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Any Former Palm Pre Owners? Comparing Features

Swipe gestures and cards. Oh how I miss those. I still catch myself trying to swipe things off the screen to delete. I hated the hardware until I overclocked to 800mhz and it felt alive again. One thing I will NOT miss is the physical keyboard. With the size of my hands, I couldn't type on that thing worth a damn. I loved my iphones keyboard and the evo is even better. Add 4G soon in Denver, video chat, and infinitely more apps and really in the end I won't miss the pre. If the old webOS designer now on android could throw swiping into android I wouldn't be angry though...
 
i had a pre, and was very excited to get it when it came out.
and i really liked to swipe to delete emails...etc..

but overall i hated that phone and returned it in 2 weeks.
the evo feels solid and is extremely fast.....but now im just having to learn the whole android way of doing things.
but im now coming from blackberry world.
 
toeknee76 said:
i had a pre, and was very excited to get it when it came out.
and i really liked to swipe to delete emails...etc..

but overall i hated that phone and returned it in 2 weeks.
the evo feels solid and is extremely fast.....but now im just having to learn the whole android way of doing things.
but im now coming from blackberry world.
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Yea i had a blackberry before i switched over to android phones back in November. There alot different but when it comes down to it the only things id rather have from blackberry are the incredible battery(nothing can beat a blackberry's battery life) life and the amazing keyboard blackberry's are known to have other then that after you learn everything and find all the apps that fit you Android OS kill blackberry in ALMOST every way. I really do love blackberry(i still have my tour 9630 as my second line) but if i had to chose one over the other id pick Android any day over my blackberry.
 
Long press on home is not quite as nice as the cards but it's been working well for me.

I really miss the notes app. The interface for that was so simple and efficient.

I'm just getting into using the calendar on the Evo and I truly despise it. I can't even figure out how to change a color for one of my calendars. I really miss the ease of the Pre calendar. Any recommendations would be appreciated (tried gemini calendar and do not like).
 
wubbie075 said:
Long press on home is not quite as nice as the cards but it's been working well for me.

I really miss the notes app. The interface for that was so simple and efficient.

I'm just getting into using the calendar on the Evo and I truly despise it. I can't even figure out how to change a color for one of my calendars. I really miss the ease of the Pre calendar. Any recommendations would be appreciated (tried gemini calendar and do not like).
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This is huge for me b/c I have my Gmail calendar set up w/ "sub calendars" for work, family appts, etc. On Pre, super easy to move an event from one of these to another. Is this supported on EVO?
 
You guys need to DL QuickDesk, its in the market. It really helps with multi tasking. Maybe not as good as the "Deck of Cards" (which I love), but its great. EM recommended it to me and its very helpful.
 
x081967 said:
The only thing I miss is the "card" system where you can flip between the open apps and close them by swiping them away. I'm really surprised there's no way to close an app aside from using a task-killer app.

I'm so glad my time with the Pre is over.
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These are my feelings, too.
 
Pre-less since the Evo launch, and after these 3 months, I really can't think of one thing I miss about it. I did at first, but now the Pre is just a distant memory :)

Ok, maybe I *still* miss the Touchstone. But in every other way (for me), the Evo trumps the Pre.
 
things i miss about the pre

- gestures
- card system
- touch stone

things i don't miss about the pre

- wishing i was able to change notification sounds
- wishing i was able to record video
- paying $549 for a phone
- when i have a incoming phone call i pray i will be able to answer it without the phone sending them to voicemail
- having the phone shut off every time i go to put it in my pocket
- feeling like my phone is going to fly apart
- having my battery last all day one day, then 4 hours the next


the list could go on, in short the 4 months i had with my palm pre made me hate that phone more than any other phone i have ever owned
 
I had the Pre for a year, just switched to Evo a few weeks ago. Like most of the posters here, I do miss the WebOS UI. I especially miss the notifications on Pre...every now and then I'll miss something on my Evo (can't someone write a better notifications app for Droid?). Thought I'd miss Touchstone, but to tell the truth I like charging the Evo on its kickstand while running a deskclock or pictures app...I get a lot of comments on that. But the number one reason I'm sticking with Droid...the apps! The Pre app catalog was pathetic...I mean how many tip calculators and calorie counters do we need? The Droid catalog continues to amaze me...especially Google apps like Sky, Earth, and Goggles (one of my favorite bar games is taking pictures of bar signs and seeing if Goggles can recognize them). And it's very true: once you get used to Evo's beautiful screen, you can't go back to Pre...even the iPhone looks tiny to me. I guess size does matter... :)
 
TBH there really isn't much I miss about the Pre. I wish I never wasted any money on it in the first place.

I loved the Touchstone, but that was only because plugging in a regular USB cable was a PITA.

I loved the slide notifications, but I get so many emails and texts that they ended up being annoying so side away every 2 seconds.

The screen was tiny.
The rails and sliders were crap.
The keyboard was so tiny, it was almost unusable.
The search function was annoying to use because you had to slide the keyboard out to use it.
The proximity sensors never worked right on 3 different phones.
I was constantly hanging up on people.
The curved back made it impossible to set the phone down on a sticky mat in the car.
No default quick call app?

And the one thing I hated about the phone more than anything else was waiting for updates. For a company that only really supported one production phone I expected to get fixes and software updates in general WAY faster.
 
atistang said:
- having my battery last all day one day, then 4 hours the next
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I'll never forgive the Pre for crapping out on me when I needed it the most. Just a mean, vindictive phone, that Pre. At least if my Evo is draining the battery fast (usually only when it's fighting for a signal), it doesn't just surprise me by being dead when I take it out of my pocket.
 
jrstinkfish said:
I'll never forgive the Pre for crapping out on me when I needed it the most. Just a mean, vindictive phone, that Pre. At least if my Evo is draining the battery fast (usually only when it's fighting for a signal), it doesn't just surprise me by being dead when I take it out of my pocket.
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yeah, i remember one day taking the phone off the charger at 6am, going to work and at 9am break going to check my emails, i had a low battery warning, in 3 hours it went from 100% to 12%

then i was trying to buy a house i figured i better get a phone that would answer calls so i bought a hero for half the price, and it was a much more stable phone
 
I miss synergy and the combined mailboxes.

Tried to forward an email to a text message and couldn't do it the other day.

I also prefer the cards and swiping to the long press of the home button.
 
I miss WebOS completely. I personally think it's a much better OS, hands down.

I do *NOT* miss the hardware itself. I love the hardware of my EVO - though to be honest I do have a funky miscolored bright spot on the LCD display of my EVO, it's been there since day 1. Just haven't gotten around to getting it exchanged, and I'm afraid I'll get a 2.2 unrootable phone - so I'm waiting on that.

Once WebOS comes out w/ some new sleek hardware, I may sell the EVO and switch back. It was honestly much simpler to use - very slick and quick. The synergy/universal search was awesome.
 
evotitans said:
In all honesty, the only things Im starting to miss is swipe to delete and the actual cards themselves.

With that said, I absolutely love the EVO......wait til you watch a movie that is atleast 720p on it, it is soooo beautiful.
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Funny I'm quoting myself, and this still remains the same.

Don't think I'd even remember how to use a Pre any more.
 
xtravbx said:
I miss WebOS completely. I personally think it's a much better OS, hands down.

I do *NOT* miss the hardware itself. I love the hardware of my EVO - though to be honest I do have a funky miscolored bright spot on the LCD display of my EVO, it's been there since day 1. Just haven't gotten around to getting it exchanged, and I'm afraid I'll get a 2.2 unrootable phone - so I'm waiting on that.

Once WebOS comes out w/ some new sleek hardware, I may sell the EVO and switch back. It was honestly much simpler to use - very slick and quick. The synergy/universal search was awesome.
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Ditto. I still have my Pre for my second line. I was checking out PreCentral today to see if there is any new Palm phone on the horizon. They are expecting a phone sometime in October, rumors as usual.
 
1) I miss the multi-tasking (freaking numbers youve entered on the phone keypad are erased if you go to another app)

2) Mail (I hate having to download pics, I hate it not defaulting to a zoomed out view, I just prefer the way the pre and iphone handle email

3) Multi-touch responsiveness, just not as good

4) Video editing software

5) Closing apps

6) Web browser and web browser zoom

thats about all I miss

touchstone! how could i forget!!
 
dan330 said:
yeah.. i hear you.. the swipe and card system is great.

It is important in WebOS and WinM to close apps so that the phone dont run out of mem.
But in Android.. the system takes care of it for you. that is how it is designed but of course sometimes the plan dont work right. Task Killer is only needed when you find a mis-behaving apps. 99% off the time.. forget about it.

There are apps that let you adjust the internal android memory manager, so that android is more aggressive in closing apps to free more memory for you. I think it requires you to have root. When the custom ROMs come out for EVO, most developers will have this tweeked for you.
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I do wish, and am actually surprised, that a developer hasn't created an app or home replacement that mimics the Pre's cards. I know that Android is supposed to automatically close apps running in the background as necessary, but it fails miserably many times.

Sometimes there are so many apps left running in the background that my Evo is sooooo p a i n f u l l y - s l o w. I'll pick an app and it is churning and trying, like the little engine that could, but it's fighting an uphill battle sometimes that it can't win.

I end up having to use Advanced Task Killer, even though I've read upteen threads on many Android and Evo forums stating you don't need to use a task killer.
 
Super Noob said:
I do wish, and am actually surprised, that a developer hasn't created an app or home replacement that mimics the Pre's cards. I know that Android is supposed to automatically close apps running in the background as necessary, but it fails miserably many times.
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It maybe a patent issue. cant copy what they created and use to differentiate themselves.
 
Wrxdrunkie said:
1) I miss the multi-tasking (freaking numbers youve entered on the phone keypad are erased if you go to another app)

2) Mail (I hate having to download pics, I hate it not defaulting to a zoomed out view, I just prefer the way the pre and iphone handle email

3) Multi-touch responsiveness, just not as good

4) Video editing software

5) Closing apps

6) Web browser and web browser zoom

thats about all I miss




touchstone! how could i forget!!
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the pre did have a pretty good web browser, but i think dolphin is a better browser
 
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