Replacing HTC touch pro with Palm Pre

[miguelfp1]

I'm pretty sure I won't, but I'm kinda liking the Diamond2 though

im torn on this.... just have to try one myself and see

in honestlly getting sick of winmo crap and M$ isnt doing much about it either

so its Pre or Android

[a_c_s]

Why would installing on this be different than the 755P? The OS? I installed tons of apps on all of my old Palm phones, so unless something about the new OS prevents this, you should be able to...

Originally Posted by ParaSURFore

actually in my opinion the pre's OS looks amazing, i was hooked unti i found a flaw. since it is not a windows mobile phone, i do not believe you can install programs on it. due to this an internet sharing hack is impossible and would have to pay $50 extra for a tethering plan

[EWT]

I'm there once third party apps show up assuming it works as well as it looks so far.

[bestjudge]

I will def switch.

[chronster]

I'm actually surprised at the number of people switching lol

[woody88]

Originally Posted by chronster

I'm actually surprised at the number of people switching lol

why were you surprised? like I said, we have given HTC so much time on fixing the video, and it is still sluggish. WM in general is slow as well. I don't think it has anything to do with "cute" like you said in previous posts, cause if we all care about "cute" we would all get a hello kitty phone, it's about usability. and if we have to see the spinning wm logo while program loads, that is just not necessary. of course, again, I am just speaking on my own experience of wm and mogul and now tp.

and again, no excuse for the crappy usb headphone port. I understand that it is a "business phone" but if you can give the touch HD a 3.5mm port, then why are you ****ing potential future users of TD2, and TP2?

[MoonZ*BabysH]

did you huys know you can run palm OS emulator so that you can use Palm Applications on PPC's running windows? http://www.styletap.com/ i know the palm pre will have Web OS but i just ran across this and it might show you what WebOS applications might end up being.

[Hafrust]

I'm not surprised either. WM has become the new Palm. They have really not done much at all to improve their OS over the last few years. If you peel off the masks that Samsung and HTC have put on their newer WM phones, you still have the old, clunky, non-finger friendly interface. It's going to take a huge improvement on Microsoft's part to get WM where it is sought after by the masses. What surprises me is the amount of people here that think that WM is a hugely popular OS. Your everyday average customer doesn't want to put as much time and effort into their phone as we do. People tend to not want to work that hard at making their phone work efficiently. I seriously doubt the Pre will be similar to the instinct. Palm has a long history in the smartphone/pda world. The problem they ran into is similar to what MS is doing now. It took them forever to overhaul their OS. With the amount of time and resources they have put into their new OS, I'm pretty confident it will be successful.

[caseyatbt]

The main thing that would keep me from even considering it, would be if you have to change your plan. I won't give up my SERO.
After being a PalmOS user until the Touch Pro, I think I'll stay with my TP until a WM6.5 (TouchPro3???) phone comes out someday(hopefully). I admit that I think that WM is clunky and dated, but you can't beat the amount of programs available. I hope for bigger things from 6.5.