Posted on 08/12/2010 9:47:17 AM PDT by Daveinyork
I'm thinking of getting a Palm Pre Plus from ATT or Verizon as a successor to my Palm Centro. Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
“Captain. It is I, Ensign Pulver and I just threw your Palm Pre overboard”. I know....awful, but I couldn’t resist.
I have the standard Pre. Great operating system but the sliding keyboard is annoying and the edges are still sharper than they should be.
Stay away from Palm...I had the Pixi then the Pixi Plus and then the Pre... if you move around too fast, they crash! If you slide up screens way too fast, they crash! And the apps are simply not there! I miss the Palm PDAs, the Tungsten was my friend for many years, starting with the fist Palm IIIc in late 90s... RIP PALM! Unfortunately!
Just get a BlackBerry or a Droid or an iPhone!
My son has the Pre. He’s not a big fan but that is just because he wants and iPhone and I don’t want to switch to ATT. My opinion of the Pre is that the sliding keyboard is just one of those kinds of things that seems nice at first, but mechanical stuff increases the likelihood of failure.
If you are already with ATT, an iPhone will surprise you.
My reason is that only Palm products will sync with the palm desktop, and I don’t want to spend a lot of time transitioning. I figure that, once I have the Pre operating, I can switch my info from the desktop to a web based location, and then I’ll be in position to move to an iphone or another web based device in a year or two.
BTTT
I’m still dependent on my Palm m515. I lost it for about 2 days this week, and it almost made me sick to my stomach to think of all the information I had lost.
I’m thinking of getting a phone that runs on the Palm OS. I’m on Sprint PCS. Does anyone know which phones work well with the Palm OS? I really don’t want to go to a Windows based phone. I don’t want a data plan. I just want to get my Palm data onto my phone.
Any suggestions?
“If you are already with ATT, an iPhone will surprise you.”
How bad is the transition from palm desktop to whatever would replace it with the iphone?
I’m told that the Pre and the Pixie, and their “plus” versions will sync with the palm desktop. I graduated form a Tungsten to a Centro, about two years ago, with some minor transition headaches, but my calendar and other important business functions stayed pretty much the same.
Depends on your computer. I'm a Mac guy and Palm is very compatible with all things Mac. Can't say what's involved on a PC.
Would you recommed the new iphone 4, or the older 3g?
Never look back. :-)
The 4.
The Palm Pre does not sync with your desktop any longer. You will go through a process to transition your data either to an online backup with Palm, or you have to setup a gmail account to work with it. It can also sync with an exchange server I believe, but not sure on this. All this could be a concern if you ever decide to switch to another platform.
My wife has this phone and she loves it. She’s a long time Palm user and for professional reasons has to keep track of appointments from years ago. When we moved her data, it took several tries because of the large amount of data, but tech-support was excellent.
Wasn’t HP buying Palm?
THE PALM PRE WILL NOT SYNC TO THE PALM DESKTOP. I bought it thinking the same thing. It does not. Instead it syncs to Google or Yahoo cloud computing. Your calendar and contacts are stored by those entities. It will sync to your company’s exchange server so you can get your outlook calendar, contacts and email. No luck for Lotus Notes or other packages(are there other corp emails?)
I like the phone but my daughters new Envie(sp) is faster and the droid and Iphone have more apps.
the palm web page claims that it will sync with the palm dsesktop. I suppose that is a misrepresentation. That was what had me leaning toward the Pre.
What are you moving? Just contacts and stuff like that?
If so, I believe Funambol has a solution to move things from PalmOS to the cloud and then you can move them anywhere.
What I ended up doing, in the days before I was aware of Funambol, was to just read the contacts PDB file with a text editor and get the phone numbers out that way. Then, I put them into my new phone. The Funambol solution should be a lot simpler than that.
Just do yourself a favor and don’t saddle yourself with a Windows Mobile phone. The iPhone or an Android phone are really the only viable option these days. I had Treos since the Treo 180 and I loved them dearly, but Palm let PalmOS die on the vine. Such a shame. I hear the new OS is great, but the hardware they have it on is total junk.
Hmmmm, either we we told wrong or that info is wrong. I would much prefer her be able to back up her info locally, for obvious reasons. She has over 34,000 entries in her calendar alone!
Palms don’t run on windows mobile. they use their own WebOS.
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