First time WinMo - How can you do this faster?

[scidmail]

For the easiest way to dial out - use Voice Command. Hold down the send button (hard button bottom left looks like a phone with ends pointed up) for a couple of seconds. You'll hear a funny beep and see a small microphone appear at the top of the screen. Holding the phone at least 6 inches away from your mouth (more if your voice booms) say "Call firstname lastname at Work" You'll hear it reapeted back. If it's right, say yes and it starts dialing, if it's wrong, say no and try again. You'll get used to this very quickly, it's great when you're driving. No need to look at the screen. If you use a blue tooth headset you should be able to hold down the send button on the headset and do the same thing.

Barb

[FuManChuu]

Hrm, I've got to wait till I have an alert to clear, but hopefully ill see that menu you are talking about.

Thanks for the tips on a better way to get to text... while I really don't like sliding through touch flo, functions including in the first 5 icons (so I dont have to scroll) dont really bother me...

Anyone got anymore productivity hints? Way to do things faster?

[FuManChuu]

EDIT: That touch screen dialing method is completely not what I was looking for, but a wonderful substitute.... I'll have to adjust the brain a bit... but I think that could suit me perfectly

wow, edit fail D;

[mxl180]

I'm also coming from the centro and feel the same. I'm keeping the touch pro. While the centro is awsome, time is not on palm's side.

Palm will ditch the palm os soon. The centro gave it a wheel chair to keep it rolling. Time to move on.

[m4j2t]

Another centro convert here. Centro was my first palm os after several wm devices. I didn't realize how much I liked the speed of the centro, and all the quirks of this thing--like lag ending up opening the wrong program--are kinda buggin me. I came back to WM because this phone is the complete package (FINALLY), and people convinced me that this device could push the windows. I have to admit I am a little dissapointed on how clumsey it make me feel, but I've only had it a couple days. I'll just have to get to cust-o-mizen.

[MeTA-4z]

As you can see from my phone history, I have just recently come from my 700p, but I did have the 6700 and 6800...then got my Treo, it broke, had to go back to my 6800 and then back to my Treo, until I finally got my TP.

I hated the 6700 and thought the 6800 was going to be better, in ways it was, but overall it was pretty much the same...I loved the simplicity and ease of my Treo, but the TP has re-instilled my confidence in WinMo, especially with TF3D...so I feel you on the comfort of your Treo, but TF3D adds more depth and intuitiveness to WinMo, let's not even mention the tweaks/rom's being made for this phone, functionality will be thru the roof...

P.S. I love it stock believe it or not...

[stroths]

You have two things going against you coming from a PalmOS Treo to a Touch Pro or similar HTC model.

1. The form factor is completely different. You have to get use to doing things on screen or sliding out the keyboard. The Treo is the winner in 1 handedness here.

2. You are changing operating systems from a very simple one to a much more powerful, but less user friendly one.

Luckily, I only made those changes one at a time as I moved from a 700p to a 700wx. I was ready to throw that 700wx against a wall because it was so much more of a pain to use than the PalmOS I was use to. However, after I got use to it, I realized that I would never go back since PalmOS is so outdated. I later moved to the HTC 6800 (Mogul) which took a little getting use to, but I already knew how to use WM very well at that point. I do miss the one-handedness of the Treo form factor at times, but I really love the slide out keyboard better now.

PalmOS is nice because its simple and as long as you don't do a lot of mods to it, it works pretty well. Have you considered moving to a 800 or some other WM Treo?

Regardless of what you do, give WM some time as its not something that you can just pick up. If PalmOS works better for you then you should consider going back. I got my wife a Touch Pro, but she may go back to her BlackBerry because it just works for her.

[profroopchan]

I am now in love with this TP. I still have my Centro, and I switch back my account to my Centro in the nights when I want to talk to my girlfriend and play with my TP at the same time. I can not be installing/tweaking while talking to her when I need to do resets and stuff. I still love my Centro, but I do love gadgets, and I am having a blast tweaking/installing stuff to this thing. I am getting better at finding what I want now, and I have discovered how wonderful voice dial is. I still prefer the keyboard on the Centro, and it is still taking me some time to get used to the TP's keyboard. I still make mistakes, but my speed is improving as I use it more.

[ott]

Question: How do you increase the speed of thumbing through your SMS in TF? Instead of the usual 5-8 second delay that allows you to "read" the SMS, is there a reg edit that allows you to have it say its "unread" for only a second?