On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:59 PM, RickS <[email protected]> wrote: > The biggest deal breaker, for me, is losing DateBk6 with full integration to > my contacts.
If you use Exchange/Outlook, you can add people to events in a similar fashion. Heck, you can even email or call them straight from the calendar. >metric conversion programs. Available on Pre. Not sure what the others you mentioned do. > Other deal breakers ...the ability to type with 1 hand while doing something > else I do this all the time. It's faster with 2 hands, but completely possible with one. > I feel I must have a hard switch with feedback to turn off my ringer It has one, as all Palm phones do. On my Pre, it's in the same spot as it was on my 700p...I can turn off the ringer without getting it out of my front pants pocket (where I keep my phone). Keyboard on both the Pre & and the Pixi are quite good, just as good as my 700p was IMO. > On the other hand, I'm maintaining my calendar on both Google Calendar and > Palm Desktop, so I do have places from which to restore when the day happens > that I have to move. I'm also syncing contacts with Palm Desktop and > GooSync, so I have both a computer and a cloud solution available. You do know that you can access your Google Calendar on your PC even when it's not online, right? If you download Google Desktop (I think that's it), it'll give you offline access to your calendar, docs, gmail, etc. and then sync any updates when your PC gets connected again. There's really no need for Palm Desktop when it comes to calendaring...there are much better solutions available today. > I'm guessing that when the time comes I will end up on the Android platform, > but the jury is still out. Not sure why you'd say that without trying webOS first. Many Android users I know *wish* their devices were as tightly integrated with Google services as my Pre is. > I'm still finding that the newer devices are not faster than my 700P (which > is very slow) because of their software design. (This is not a scientific > study, but rather through discussions with salespeople or users on the > street, with the question...."How do you...". This is a valid complaint, and one that was particularly troubling for me until this last webOS update, which sped several things up considerably. But, that said, there's no platform out there today that is as fast/efficient as Palm OS was in terms of getting basic things done. And I think that's a bad sign. But, I also think that's a big opening for some aspiring programmers. CESD could do very well if he trained his sights on webOS and brought the efficiency and craft of his apps to the power and connectedness of that platform.
