[jbearamus]

Originally Posted by mike20pr

I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I'm done... Selling the Pre

I have a love-hate relationship with winmo but I'm gonna jump back to it. I realize the Pre is a first gen device but to have it function like a winmo device is too far away... Here is my personal list

1. We have a cpu nearly identical to the iphone 3gs but no hardware acceleration in 2d rendering, or any for that case, its all done by software thust choppy animations and taking a toll on battery and heat. (why have such a strong cpu then?) and since the SDK (crappy btw) and OS itself is web based thust it only uses javascript or similar languages, you really can't do OpenGL to make it communicate with the GPU so its touch to see this soon. It not only affects games which doesn't bother me, but rather the overall performance of the device

2. Back to the sdk, its so neutered that atm its only limited to no better than web widgets with no hardware support and who knows when Palm will release another one? A year? Too far off...

3. No native web downloading / uploading, and a file manager to support it. (you have a mass storage device but no way to universally access your files? I'm so used to downloading music albums via RAR, ZIP, and also decompress them on the device as well as movies, pics etc.) That this alone could be a dealbreaker

4. Neutered copy / paste (why make such a big deal against the iphone to have it this poorly executed)

now I realize that some of this is software but to have this fixed will look like a WebOS 2.0 and I see this too far off for me to stick around cuz I need a lot of these features now not then... I'm prolly gonna wait till september to see how the app catalog rolls out and the rumored WebOS update, so unless it fixes a lot of missing key features I'm getting rid of it to get me a touch pro 2 cuz its the first time I regret selling my laptop back when had my mogul (touch pro after that) which filled all my mobile computing needs despite occasional winmo gripes and issues and now with the Pre I feel like I have a fancy phone rather than a PDA or pocketPC.... Time will tell

many valid points and for a lot of the same reasons i'm jumping to the Hero next month. I may give WebOS another chance later but right now i'm liking the hero. as for the #s 3 & 4, those are supposed to be addressed in WebOS 1.2 which will be out sooner rather than later however with it being pushed back once already who knows when it'll drop