Yep! Keyboard - good
No zoom - who cares. It would be digital zoom anyway No video - bad (but fixed in less than a month) Pictures - good Glossy case (or touchstone case) - you get used to it, then good. Battery life - soso - but no worse than any other comparable phone (but what you describe is not normal). "mark chuncks of text to cut-n-paste" - no idea what that means. If you mean select text for cut/copy and paste, it's there. PreCentral will tell you. Shift-swipe to select. Thumb on the gesture area and C for copy, X for cut. Thumb on the gesture area and V for paste. Cheers, Don From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Messeder Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 2:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Palm Pre and Sprint, first impressions 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] <mailto:craig.froehle%40gmail.com> > wrote: > optical zoom on the camera, not zooming in on > > a photo he's already taken. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
