Comments on: Pre-meditated Lust

By: leah

leah — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:57:39 +0000

This is *all* my boyfriend talks about now. I’m so going to show him this post!

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:06:55 +0000

Do want. The multicalendar function is right on — I have about 12 simultaneous google calendars to run our household…not to mention several different topics in Remember the Milk. We used a couple of HP PDAs synced to our main PC for a year or so before the calendar became inadequate. I *loved* the ability to write an appointment in my PDA and have it apprear in my husband’s.

What I really miss from this experience — and what would make me buy a smarter phone tomorrow — is the stylus that allowed me to input my notes and data via handwriting. It took a while for my PDA and me to get it together, and I know that many people never do — but for it’s made a phone with a keyboard, no matter how sophisticated,seem like a dumb relation.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:30:20 +0000

As soon as we can get a pre to evaluate we will start on this.

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:34:44 +0000

That’s great, Chris. Is there any reason that DCPL wouldn’t create an app for the Pre, given its open nature and the broad base of Palm users?

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:33:03 +0000

Terry and Chad, I'm totally with you on the Palm loyalty. I've been pretty happy with my Centro, especially this week when I've been able to operate it completely with one gloved hand in the cold weather. I have a ton of programs I've used for years that I'm guessing won't port directly to the Pre, but I don't think it will take long for the developer community to jump all over this and make Palm programs even better than they've always been.

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:29:16 +0000

Aaron, I know *you* don’t like Apple stuff just for Apple stuff, and I’m guessing Apple’s recent gaffes with DRM and personal info rankle you as much as they do me.

I’m guessing they didn’t mention the MP3 player because they may still not have a native one. Treos and the Centro have always bundled Pocket Tunes for this purpose, and the program is pretty good. It doesn’t have the album art flow that Apple products do, but I find that type of browsing annoying, so it’s not a problem for me. In fact, I’ve been streaming internet radio through PTunes for years, so my definition of “music player” is a lot more robust than just iTunes. What I’m hoping is that PTunes has been working on a new version that will come with the Pre and take advantage of the new features.

I would have absolutely no problem with the Pre not syncing with iTunes, but I know I’m in the minority on that one. I’d much prefer it to be like the Archos products that let me drag and drop, sync, and organize my music the way *I* want it organized.

The Palm folks are saying they’re not competing with the iPhone and that they’d be happy with just 1–2% of the world market. I know that’s not really the whole truth, but I think they’re smart to focus on the internet experience instead of on the digital file, because we’re only a few years away from music being streamed directly from the cloud. I have a feeling Apple’s engineers are working pretty furiously to back up and start over with an internet-focused OS for the iPhone instead of OS X. It will be interesting what comes from Apple a year from now.

That gives you plenty of time to work on a Pre app.

By: Jen Carbonneau

Jen Carbonneau — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:23:02 +0000

I am so glad that you posted this. Not yet owning a phone, I had been contemplaiting the possibilities. Reception is so ify in Northern, NH. However, this sounds like the phone for me. Thank you!