Don Ferguson wrote:
>
> Keyboard - good
Jury's still out on that
>
> No zoom - who cares. It would be digital zoom anyway
But for my uses, digital zoom is better than no zoom. OTOH, if I
need real zoom, I have a Nikon D80.
>
> No video - bad (but fixed in less than a month)
A coming mod about which I've not read yet?
>
> Pictures - good
Yup
>
> Glossy case (or touchstone case) - you get used to it, then good.
I doubt it, but the Seidio case will help.
>
> Battery life - soso - but no worse than any other comparable phone (but what
> you describe is not normal).
I'll give it a couple more days to see whether it's a consistent battery
life, but I'd be buying the long-life battery.
>
> Thumb on the gesture area and V for paste.
I found how to mark it, but hadn't found the X/C/V commands. Thanks.
But there I was copying something out of the calendar and came up with a
real need for an Undo command!
I'm keeping on with the real-world use. As I mentioned, I pretty much
treat the thing like a mini-tablet. I have since I could write on the
screen (with a stylus) of my first Treo. I even had the Transcriber
working fairly well on the Treo Pro.
I'm guessing, as I get used to or cure the other things, that
editing ability will be the ultimate test.
I bet it'd be pretty cool if I were to get the homebrew keyboard and if
Evernote would rotate sideways. The rotate part is so the keys are large
enough to hit easily.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Don
>
> From: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> Of John
> Messeder
> Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 2:45 PM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com>
> 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.
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