On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:38 PM, John Messeder <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm on a Sprint Pre. The Pre+ may be different.
> It's the one thing that could make me switch away from the Pre, in
> favor of either the HTC Hero or Samsung Moment. The Hero's camera is,
> reviews seem consistently to say, slow and blurry. The Pre's camera is
> the opposite, but doesn't do video. Rumor is OS Update 1.4 will have video.
>
Just to clarify, this isn't a "rumor." It was demo'd by Palm at CES who
stated definitively that it would be in the 1.4 update, and that that update
would arrive in February.
> I'm a journalist and I do a lot of writing on the handheld device.
> If I can't write on the screen, which I could on all the Treos, at least
> give me a decent keyboard. Jury's still out on the Pre.
>
The Moment has a slider keyboard, like the Pre, but in landscape
> to the Pre's portrait orientation.
> In sum -- if I can get comfortable with the Pre's keyboard, I'll
> be in love. The TP was nice, but ActiveStink stank. It would only sync a
> couple times a day, and odds were if I edited on both the TP and online,
> I'd get a "changes on the server" error that would require an unlink and
> relink/rebuild the connections with the Google databases.
>
These things are pretty subjective. I had an HTC Touch Pro, which I got in
large part due to the large keyboard. Unlike you I found the keyboard one
of the worst I'd used - certainly worse than any of the previous Treos I
had.. Somehow the keys were too big or too far apart, and on top of that
entering text was super-laggy. I'd like the Pre's keyboard to be about 50%
larger max, but that's me. I keep hearing that the iPod's onscreen keyboard
works really well, but whenever I've used my wife's iPod Touch, it takes me
a long time to type something with lots of mistakes.
Levi Wallach
blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com
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