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?
“What are you moving? Just contacts and stuff like that?”
contacts, calendar, to do lists, pictures, mp3 files, pdf, word and excel files.
Prior to the Pre, they had phones with Windows Mobile. WebOS is a pretty new operating system and it’s in limbo at the moment, since it’s not clear what Palm’s new owners have planned for it.
If that’s the case, my advice would be to move everything from Palm Desktop to an Evernote account. Evernote has free apps for every major phone OS, so all of your stuff will be accessible on the new phone.
Here’s a walkthrough for that:
http://www.evernote.com/pub/ensupport/faq#n=6df8ca7b-9548-4511-966a-41ad9aa091ac
To upload PDF’s to Evernote, I think you need the premium account, but it’s not ridiculously expensive.
Then, sync the contacts with whatever Funambol has for PalmOS.
I think you’re gonna be stuck with a transition no matter what you do, but the good news is that once you have your stuff in the cloud, it’ll be easier to transition in the future.
Thanks for the advice, and thanks to all who have chimed in to keep me confused. Now I’m leaning toward the iphone. If it works for Rush, how bad can it be?
No, but try to say that three times, fast.
If Allthegoodusernamesaregone suggests looking at other phones, of the three he mentioned I'd go with the Droid (I have the Droid and love it; my son-in-law has the Iphone and is looking to switch to the Droid; my other son has the Blackberry Storm - he loves it, but it doesn't support certain apps that are included with the Droid without additional charges such as the navigation function)
There are many other smart phones out there - good luck in your choice.
Anytime. :)
I moved to an iPhone after a disastrous flirtation with Windows Mobile after PalmOS. I just upgraded to the iPhone 4 and I love it. It not only does everything the Palm did, but the way some of the apps can help you prioritize and organize your entire life is truly amazing.
The only things I don’t like are the Apple zombies, being tied to AT&T, and the iron fisted way that Apple tries to control what all the apps do. But I ignore the first, curse at the second, and jailbreak to get around the third.
Android has really come into it’s own and is very worth looking at now as well. When it comes time for my next device, I’m going to be taking a very serious look at Android. I believe there will come a time in the fairly near future, where Apple’s iron fist begins to hamper their ability to compete with Android’s features. Just something to keep in mind. Whichever way you go, you’ll be light years ahead of the old PalmOS devices. As wonderful as they were in their day, they just don’t hold a candle to the new stuff.
Oh, also, Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) might be helpful in getting some of your data onto the phone. If you do the PDF’s with that, since it has a built in PDF reader on the iPhone app, you’ll get around having to pay for the premium Evernote account. Dropbox is an amazing service that everyone probably has some use for somewhere along the line.
My humble apologies - LOL. I hate it when I assume incorrectly.
no sweat :-)
I think I may limp along with my Centro, which is mostly adequate to my business needs, until the furor over the iphone 4 and droid X are over and they are readily available. Then I can make up my mind, once somebody explains to me how they interface with data entered on my computer. I’m not mobile a lot, and it works best for me to enter calendar, tasks, and address to my computer most of the time, and then sync it to my smart phone. That’s what I like about the palm os and the palm desktop.
Maybe enough people will be demanding such a business friendly process that the smart phone operating systems will accomodate. Maybe not.
They should be readily available now. Especially if you order online.
You should find that both support Activesync and can sync everything from Outlook or a number of other solutions. You should find yourself in the position of having a choice of what solution to use on your desktop and have that seamlessly sync with the wireless phone. You may find Android better for your needs, since it does allow developers more leeway to give end users what they want. For instance, for my work, it is imperative that I am made aware of text messages at all hours of the day and night. However, the iPhone has no way of doing a nagging alert until the text message is seen and Apple doesn’t allow developers access to that portion of the operating system. In order to get that functionality, I had to jailbreak and use a program called Intelliscreen. In fairness, I haven’t tried it with Android, but I’m sure it’s an easily obtainable feature, since the only people who seem to think this is a foreign concept are Apple people.
You’re probably right to hold off for a bit and do your research. It’s never nice to be surprised by the lack of an important feature on a phone you just signed your first born away for a contract that includes lousy coverage. :)
Which android device are you considering?
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