so what about the Pixi? It has no slider issue - only thing is it has no wifi on Sprint
On 1/25/10, John Messeder <[email protected]> wrote: > Turning them off, installing the Palm update, and turning them on, > especially selectively, does not sound as painful as > uninstalling/reinstalling them. At any rate, I don't know how many I > would install. > I am at a turning point right now. The Pre is super cool except in > one place that's pretty much a deal breaker, and a couple of place that > sort of reinforce the issue. > The d/b is the keyboard. My thumbs just don't get along with it > for more than short stuff. It's fine for adding a contact, entering a > search or URL, even for a short text message. But it doesn't work for > longer stuff. My thumbs and the bottom of the display are in constant > battle. The rest of the keyboard is OK. Not as nice as the Treo Pro, but > OK. But the thumb battle -- as I've mentioned previously, I use Evernote > as a pseudo word processor. I've been known to file whole stories from > my several Treos, and when EN came along, I about threw a party. > The other problem, though admittedly a lot lower on the pain list, > is the camera. Zoom may be coming, and video probably is coming, so, if > not for the keyboard, I could just wait it out. > So my choice is go through the hoops to install the virtual > keyboard, or try the HTC Hero. I'm leaning toward the latter, if for no > other reason than to say I tried it and know why I didn't stay with it. > I was one of the weird ones who actually liked the iPhone > keyboard. It was iPhone's inability to sync edited notes, even notes > that were part of contacts and events, that broke that deal. > WinMob's unreliability with ActiveSync (plus my desire for the > less expensive Sprint service) is giving me an op to try the Pre/Hero > offerings. > Decisions, decisions. But it really all comes down to that > keyboard thing. Cause, man, other'n that, I love the Pre. > > On 1/25/2010 7:36 AM, Craig Froehle wrote: >> Yes, that would be nice and, in fact, it exists! Kinda. Preware lets >> you turn on and off individual patches right through its interface. >> Of course, once you turn it off, you have to go through the list of >> all available ones to turn it back on. So, a nice feature addition to >> PW would be to have a personal list of patches such as you suggest. > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
