So how is everybody liking their new phone?

[rmingee]

What did the card system for app selection do exactly?

You could quickly flip through all of the running apps like a deck of cards, and do one of 2 things with each:

1) tap to make it the currently active app
2) fling it up to close it

It sounds like a minor thing, but I typically had 3-5 things running at once, and it was extremely fast to navigate between them. It would also let you keep multiple browsers open, and I'm sure there's a way to do that on Android (perhaps with a non-stock browser), but with it intergated into app selection it was just really convenient.

I also liked the notifications, which were a little more convenient to show/hide than on Android, and you could selectively dismiss them very easily by flinging them off to the side.

I may well find all of this eventually on Android, but it was all there "out of the box" on the Pre. This phone is a better choice for me overall, but I continue to believe Palm is the king of usability.

-- robert

 

[drexappeal]

You could quickly flip through all of the running apps like a deck of cards, and do one of 2 things with each:

1) tap to make it the currently active app
2) fling it up to close it

It sounds like a minor thing, but I typically had 3-5 things running at once, and it was extremely fast to navigate between them. It would also let you keep multiple browsers open, and I'm sure there's a way to do that on Android (perhaps with a non-stock browser), but with it intergated into app selection it was just really convenient.

I also liked the notifications, which were a little more convenient to show/hide than on Android, and you could selectively dismiss them very easily by flinging them off to the side.

I may well find all of this eventually on Android, but it was all there "out of the box" on the Pre. This phone is a better choice for me overall, but I continue to believe Palm is the king of usability.

-- robert

For the currently running apps, just long press on the Home button and a popup will come up showing 6 of the most recently used apps. Other than that, I'm not sure if there's anything that would run like the one you used on WebOS. Others may know, but I'm not aware of an app that does that.

The pull-down notification bar hides the notifications, if you don't want a widget on one of the homescreens, but not sure that's what you're going for here. It'd be good to find out if there's an app that does this on Android because I think I'd use that as well. Either way, on the pull-down notification bar, you can clear all your notifications, if you choose to dismiss them, but I can see how that'd be annoying if you don't want to dismiss all of them.