I miss my Palm Pre

[jaguax]

I guess I should of rephrased my first post. Its absolutely the OS I miss. I don't miss the questionable hardware and the lack of apps. I do miss the unified look and feel of webOS and those beautiful notifications. The drop down bar makes me weep a little everytime I have to check one. Android developers, steal webOS notifications please!

What was so unified about the look and feel? Once you start downloading aftermarket apps the unified look and feel goes bye bye.

 

[dj ozone]

i like my E4GT a helluva lot but i loved my pre-....This phone feels like a really great handheld computing device...But my palm pre- felt like an extension of my body and mind it felt connected to me...for instance i felt comfy enough with the pre to take it into the tub with me for some bubblebath texting and web browsing lol!...something i would never conceive of doing with my Epic 4G Touch...

I really really really really miss the cards...

 

[rlanza1054]

Agree, with a lot of the statements here.

The one thing I really miss, I just haven't been able to root yet.

On Webos, you only have to turn on developer mode and you were in!

How on earth do you tour this thing, I'm trying to install a Samba app, and it needs SU (superuser) access, do I really need to root to do this?

I'm pulling put my hair!

Rob

PS Its true we were very vocal at PreCentral!

I vowed to make this place jump just as much!

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk

 

[B_Quick]

I too miss my pre, but not that much I'd say I miss webos. I had a centro and then got the pre at launch. I love the epic but switching to android from webos was easy except for the multitasking it's still a little frustrating when I hit the home button forgetting that it won't go into a card lol but I'm getting there. Love the screen, just wish we could have seen this hardware with webos on it but oh well got to live in the now......cheers!

 

[folarino]

i like my E4GT a helluva lot but i loved my pre-....This phone feels like a really great handheld computing device...But my palm pre- felt like an extension of my body and mind it felt connected to me...

My palm pre felt like a piece of crap. Sold it as fast as I could and never looked back.

 

[levan53]

I miss my Pre+. I've had the E4gT for about a week now. I miss webOS, just as previous posts have said. I miss the interactivity of Synergy. I wasn't able to get my calendar off the Pre as all I could find were processes that used Palm Desktop which I no longer had, foolishly trusting Palm Cloud. Looking at having to transfer entry by entry.

 

[androidpirate]

My palm pre felt like a piece of crap. Sold it as fast as I could and never looked back.

Agree with you there, palm pre was a terrible phone hardware wise and it was pretty frustrating to use in general; lacked copy paste, was slow as molasses, regularly ran out of memory, battery life was terrible, selecting text to edit was incredibly frustrating, and the web browser sucked as well.

 

[Unibrow]

I'll happily trade my Palm pre with anyone and some money if you really miss that Pre that much. Screen is NOT scratched on the Pre.

 

[Unibrow]

Agree, with a lot of the statements here.

The one thing I really miss, I just haven't been able to root yet.

On Webos, you only have to turn on developer mode and you were in!

How on earth do you tour this thing, I'm trying to install a Samba app, and it needs SU (superuser) access, do I really need to root to do this?

I'm pulling put my hair!

Rob

PS Its true we were very vocal at PreCentral!

I vowed to make this place jump just as much!

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk

Developer mode is NOTHING like root. Developer mode allowed you to theme and add patches but you couldn't build much less install custom version of the OS. Hell, you couldn't even change the LAUCHER with developer mode.

Developer mode on the Pre is akin to clicking the install apps from unknown box on Android.


also, if you're an ex palm addict try checking out "perfect task switcher." It makes for some nice card like switching. unfortunately, task previews do not work on the epic touch but it's still rather awesome

 

[fofjjsr]

I'd say the best thing to do would be quit using Facebook altogether and switch to Google+!!

 

[rlanza1054]

Developer mode is NOTHING like root. Developer mode allowed you to theme and add patches but you couldn't build much less install custom version of the OS. Hell, you couldn't even change the LAUCHER with developer mode.

Developer mode on the Pre is akin to clicking the install apps from unknown box on Android.

Wow, I wrote that message a long time ago.

Yes, you are correct turning on Developer mode really did nothing, but allowed WebOS Quick Install to gain entry to install all the goodies.

And I have finally rooted my SPH-D710. But have not put a custom ROM on yet. Still don't understand what these custom ROM's do, compared to stock?

I will check out 'perfect task switcher' but for the most part have gotten used to Android.

But yes, still miss true multitasking.

Rob

Rob sent this from his SPH-D710 via Tapatalk

 

[Neruda6000]

I miss my Pre+. I've had the E4gT for about a week now. I miss webOS, just as previous posts have said. I miss the interactivity of Synergy. I wasn't able to get my calendar off the Pre as all I could find were processes that used Palm Desktop which I no longer had, foolishly trusting Palm Cloud. Looking at having to transfer entry by entry.

I synched my WebOS calendar with my Google calendar on my Palm Pre, then just added that account to my E4GT once I made the switch. It was rather seamless. Sure miss synergy, the cards, and notifications - but I have to say I've been enjoying my E4GT.

Can anyone recommend a good email app that sort of keeps all email accounts in one place? Multiple notifications from the GMail app, Yahoo Email app, etc and having to go to each app to read emails is killing me! Consider me an Android noob spoiled by WebOS synergy...

 

[TheMacs]

Can anyone recommend a good email app that sort of keeps all email accounts in one place? Multiple notifications from the GMail app, Yahoo Email app, etc and having to go to each app to read emails is killing me! Consider me an Android noob spoiled by WebOS synergy...

Came from webOS too (Sprint Pre+). Loved it. Android is growing on me though... so many apps!

K-9 Mail seems to be one of the more popular replacements. Give it a test-drive. Disclaimer: I haven't used it (but am considering it).

Good luck!