How many of you are WebOS transplants?

[milominderbinde]

I have a Palm Pre still and now an Epic 4G Touch. Part of the differences you are seeing are just the differences when you go from one car to another. The Cruise Control is in a different place. The wipers are a little different.

The biggest difference is that you are going from an Manual to an Automatic. You have always done your multitasking by hand. Now it will just happen automatically.

Check out the Palm webOS Homebrewer's Guide to Android and the Getting Started. They will walk you through everything.

 

[youngjediboy]

Thank you all for posting your thoughts. I am a launch day Pre girl and while I have decided to move on to Android, I just can't seem to make the leap.

My biggest block is the lack of physical keyboard. How bad is it, really? I am considering going with the Epic 4G just to keep a keyboard, but I understand it is actually on its way out of the lineup and I don't want to have my new phone already be old. LOL

Oh, and does it strike any of you as ironic that we are going from one of the shortest named phones to the longest? Seriously, what are we calling this thing?

It's really not that bad regarding the keyboard. I also was really worried about switching to a virtual keyboard. I've always preferred hardware keys, but just having the phone for a day now I'm starting to get used to it. Swype is definitely very cool and at least for most common words can predict what you're trying to swype, it's only for some names and rare words where I'd have to peck out the words. Also, with the huge screen it wasn't a problem. In the past I've only ever tried out virtual keyboards on friends' iPhones, which are quite smaller, and I thought I would never be able to adjust. But here I am and it really isn't as big of a deal as I thought it would be.

 

[maskedferret]

I'm another launch-day Sprint Pre migrant. Still experiencing a bit of separation anxiety from WebOS, but I'm slowly getting familiar with moving around Android OS.

So far I am not too crazy about having to give up task management to the system. I am noticing not all apps will maintain their previous state after having been killed. The virtual keyboard is taking some getting used to, but I know it will get better over time.

Regardless, these dislikes do not overshadow the huge improvements in coming to this phone; faster and better hardware, applications galore, and widgets -- to name a few of the things I am very happy about.

 

[folarino]

At this point, just getting MM to detect the phone in the first place. I just want to be able to transfer over the music from MM though, I liked how it would preserve my playlists, ratings, cover art and etc when used with my Pre.

Ok 2 questions:

1. When you connect your Epic4GT to your desktop/laptop does your phone say MTP-Connected?
2. If so, when you open My Computer do you see SPH-D710 listed as a portable device?

If you don't see SPH-D710 most likely don't have the device driver installed. I believe this is an issue with compatiblity with Windows 7 64 bit.

The fix is to download the driver in device mgr. Open Device manager and expand Portable devices.
You should have SPH-D710 (Galaxy s2)
Double click it and have windows search for a driver (not on your computer). it will find one and you should be good to go.

Open MediaMonkey and you should now see SPH-D710 (Phone) and SPH-D710 (Card). You can select which one to sync to. SPH-D710 (Phone) is your phone's internal storage and SPH-D710 (Card) is your SD card.

 

[mpnalvin]

@Kim For me, the virtual keyboard is a huge deal. I typed a lot on my Pre. I've tried swype, swift keyboard, stock Android keyboard, Samsung keyboard and others. None of them come anywhere close to having a hardware keyboard in terms of speed or accuracy. The advanced ones, like swype and swift implicitly admit the problem by noting how much they save you from having to type. When they work well, they do indeed save typing. When they work poorly, you end up having to type everything twice. On the other hand, I tried the original Epic that has a hardware keyboard, and it seemed to be trying to be a hardware version of a virtual keyboard -- flat, with very little tactile feedback. I don't see a high-performance Android device out there that has a hardware keyboard well designed for typing. In that case, it's a matter of whether you can put up with it to get all the other great things that come with Android. I think for me I might get used to it eventually. My wife likes her fingernails, and for her it's the number one problem with Android.

 

[Nickw511]

I went from a Pre to the first Epic and now this. I can tell you that once I got use to Swype I almost never ever used the physical keyboard. Make sure haptic feedback is turned up.
Also check out "Wave Launcher" app from the market. And "No Lock" too.

 

[dr_elusive]

Launch day Pre user here. I have my Epic touch ordered, but it hasn't arrived yet. Looking forward to it, my poor old Pre is just about worn out.

Dr.

 

[DuStU]

Thank you all for posting your thoughts. I am a launch day Pre girl and while I have decided to move on to Android, I just can't seem to make the leap.

My biggest block is the lack of physical keyboard. How bad is it, really? I am considering going with the Epic 4G just to keep a keyboard, but I understand it is actually on its way out of the lineup and I don't want to have my new phone already be old. LOL

Oh, and does it strike any of you as ironic that we are going from one of the shortest named phones to the longest? Seriously, what are we calling this thing?

The keyboard is so freaking big and the processor is so fast that once you get used to it you will be flying while tapping really light. I went from samsung instinct to launch day pre to this phone. I was just hanging with Iphone4 users and they started to heckle me and soon it turned into. Woah man that is ridiculous. I had a "your phone is old and slower than mine" moment with them lol.

 

[DuStU]

Thank you everyone for your replies. I guess a month from now we can see how we have adjusted. I really love this phone. I love how light it is but the build is solid. Even with a case it is thin enough for my pocket. Next step is to HDMI this thing with the PS2 emulator and hook it up to my tv with the bluetooth controller. Check this out! Samsung Galaxy S2 Mhl Gaming Video with bluetooth Keyboard - YouTube Plus you can plug in a mouse and keyboard and a mouse icon comes up. How sick is that

 

[g_schrage52]

I just ordered 5 of these phones to replace 5 day 1 Pre - phones on the family account. Waited around for some iphone news, but decided to pull the trigger with the letstalk deal.

RIP webos/palm, but **** HP.

 

[fed123]

Still using my Pre+ but will be ditching it in January as it has no future. Haven't yet decided on an Android but am seriously considering it. My daughter has the Droid 2 and the physical keyboard is great.

 

[kimdushinski]

Thanks everyone for your feedback about the keyboard. I guess the only way to find out if I will learn to be OK without one or even love it is to dive in.

 

[youngjediboy]

Yeah, that's the best way to find out. I'm only on day 2 now and I'm still trying to get used to the virtual keyboard, but so far I haven't had any big issues.

 

[paulgallaher]

I too was a Pre- user from day 1. I am happy to report that the tech advances on this Galaxy S2 make the upgrade easy.

For all of you struggling with the virtual keyboard, check out the "Mike or Microphone" icon available whenever you need to type anything. This phones' voice recognition is better than anything I've aver seen and it doesn't need any training to work.

I've been doing searches with voice, sending txt msgs with voice, really anything that you used to type can be spoken including punctuation.

Another wonderful feature tthat I look forward to using is the Google Maps "lab". I travel to many Asian countries often. I've been frustrated and not having a map cached in my phones' memory that I could use with GPS, but w/o data or WiFi:

Google Maps for Android Labs Offers Offline Caching

I will miss WebOS, but the new Adroid OS looks like a fairly easy transition.

 

[maskedferret]

Is there an Android app out there that can provide what Synergy did to the WebOS Messenger app? I.e. group different messaging protocols (sms, mms, aim, gtalk, and Yahoo) for the same person onto a single conversation thread?

I'm having a hard time alone trying to find one that combines sms and gtalk.

 

[DuStU]

Is there an Android app out there that can provide what Synergy did to the WebOS Messenger app? I.e. group different messaging protocols (sms, mms, aim, gtalk, and Yahoo) for the same person onto a single conversation thread?

I'm having a hard time alone trying to find one that combines sms and gtalk.

Mask look in your phone and you will see an app that is like synergy on steroids. It is called Social Hub. I dont like all that crap since it bogs down the battery. But if that is what you need I think that will do.

 

[maskedferret]

Mask look in your phone and you will see an app that is like synergy on steroids. It is called Social Hub. I dont like all that crap since it bogs down the battery. But if that is what you need I think that will do.

Close, but not quite. It seems all Social Hub does is gather email, sms, and sns accounts together into a single list to select from. Also, it doesnt seem to give consideration to IM protocols or acknowledge merged contacts.

 

[rlanza1054]

Count me in this group!

My S2 is supposed to be delivered today!

But I can't help wondering if I'm getting the right phone at this point, with reading all about speed issues and reception.

Rob

 

[rlanza1054]

Just to add to my previous post, I'm glad you started this thread in the S2 area.

I found Android Central not to be as active as PreCentral, we are known for being very vocal and hopefully we can bring some of that over here!

Rob

 

[JamesBond007]

The keyboard on my Trusty Treo 700p finally stopped working (top row - you know, the one with (almost) all the vowels - to be specific) ... so I finally caved and bought a SGS2ET4G yesterday from LetsTalk.com. With the discount the price came to $147, which was over $100 than the Sprint store wanted to charge. $199 + tax + $36 activation fee as a special thank you for being a 10+ year customer. No thank you!

Anyway, if anyone else is coming from PalmOS, check out this link for converting your old pdb contacts, calendar, etc databases to formats you can import to Google Contacts and Calendar: PdbConverter - Index - shredzone.org