Jumping ship!

Exil3d · #1 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009, 11:30 PM

Well hello there! I am considering buying a Pre and abandon those cripple HTC devices. Pro2 was the last nail in their coffin! I am wondering how customizable is the Palm OS. Is it as near as customizable as WM? Can it be hacked ,tweaked and modded? And last question in which is the must important question, can it be activated in a SERO account?

Compusmurf · #2 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009, 11:44 PM

I did. LOL I wanted the TP2 and when they raised the price and didn't REALLY include any real new features, I blew it off and went with the Pre.

The pre is NEW. Very nice, but you better expect growing pains. If you know linux at all and are willing to be daring, you can rip apart most of the OS looking for goodies and contribute to the growing list of hacks, apps, tweaks, etc.

About the SERO, I have no clue.

I can say 1 additional thing. Palm has had more updates to their OS in the last 3 months than Win Mo has had in like 3 years. At least Palm is taking it serious and trying....

**mlin** · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 12:06 AM

I currently go back and forth between my Diamond and Pre, though lately I have spent more time with the Pre. It is a great device with a lot of developments and interest spurring from its infancy. As of now, I am so far impressed with the level of customization. More and more tweaks are popping up each day and precentral has officially opened a theme thread with a variety of custom themes to choose from, prethemer has even more. I've had a lot of fun with it so far, and its very stable.

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Originally Posted by Compusmurf

I can say 1 additional thing. Palm has had more updates to their OS in the last 3 months than Win Mo has had in like 3 years. At least Palm is taking it serious and trying....

What do you honestly expect? There are now 2 proprietary devices running WebOS, both in their infancy. Updates are not only very necessary due to the lack of or poor implementation of certain features (ie cut, copy, and paste), but easy considering the low number of devices. Compare this to WinMo which is built for likely a hundred devices all with varying screen size, keypad configurations, touch screen vs non-touch screen, etc. Makes frequent updating on the behalf of Microsoft rather difficult.

JBundyLive · #4 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mlin

... WinMo which is built for likely a hundred devices all with varying screen size, keypad configurations, touch screen vs non-touch screen, etc. Makes frequent updating on the behalf of Microsoft rather difficult.

Which is why Microsoft (not just WinMo) is villified. Microsoft is the hoe that device makers' pass around. Think about it. "Hoes are for everybody." lol ... the chastity of the few "closed" mobile OS's prevent the volatile instability seen in WinMo devices. If only children were proactively raised this way

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Biggnaa20 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-08-2009, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mlin

I currently go back and forth between my Diamond and Pre, though lately I have spent more time with the Pre. It is a great device with a lot of developments and interest spurring from its infancy. As of now, I am so far impressed with the level of customization. More and more tweaks are popping up each day and precentral has officially opened a theme thread with a variety of custom themes to choose from, prethemer has even more. I've had a lot of fun with it so far, and its very stable.

What do you honestly expect? There are now 2 proprietary devices running WebOS, both in their infancy. Updates are not only very necessary due to the lack of or poor implementation of certain features (ie cut, copy, and paste), but easy considering the low number of devices. Compare this to WinMo which is built for likely a hundred devices all with varying screen size, keypad configurations, touch screen vs non-touch screen, etc. Makes frequent updating on the behalf of Microsoft rather difficult.

I do agree that some of the updates are needed due to pushing the product faster than it should have been (Palm execs are on record saying the phone should have been released 6 months after it was). BUT the responsiveness of Palm has still be stellar.

Winmo took 4 years to move from 5 (May 2005) to 6.5 (officially Oct 2009). you be the judge if the improvements in usability of the OS was worth a 4 year wait. For me it wasn't.

I have to disagree with your point about the fact that it took so long because of the number of devices on the market. The customization of Winmo has traditionally fell on the OEM's (think TouchFLo, Touchwiz and other User interfaces) and carriers to implement. Winmo has been focused on creating an OS only. As Ballmer continually says, There will be NO windows phone. So if anything Winmo should be able change faster than the companies that need to upgrade their hardware as well.

nb

**yearn** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-08-2009, 05:34 PM

I played with a Pre a few weeks ago and really liked it. While I dont think its for me, I did enjoy playing with it untill I had to use that terrible Keyboard!
Has anyone released a SIP keyboard for it yet. I think that would make it a much more user friendly device

**aceracer24** · #7 (**permalink**) 10-09-2009, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by yearn

I played with a Pre a few weeks ago and really liked it. While I dont think its for me, I did enjoy playing with it untill I had to use that terrible Keyboard!
Has anyone released a SIP keyboard for it yet. I think that would make it a much more user friendly device

Ya, after having a TP, the keyboard on the Pre sucks. I'd love to tell you that you get used to it but I still haven't lol.

Yes there is now a virtual keyboard but it is more of a hack and although it is usable, it's not up to par with what you would find on even the original Touch. It is getting there though.

IFMISM · #8 (**permalink**) 09-30-2009, 11:55 PM

The pre is a wonderful device. It does multitasking like no other. unfortunately for me it did not fit my needs. it fell short on quite a few issues, but i am not here to bash this device. i will prolly get the 2nd version of it, but now i have to go back to wm for work purposes.
To those that have to pre and love it i can definetly understand why, but as a work device it falls short for now. but still a great device none the less

**darren.wlsn1** · #9 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009, 12:08 AM

sero is a no go. http://www.prethinking.com/home/2009...-palm-pre.html

nilsm · #10 (**permalink**) 10-12-2009, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by IFMISM

The pre is a wonderful device. It does multitasking like no other. unfortunately for me it did not fit my needs. it fell short on quite a few issues, but i am not here to bash this device. i will prolly get the 2nd version of it, but now i have to go back to wm for work purposes.
To those that have to pre and love it i can definetly understand why, but as a work device it falls short for now. but still a great device none the less

I own both and agree with you here.

I'm really interested to hear from you which cons turned you away from the pre. Info like this really helps people.