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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Don Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Just finished the 1.4 update. > > > > Looking around: > > > > I had high expectations of this update, so I'm bound to be disappointed in > many ways. That said, there are lots of nice additions. > > > > Performance does seem to be better, smoother, except in the transition > between pages in the launcher, which is still choppy. This should be a > high > priority fix for Palm, since it's the launcher pages that people interact > with most often!! Come on Palm!! > > > I haven't noticed any issues with page transitions. Prior to 1.4 it would sometimes get sluggish, but so far haven't had that with 1.4, but it's early and it wasn't a regular ocurrence even before 1.4. > > The new call log is nice, but they still don't have call durations shown. > Have to see if the patch still works. Come on Palm!! > > > The patch does not work. But they are supposed to be updating the ones that don't work as time allows. > > New Videos icon on the first launcher page - exciting!! Opening the video > application . . . no record button. Huh? Open the Help, it says to open > Camera to record video. Really? Can't we record Videos from inside > Videos? > Sometimes the user interface decisions companies make baffle me. Palm does > better than most, especially with the Pre, but I'll have to fiddle for > awhile and see how long it takes to adapt. > > > I initially thought it might be in the videos app, but it makes sense that it isn't. You've never been able to access the camera through the pictures app, although maybe that is also a deficiency in your eyes. I suppose it would be fine to allow this, but seems like a bit superfluous at least for me - I almost never opened the pictures app, just the camera. I knew I could get to the pictures via the camera if I needed to... > > No voice recorder, really?? Would that have been difficult? Granted, the > audio volume on the Video recorder is pretty low, even at max. Come on > Palm!! > > Yeah, this would have been nice. The other big guys have this as well and so you can use them for recording podcasts. If Palm wants to compete, this should be added to the list, albeit not top priority of course. > I think the new splash card thingy that happens when you start an app is > clever, but I don't think it means the apps start any faster; we just have > something to look at while they start. Welcome to Disneyland! > > That's the whole point. It's about the perception. I think I've looked at a friend's iPhone a handful of times and so don't really remember, but heard somewhere that they do something similar with apps loading. I do appreciate it because previously it was unclear sometimes that the icon was even successfully activated. I did have one instance when I tried to load the calendar and the card sat there glowing on and off for quire a while. I finally swiped it away and hit the icon again at which point the calendar came up within seconds. So I guess it's not a fullproof solution, but it does make it seem like the Pre is loading things faster even if that's not exactly true - although I do think people have noted that in general apps and web pages, etc. load faster. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
