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• As great an idea as Synergy is, I have no intention of putting my primary PIM data anywhere in the 'cloud' - my desktop IS the authoritative source of my notes, tasks and contacts, with my Treo being only a portable extension of that, so a lack of desktop sync would be a definite deal breaker on the Pre; it would probably be the only one, but it's a whopper. I have yet to see a drag-and-drop function that will deal with those. What I think is short-sighted is the assumption that cloud/desktop should be "either-or"; where's the "synergy" in that? In reply to: "We ask Palm: Where's HotSync and Palm Desktop to go with Pre?"

  January 29, 2009

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• Re: #1 - ALL of my Treos have automatically defaulted to numbers and special characters when used for numeric-only fields. hardware or not, it's easy
  Re: #2 - With Pre, you probably don't need to turn the phone AT ALL, as you'll most likely already have it in portrait mode. The only disadvantage to this keyboard is in typing URLs if you're viewing a web page in landscape mode.
  Re: #3 - The iPhone may be physically reliable, but for getting ACCURACY, I'll take the physical keyboard over a virtual one every time. And having used Treos since they came out, I can tell you from experience (something I doubted before I actually used them) that the portrait-style keyboard is both easy to use and accurate; I can type entire reports using the keyboard on my Treo 680 with accuracy that matches that on a full-size keyboard, and nearly half the speed. Plus, the portrait keyboard can easily be used with one hand, something that the landscape keyboard can't, and I doubt the virtual keyboard will match either the speed or accuracy.
  Re: #4 - You must be on dial-up to watch the streaming video - what I saw was speed that easily matched my experiences on an iPhone
  Re: #5 - No, they WON'T be web apps - they'll be locally-installed apps that can, in many cases, access the hardware directly, depending upon what the app is designed for.
  Re: #6 - already answered.
  Re: #7 - a matter of taste; I fail to see how something that is mostly a black organic rectangle with smoothed corners, with virtually no details at all, can be "ugly" - personally, I find it elegant, rather than over-styled like the iPhone.
  Re: #8 - What you call "attention to details" may be, in fact, actual engineering decisions. Maybe you just have to admit it's not what you're used to, rather than claiming it's deficient. For some folks, that's a hard thing to figure out; opinions aren't facts. In reply to: "Answers to burning Palm Pre questions"

  January 28, 2009

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