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
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?