult to scroll around to a day or week to try > to zero in on a day to schedule something. As when, for instance I have to > scroll out "about 5 weeks" to schedule my next haircut. Yes, I can use the > incredibly klunky Go to Date screen. That's almost worse. Who designs > these things? What need/want to do is just flick through the days as fast > as I can flick my finger, and the Pre won't do it. > > > > HOWEVER, in the week or month views (which I've never used on any mobile > platform), one can scroll quickly, and sort of approximate the > search-and-find-a-day action that I'm used to on the older, but in this way > superior platforms. In the week view, one can scroll a week at a time > sideways and at least see free/busy time. In the month view, things scroll > vertically, so you can smoothly scroll through partial months. > > > > In the case of my example, I can go to the calendar, switch to month view, > flick down a bit to 5 weeks from now, click on the Monday of that week, and > then start the glacially slow process of examining the days. At least I'm > starting in about the right place now! > > > > I still hope Palm will make scrolling from day to day instantaneous. I'm > sure THEY know it's painful the way it is now. I can only assume there is > some issue with the merged calendar view (which I don't use, actually, since > "a man with more than one calendar has none") needing to dynamically build > each day one at a time. > > > > Palm should read this forum. In fact, given the proactiveness of The New > Palm, I have a hard time believing they don't have someone who reads it. > Craig has said they don't, though, and he knows things. . . > > > > I love this device - it's so cool, still, even after almost 4 months!!! > > > > FWIW, > > Don > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- CRA1G on Twitter
