On 1/29/10, John Messeder <[email protected]> wrote: > I tell that stuff to tell this: I'm loving the darn thing. When > it's working -- and so far it seems to be -- it's way ahead of the Treo > Pro I moved from. > When I edit a contact on Google, it updates on the Pre, and vice > versa. Same for calendar, and Evernote. Email from Google works great; > I'm hoping to get Google to grab from my work POP account and IMAP to > the Pre. I'll let y'all know how that works out.
I guess I've never had a problem with syncing on my Pro. > Its screen is half-again the size of the TP, and very crisp. > Pictures look real good on it. The browser is OK, but I have to admit to > not using it much. I don't to much web browsing. I guess this is one area where it could excel vs the Treo pro - as long as there was a way to be able to view documents without L-R scrolling as well as in pinch mode. > So far, I have one consistent gripe -- the keyboard is smaller > than the TP, and surrounded by, on three sides, a ridge around the > keyboard, and on the top, the large wall of the bottom of the display. > For a guy who does as much keyboarding as I do, and with my thumbs, > that's a bother. it sounds like a bother. When I last played with a Pre, I didn't notice it as an impediment, tho i admittedly didn't type much > I tried the virtual keyboard patch on Pre #1 and decided I > probably could get used to it. Now I've got Pre #2 and haven't yet > installed the patch. virtual keyboards are for suckers :) > 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. > The Hero is a candy bar style, with only a virtual keyboard. Same > resolution as the Pre, but a larger screen by about 1/4 inch in both > directions, making more room for larger keys. > 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. I find that I use my phone mostly for email, less so for calendar and contact maintenance, and (especially when away from home) media playing - both podcasts and recorded TV shows. It sounds like the latter isn't really an option (unless I setup some additional conversions) because of the WMV issue and the former will not work well in the stock media player. I also use the camera and the maps a fair bit. I suppose I should do what you did and try it out for 30 days and see, but somehow I just have a feeling i'd drop the thing and be stuck not being able to return it.
