I am a long time Palm user since the early Treo. Had the Palm Pre since last year, but upgraded to the EVO at BB and liked it but missed the keyboard. Ordered the Epic for $50 and looking forward to the Epic with a physical keyboard next week!
How many of you are coming from a Palm device ? ( WebOS/Pre/Pixi )
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The Palm Pre was my first smartphone. I've been a Spring customer for over 10 year now and am a premier member. I really like WebOs and I've been fortunate enough to only have had 1 Pre since the launch date in June last year. The hardware has not stood up though. My phone is slowly falling apart. I have a large crack that formed at the micro-usb port and stretches down to the gesture area. The coating partially peeled off the notification button. The phone itself is running much more slowly nowadays. I only have some photos stored on it and a handful of apps.
If the next WebOs device from Palm had been announced for Sprint, I'd probably be all over it, but instead I'll be in line Tuesday morning waiting excitedly for my first Android phone!
**EDIT**: I was first in line for the Epic at the 18th St NW store in DC. Arrived at 7:30am, was out the door by 8:20am. I haven't had a huge amount of time to play with it yet, but have a couple home screens personalized, downloaded a handful of apps, and even got to test the 4G north of DC in the Maryland suburbs. All I can say I am simply amazed by the device. Compared to my excitement when I purchased my Pre on launch day last year, it's no contest. I'm so glad I upgraded and made the switch. I miss the WebOs some, but I am already adjusting extremely well. This thing is blazing fast!
If the next WebOs device from Palm had been announced for Sprint, I'd probably be all over it, but instead I'll be in line Tuesday morning waiting excitedly for my first Android phone!
**EDIT**: I was first in line for the Epic at the 18th St NW store in DC. Arrived at 7:30am, was out the door by 8:20am. I haven't had a huge amount of time to play with it yet, but have a couple home screens personalized, downloaded a handful of apps, and even got to test the 4G north of DC in the Maryland suburbs. All I can say I am simply amazed by the device. Compared to my excitement when I purchased my Pre on launch day last year, it's no contest. I'm so glad I upgraded and made the switch. I miss the WebOs some, but I am already adjusting extremely well. This thing is blazing fast!
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I am with you 100% on that statement with one caveat... I would not have taken another portrait/vertical slider and webos 1.x is not fully compatible with horizontal. I imagine that webOS 2.0 will be fully compatible with horizontal and they may even go that route with the keyboard. Still... no announcement means months to actual product... I am giving webOS the boot for a year (at least) until they can get their act together, although I still really respect what they are doing.
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Will WebOS ever attract a lot of developers? They simply don't have enough third-party apps for me to be interested.
Palm has always been a portrait community. (well except for a few failed oddities) Embrace the WIDTH of the internet folks.
Hand someone an EPIC and a blackberry Torch both browsing the web and having to fill in text on a HTML Form and let me know who wins.
One handed texters cause accidents- 2 handed sliders do text with both speed and style.
Hand someone an EPIC and a blackberry Torch both browsing the web and having to fill in text on a HTML Form and let me know who wins.
One handed texters cause accidents- 2 handed sliders do text with both speed and style.
My Pre is LITERALLY falling apart . To the point to where i'm walking down the street , and plop ! A random peice falls out . The volume keys are now gone . @_@ I usually take good care of my phones , but my mom dropped it a while ago , and ever since then the pieces have just ben raining down .
What are you talking about? the Pre works prefectly fine in landscape mode wehn browsing.
Landscape keyboards have serious disadvantages. Usually when you are writing a lot of stuff you want to be in portrait so you can have more room to work with in between teh toolbars and status bars and stuff.
Palm is selling 1.5 generation old hardware at this point, that is the only problem they have. Make the screen a little bigger, make the battery a lot bigger, make the keyboard a bit bigger and Palm has an excellent device on their hands.
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I'm assuming this is your opinion as I in no way want to use a portrait for any purpose after the rolling around of my fingers on portrait keyboards. It was fun for 45 minutes, but then it was just annoying. Landscape isn't something to brag about either, but it definitely gets my vote.
I didn't mean to suggest the pre doesn't BROWSE in landscape- only that when it comes to internet content TEXT ENTRY- most of it is better suited to doing so while in widescreen. Your computer monitor is probably 16:9, so is your TV.
My 1st landscape keyboard was the Sidekick 1. After that experience, I hated portrait keyboards ever since. Yeah, I've had to put up with them, but I'm never as fast. As far as wanting to be in portrait to see less toolbars...in portrait or landscape- the toolbar is the same height- in MOST phones so I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Ever use the quick reply on this forum? the aspect ratio and number of lines visible is similar to a landscape slider (4-6 wide lines of text) in a portrait fashion - you see 1/2 as much.
But hey, to each their own. I know Palm and Blackberry will continue to do the portrait thing- and Android (thankfully) will be landscape, and WM7 may try a bit of both.
Choice is a good thing. As long as years from now they won't be offering ONLY non keyboard phones, I'll be a happy guy.
My 1st landscape keyboard was the Sidekick 1. After that experience, I hated portrait keyboards ever since. Yeah, I've had to put up with them, but I'm never as fast. As far as wanting to be in portrait to see less toolbars...in portrait or landscape- the toolbar is the same height- in MOST phones so I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Ever use the quick reply on this forum? the aspect ratio and number of lines visible is similar to a landscape slider (4-6 wide lines of text) in a portrait fashion - you see 1/2 as much.
But hey, to each their own. I know Palm and Blackberry will continue to do the portrait thing- and Android (thankfully) will be landscape, and WM7 may try a bit of both.
Choice is a good thing. As long as years from now they won't be offering ONLY non keyboard phones, I'll be a happy guy.
The epic keyboard is actually really nice, but I think I can type faster on a blackberry.
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Good point . I prefer landscape keyboards . I used to love my LG Rumors keyboard . Landscape keyboards are just bigger . Which helps me type faster .
reporting in. traded in webOS for android and have major butthurt. I have 29 days to pull out or get used to it.
I came from the original launch day Pre to the Evo and the wife just traded in her Pixi for the Epic. All I've heard all night is "wow its so big" lol. Palm/HP dropped the ball big time!
/\/\ lol... I find myself swiping and trying to srink 1 app to open another. gps looks nice on this screen. I'm happy i got it.
the VR wallpaper makes me feel like it is multitasking at least. Too bad when I tap the battery icon it does nothing (webos: tap), or clearing all notifications is the only option I have to clear the menu hidden notififcations (webos: shows context and swipe to clear individual notifacations), or closing programs is hidden in a task manager (webos: swipe), and the speaker is under my index finger (not on pre), and switching between open browser windows is convoluted (card metaphor win), and the OS only supports two rotation orientations instead of 4, and I can't change my taskbar apps (webos: drag/drop). However, it is rather responsive. I don't know if android was made for phones or people... I think webOS was, though. my two cents.
Also coming from a Palm Pre. Really loved WebOS. I think the user experience and interface is probably one of the best out there. Never had much problem with the hardware. Was kind of cheap feeling but I've had worse. The main reason I made the switch is the apps. After having the Pre for a year, there was still hardly any good apps available. There really is not many developers for the WebOS platform. I also thought I wanted a better keyboard, and thats what I got, just not they way I thought. Since playing around with Swype I find myself not using the physical keyboard at all. Still nice to have it though
My biggest complaint thus far is the inability for the built-in mail app to move emails to folders. I'm running Touchdown (demo) which does allow for this, but it's ugly (and not free). Otherwise, I can't say I miss much yet, coming from a Pre.
I currently have the Palm Pre (and visit PreCentral daily) and my primary line is upgrade elligible today been debating on 4G but like WebOS as well. This would be the phone for me because I like the keyboard compared to the EVO. I'm waiting currently for one financially and two maybe a 4G WebOS coming down the pipe someday. Android does interest me. I'm so torn...
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