Couple of things about my new phone.
Craig's right; after awhile I'm getting used to the keyboard.
Though my right thumb doesn't fit as well as on a more open keyboard,
it's not a deal breaker.
The camera does not zoom or shoot video. I think I knew the
latter. But the 3Mp still camera makes pics that look pretty good in
Photoshop, and likely will do just fine on the web or newsprint. It'd be
nice to have video, but ...
The glossy case is a pain in the butt to open, especially when you
decide after starting something that you need the keyboard. (Gotta find
that homebrew virtual keyboard, I guess.) But you gotta be real careful
opening it when, for instance, you're in a phone call.
BTW, 3verything I've read about the short battery life of a stock
Pre gave it too much credit. I left the house this morning with a full
battery and some grocery shopping. I used Evernote for the shopping
list, deleting things as I found them, and wrote some notes about what
I'm writing now. And I made a call that lasted about 10 minutes (I
haven't found call history, yet.) And the battery is down to 18%.)
So if I keep the Pre, I'll need the 2600mAh battery from Seidio,
which comes with the Innocase Surface that made my Treo Pro feel so
much better in my fingers, thus also curing the slippery case syndrome.
There is one thing, though, that weighs in pretty heavily. I've not
found a way to mark chuncks of text to cut-n-paste. Since I am used to
doing a lot of note-taking and story writing -- sometimes whole articles
or columns in Evernote -- that could be a problem.
Not yet, tho, because I haven't yet researched precentral.
On 01/21/2010 10:52:08 PM -0500 Craig Froehle <[email protected]>
wrote:
> optical zoom on the camera, not zooming in on
>
> a photo he's already taken.
