Comments on: Palm Pre Review http://mattmaroon.com/2009/06/10/palm-pre-review/ Get Marooned Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:15:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Priit http://mattmaroon.com/2009/06/10/palm-pre-review/#comment-19639 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:15:03 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/2009/06/10/palm-pre-review/#comment-19639 “The ability to multitask so well is the phone’s money shot. A recent example would be me listening to music from the music app, while reading news in the New York Times app. Then I got a call, so my music automatically paused and the phone app came up. After I finished the call, I closed the phone app and the music started again, then I flipped back to NYT and got back to reading. I could have read the news while talking too, but I probably wouldn’t be much of a conversationalist that way.”

Really? This is exactomundo how this had worked from the day one on the iPhone.

“Which brings me to my one major gripe with the OS, the lack of customization. Some of the apps have preferences pages, but there’s generally very little there.”

Really? This is exactomundo how this had worked from the day one on the iPhone.

“There’s Calendaring, Tasks, and all of the other little frills you expect in a smart phone these days, but the killer app is probably Google Maps, which works with your GPS chip to make it easy to find nearby businesses and get directions. There’s also a memos app that lets you make little sticky notes, a clock app (that doesn’t ship with the phone but installs when you upgrade the OS) a calculator,”

Really? This is exactomundo how this had worked from the day one on the iPhone. Except that GPS thing which had worked from day two.

“Email is only missing one major feature, which is search.”

Really? This is exactomundo how this had worked from the day one on the iPhone.

“Palm treats every phone function as an app. Calling, messaging, email, music, everything.”

Really? This is exactomundo how this had worked from the day one on the iPhone.

… but very useful reading, thanks, I mean it, seriously.

]]> By: Mike May http://mattmaroon.com/2009/06/10/palm-pre-review/#comment-19638 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:50:28 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/2009/06/10/palm-pre-review/#comment-19638 This might be a really stupid question, but is there any difference between Sprint's and Verizon's EVDO network. I went to a Sprint store to look at a Pre and the clerks there were not exactly overflowing with helpful information on the subject. I'm a simple man with simple needs and therefore I've never needed to upgrade from the Treo 700P that has served me so faithfully all these years on Verizon. I'm just antisocial enough not to care whether Sprint's voice network is worse than Verizon's but I am concerned about their data network. Are there any tweaks that one network has over the other that anyone knows of.

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