On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, John Messeder <[email protected]> wrote: > Don Ferguson wrote: >> 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.
Here's what digital zoom does: 1) Take a picture 2) crop down to the center half of the photo 3) resize up the photo back to the original resolution If you think that actually produces useful results for you, then it's easy to do in any desktop photo editing utility using those steps. >> No video - bad (but fixed in less than a month) > A coming mod about which I've not read yet? Keep up, John...Palm will be releasing webOS v1.4, which includes video recording and editing on-board (among other things) in February. >> Glossy case (or touchstone case) - you get used to it, then good. > I doubt it, but the Seidio case will help. Here's how to slide open the keyboard quickly and nearly effortlessly: put your thumb right in the middle of the screen. cradle the back in your fingers. slide your thumb up. voila! Don't worry about pushing on the screen...webOS is smart enough to ignore it even when the screen is on an unlocked. >> 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. New batteries always have less capacity than they do when they're a week or more old...give it a few days. That said, what you describe is, as Don says, not normal. If it doesn't markedly improve after a few days (e.g., you should be able to go morning until evening before it petering out), go back to the Sprint store and demand a new 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. Good...and it doesn't have to be your thumb....any digit (or body part for that matter) will do. ;-) > But there I was copying something out of the calendar and came up with a > real need for an Undo command! No undo that I know of. webOS, like Palm OS, is an instant-save OS...it's changing things as you do it.
