How many of you are coming from a Palm device ? ( WebOS/Pre/Pixi )

[v7z730ib]

I give them 2 years . I don't really expect much from the next phone . Maybe the one after that will be better . Yea , same thing here , the P|C community was very close , and helpful . Hope to find the same here at A|C . I will be counting down the hours until I can buy that monster superphone .

 

[sushi]

Sadly, I'm probably going to be switching from the Pre as well. HP has had plenty of time to give us hints, and the tablet reveal does nothing for me (I've got an iPad). Hoping that the Epic will prove to be awesome enough to convince me to switch.

 

[raf66]

I came from a Palm Treo with windows mobile.

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[footysr]

I'm handing my Pre down to my son when I get the Epic in 11 days.

WebOS is well done (for the most part), the occasional Pre slowdowns not so much. Maybe I'll overclock it when I hand it down. WebOS is going to make for some great tablets in the future I'm sure, provided they don't skimp on the hardware.

 

[drizek]

Coming from a pre, but I'm not too happy about it. I really love webos, and i will miss the small size of the pre.

I had planned on upgrading to android all along. Now i will have one device each for android, ios and webos. Next on my list is the Kin.

 

[v7z730ib]

Coming from a pre, but I'm not too happy about it. I really love webos, and i will miss the small size of the pre.

I had planned on upgrading to android all along. Now i will have one device each for android, ios and webos. Next on my list is the Kin.

Lol , hope your not serious about the Kin . They already shut down production of that phone . It's a piece of total crap .

Sadly, I'm probably going to be switching from the Pre as well. HP has had plenty of time to give us hints, and the tablet reveal does nothing for me (I've got an iPad). Hoping that the Epic will prove to be awesome enough to convince me to switch.

No kidding ! At-least give us a little hint ! A tease ! blurry picture ! SOMETHING . Throw us a bone . At-least let us know that you have plans for a new phone . @_@

 

[v7z730ib]

I'm handing my Pre down to my son when I get the Epic in 11 days.

WebOS is well done (for the most part), the occasional Pre slowdowns not so much. Maybe I'll overclock it when I hand it down. WebOS is going to make for some great tablets in the future I'm sure, provided they don't skimp on the hardware.

Good idea . I overclocked mine to 1 GHZ . f105 Thunderchief . I tried 1.2 but it was just too unstable for me .

 

[kinster02]

Hey, to all you new and future Android newbies a site to have on your computer for apps is called appbrain.com. This site you can visit now all it requires is a Gmail account and I know all of you should have that coming from a Pre and you will need it to load your contacts and stuff to your new phone at setup. This site allows you to see and download and sync apps/games from your computer ota to your phone without having to go through the small app on your phone...your will have to load the app on your phone from the market place once your get your phone in order to sync or download. So go ahead and check out Android apps and put them your folder so when you get your phone all you have do is hit sync from the phone app and your apps will be on your phone ready to download. They just updated the whole site today to make thing easier...just a heads up. This site will also keep track of the apps on your phone should you need download again. Oh, feel free to hit the thanks button if I've been any help to you.

 

[v7z730ib]

Hey, to all you new and future Android newbies a site to have on your computer for apps is called appbrain.com. This site you can visit now all it requires is a Gmail account and I know all of you should have that coming from a Pre and you will need it to load your contacts and stuff to your new phone at setup. This site allows you to see and download and sync apps from your computer to your phone without having to go through the small app on your phone...your will have to load the app on your phone from the market place once your get your phone in order to sync or download. So go ahead and check out Android apps and put them in a folder so when you get your phone all you have do is hit sync from the phone app and your apps will be on your phone ready to download. They just updated the whole site today to make thing easier...just a heads up.

Thanks very much . Should make the transition alot easier for alot of us .

 

[messiah143]

I'm coming from the Palm Pre and really loved the WebOs and the UI of the smartphone. Also, I loved the homebrew community and the fact that it was so easy to navigate through it. The only reason why I'm leaving Palm and going over to the Samsung Galaxy S Epic 4G is the fact that Palm has left their user base in the dark to what is for the future. Right now we who have Palm Pre's and Pixi's or plagued with terrible hardware that is over two years old right now. Plus they have a small App store with only a little over 3000 apps, but a total of 4000 with homebrew and Palm apps all together. I have seen Android really come a long and make really good hardware and a really strong OS very quickly. I will always love Palm and what they have done. It's just time to move on.

 

[v7z730ib]

Amen .



I'll be sure to add you into the count .

 

[liquidxit2]

I have a pre. Well technically Im using a moment right now. I LOVE webos, but like you I think and know firts hand that the hardware is crap. I think if the funding is there and they get their act together in a year webOS will be great. But they need the hardware to compete with the droid phones on the market and using the crap hardware in the pre to compete with those phones is lunacy.

 

[deadpanwalking]

Coming from palm pre. Love webos. But the hardware just got to much to handle. 7 exchanges are just too much. Also I love the form factor of the evo.

Same here. Except the hardware for me got too much to handle. I'm sorry. Won't do that again. But seriously WebOS is still the most elegant solution I've found to handle multitasking on a small screen form factor. I guess I'll have to settle on having my WebOS on a pad form factor while settling on Android for cell phones.

 

[bliger241]

I'm coming from pre, going to miss the touchstone most of all.

 

[cary328is]

I'm upgrading my Sprint Pre to the Epic. Although I share the same sentiments as most folks here about loving WebOS, I think it's a shame Palm put such a potentially strong operating system on sub-par hardware. I hope HP can be successful with WebOS and put it on more well-deserved hardware. The Epic on the other hand, is just going to fly circles around the Palm Pre's hardware. Insane. I've been watching all the youtube vids and I get more excited each day that passes

 

[drizek]

I'm coming from pre, going to miss the touchstone most of all.

I'm going to try and use it with my Epic. It would be awesome if it works.

 

[frankos72]

I will always love Palm and what they have done. It's just time to move on.

In this last sentence you make is sound like webOS is Dead. Man if HP can't make webOS Shine in the phone market, either on their own hardware or licensing it out, then that will be one of the biggest losses EVER in the tech industry.

I guess if it survives in tablets, then that might suffice to help it make a comeback in the future.

Heck I kinda see whats happening with webOS and android as a pseudo parallel to Apple and Windows back in the day. Apple clearly had the better interface, but was all but lost in the shuffle and ran over by DOS/windows. Apple held on long enough to now have a good thriving business. Heck, I'm I PC guy and I'm liking windows 7, but I'd install OS X in a heartbeat if Apple would make it easier. It's kinda a shame we all had to put up with major gaffes like windows ME and junk like windows 3.11 (although it seemed cool at the time) when we could have been using a more polished Apple OS from the start had they had a better business plan.

So, maybe even if webOS' market share shrinks to next to nothing, I guess as long has HP keeps working on it, hopefully it will never DIE.

 

[footysr]

Heck, I'm I PC guy and I'm liking windows 7

It's only shortfalls are it's price and the multiple versions. Lower it to $130 and offer 1 version and they'd probably be making more cash than they are now.

Sorry... Back on topic.

 

[rinkeedink]

I am coming a Sprint Pre, off contract. So, getting back on contract for the Epic is a big deal. I tried the EVO, and started a thread in the cross platform chat about it, because I had to return it. I had a lemon, I guess. But, ultimately, I was unhappy with the notifications and lack of physical keyboard.

So, I am gonna give android another shot with the Epic, and hope to root this time to get the user experience I want. From what I've read about Touchwiz, I will want to make some changes.

I was use to my heavily patched pre working flawlessy at 1.005 GHZ, but the phone is falling apart. I will really miss the Toucshtone too!

If the Epic doesn't work out for me in the first 30 days, I'll return it and wait for the next Palm device, or take the Palm Pre Plus and convert it to run my Sprint radio, like others are doing. Swipe to delete will be missed!

But, the Epic looks awesome, and I have my 32GB micro sd card from verizon to finally have all my music one device. Woot!

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

I am coming a Sprint Pre, off contract. So, getting back on contract for the Epic is a big deal. I tried the EVO, and started a thread in the cross platform chat about it, because I had to return it. I had a lemon, I guess. But, ultimately, I was unhappy with the notifications and lack of physical keyboard.

So, I am gonna give android another shot with the Epic, and hope to root this time to get the user experience I want. From what I've read about Touchwiz, I will want to make some changes.

I was use to my heavily patched pre working flawlessy at 1.005 GHZ, but the phone is falling apart. I will really miss the Toucshtone too!

If the Epic doesn't work out for me in the first 30 days, I'll return it and wait for the next Palm device, or take the Palm Pre Plus and convert it to run my Sprint radio, like others are doing. Swipe to delete will be missed!

But, the Epic looks awesome, and I have my 32GB micro sd card from verizon to finally have all my music one device. Woot!

Notifications are going to be the same more or less, which probably means you're going to be disappointed. You'll be waiting a while for another webOS device that isn't a printer or tablet. I couldn't wait, after 5 months of pre ownership, and 5 pre's I was happy to just do anything else, including a dumb phone if needed (or pay my ETF and leave). Fortunately, Sprint Customer Service replaced the 5th Pre with a Hero. Its not powerful, but it is built much, much better. The epic will be my second android device, and I know if I don't like Touchwiz, not to sweat it, cause there are plenty of other home replacements that work very well. If you were really into the patching (as you have to be to make a pre actually useful) then I would check out xda-developers.com. Plenty of great information on there. The community isn't as nice as A|C, but its way nicer than the P|C community.

I also like the touchstone, but even those aren't a great idea. I don't know about you, but I've woken up the next morning with a dead pre because the contact with the pre and touchstone weren't good enough to charge. I much prefer a hardwire dock, which will be available for the Epic for much cheaper than what a touchstone cost.