Palm: Pre, webOS & app discussion
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Hold it's own in the market generally. Looks like most people haven't heard of Palm and never will...
johnnymarrsbars
www.friendrock.co.uk
i'm in the market for a new smartphone. i've had 2 iPhones, which overall are pretty good but the reliability just isn't there. the browser crashes quite a bit and the mail app doesn't always alert me of new messages. there was one time where it spontaneously deleted all my text messages as well. nice..
thing is, i'm a mac user and will want to be using my phone as a music player as well (i use iTunes).
at work we have an exchange server but i'll also want to use it to sync my personal contacts and calendars over the air as well (mobileme at the moment, but apparently google do the same thing for free?).
basically what i use on my phone is email, calendars, messaging, web browsing and a bit of facebook and twitter. the lack of apps in the palm catalogue doesn't really bother me too much as i don't want to play games or have an app on my phone that simulates drinking a pint or whatever.
really unsure what to do!
blackberrys are out as i really hate their UI. looks about 10 years behind apple or palm.
thing is, i'm a mac user and will want to be using my phone as a music player as well (i use iTunes).
at work we have an exchange server but i'll also want to use it to sync my personal contacts and calendars over the air as well (mobileme at the moment, but apparently google do the same thing for free?).
basically what i use on my phone is email, calendars, messaging, web browsing and a bit of facebook and twitter. the lack of apps in the palm catalogue doesn't really bother me too much as i don't want to play games or have an app on my phone that simulates drinking a pint or whatever.
really unsure what to do!
blackberrys are out as i really hate their UI. looks about 10 years behind apple or palm.
My blackberry 9700 is brilliant. I don't give a fuck that the interface looks a little dated - it just works. My only complaint is the lack of a decent web browser.
johnnymarrsbars
www.friendrock.co.uk
i know - i've found this on my iPhone and its a pain.
can the pre handle more than one exchange account?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I use the gmail push with my iPhone and it works perfectly, as well as a Blackberry.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
I could be wrong but to connect to Exchange like that you have to negotiate a licence from Microsoft. Two concurrent connections would I assume cost more.
You'll be charging it overnight, every night.
live_jayeola
/me is jayeola
Even if you reduce the screen brightness it'll be about two days max. The minute you install aps and start using the email, you will get a day. I carry around a cable and plug it into the office, home or my gf's machine to charge it.
The battery on my blackberry is brilliant. If I watch out for battery usage, I get around a week of charge. Usually I listen to music, use the internet and a few apps, so I get around 2 - 3 days.
That's incredible for a smartphone. Pre and iphone can't get near that, wonder how RIM do it.
According to the Blackberry website:
Battery & Battery Life (of the Blackberry 9700)
* Battery: 1500 mAh removable/rechargeable cryptographic Lithium cell
* Talk Time: Up to 6 hours (GSM and UMTS)
* Standby Time: Up to 21 days/504 hours (GSM), Up to 17 days/408 hours (UMTS)
* Music Playback Time: Up to 38 hours
That's probably correct, but I use Wi-fi for UMA calls at home, so it'll use up way more power.
Battery & Battery Life (of the Blackberry 9700)
* Battery: 1500 mAh removable/rechargeable cryptographic Lithium cell
* Talk Time: Up to 6 hours (GSM and UMTS)
* Standby Time: Up to 21 days/504 hours (GSM), Up to 17 days/408 hours (UMTS)
* Music Playback Time: Up to 38 hours
That's probably correct, but I use Wi-fi for UMA calls at home, so it'll use up way more power.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It's no mystery, the BB is a great emailer but still a very low tech phone, no touch screen, small screen area, no apps that really push the phone and also no 3G...
Mines got 3G and Wi-fi. There are quite a few apps around now with 3D games coming soon (obviously nowhere near as many as the iPhone though), and while the screen is only 2.4", it's also higher resolution than the iPhone and Palm Pre.
WiFi is lower power than cellular.
Really??
On my old Windows Mobile phone, wi-fi used to drain the battery like mad.
live_jayeola
/me is jayeola
Bloody hell after hearing stories of good battery life I may be tempted to ditch the iPhone. Sometimes I wish I could use a phone as a "dedicated talking to people device", like I used to and not for the net, emails, photos, sms, music, PDA...
I wanted it all, but didn't care about apps, so went for the blackberry. It's great so far, but I'm desperate for them to release the WebKit browser, so we can get some Palm Pre/iPhone style browsing.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
So can I, its one of the few advantages of resistive touch screens.
Do you have time usage stats on your phone? If so, it be good to post up the numbers, having been reset after a full charge.
grit
an ugly force for good
WiFi is lower power than cellular.
Are you sure? Even with an active connection established?
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