The Palm Pre: 8 GB Must Be Nice

I’ve just realized that the Palm Pre, with 8 GB memory, has 25,500% more memory than my Treo 650. That’s the actual math; I’m not kidding.

[My 2005-era Treo 650 — which I still use — has 32 MB memory, of which 24 MB of which is user-accessible.]

(For those curious, AppleInsider has a pretty good roundup of the major Palm Pre reviews that are already out. The reviews from Engadget and Pre Central are two of my favorites so far.)

11 thoughts on “The Palm Pre: 8 GB Must Be Nice

  1. Are you going to upgrade? I’ve been looking at new phones and I’m sad to see PalmOS is pretty much dead. Looking at a Nokia E71 myself.

  2. Considering that Palm has basically EOLed the Treo line, I think I’ll have to upgrade one way or another. At this point, I’ve mostly narrowed it down to the Palm Pre and the 3rd-gen iPhone that’s supposed to be announced in a couple days.

    On one hand, the iPhone certainly has more apps, but in fairness to Palm, they’ve only just released their app store. What it may come down to, in the end, is which phone offers a better transition from my Treo 650. In particular, I’ve built up a collection of probably a couple hundred memos and I want to make sure that I can port those over.

    Disappointingly, I believe the Pre doesn’t have categories in its memo app, which puts a bit of a kink in things. (At the moment, I have about 10 categories set up on my Treo, including “Personal” and “Business”; when you have as many memos as I do, it really helps to be able to organize one’s memos into separate groups.)

    Then again, since the 3rd-gen iPhone hasn’t come out yet, I’m not sure if it’ll fare any better. One advantage it may have, potentially, is that with its vibrant development community, perhaps some 3rd-party developer might implement a memo organizing/searching app that may fit what I need.

  3. I just realized you’re on T-Mobile, so I guess you won’t be going to a Pre unless you plan to change providers. Looks like T-Mobile and AT&T use different 3G frequencies (and both are different from what Europe uses), so I don’t know what T-Mobile’s 3G phone options look like.

  4. I was thinking about an iPhone but it has limitations that I don’t like (lack of tethering is a big one, although there may be an app out there to do it if you jailbreak the phone). I’ve also read that the reception isn’t very good. Anxious to see what Apple brings on Monday.

    I’m currently using an old non-smartphone (Nokia 6230) and a Palm Tungsten T. Apparently Palm not only EOLed the Treo, they killed the whole PalmOS product line (including standlone PDAs). My Tungsten is showing its age and so I guess I need to give in and go with a smartphone.

    I use a few categories for my Memos too, I’ll have to look into what my options would be on the Nokia E71 I’m considering. I really only use my Palm for calendar, memos, and a few games these days.

  5. As far as tethering goes, unfortunately I believe that’s a limitation imposed by the carrier(s) as neither the iPhone (AT&T) nor the Pre (Sprint) support tethering.

    For what it’s worth, I too mostly use my Palm for the calendar and memos (and a shopping-list app), but from what I can tell, it appears that Palm’s calendar & memo apps happen to have been some of the most flexible around. (On the calendar-side, for instance, Palm has always impressed me with the various repeat-options that it offers, such as “repeat on the 3rd Tuesday of each month”.)

  6. AT&T allows tethering on other phones (I’m doing it now on my 6230), but Apple doesn’t include the right Bluetooth profile for it.

    Palm’s calendar is very flexible. iCal seems to do most of the same, which is a plus for the iPhone since at least you could build the complicated stuff on the desktop and sync it. I imagine the Pre will have plenty of good options, eventually, as long as the phone takes off. And there is an app out there that will emulate Classic PalmOS on the Pre.

  7. FYI, the rumors are the updated iPhone coming tomorrow will support tethering. Anxious to see what else they have in store for us!

  8. As far as the iPhone and the idea that “you could build the complicated stuff on the desktop and sync it”, is it the case that the iPhone doesn’t let you enter (complicated) calendar entries on the device?

  9. I’ve never used the calendar functionality on an iPhone, I have just read that PalmOS had complicated recurrence functionality that most other PDAs don’t. It’s possible that since iCal does it, the iPhone does too, but you’d have to try one and see probably.

  10. I’m planning on the new iPhone as well. I’ve got an AT&T Tilt (windows mobile) but my work ironically better supports the iPhone than WM (since more docs seem to have the iphone). I too would like to know the calendar functionality on the iPhone as that is one of the major uses I have for my current smartphone.

  11. I’ve had my Pre given that shortly after release and am glad to get (by means of this forum) that I can now set a ring tone on incoming text messages and can lookup through e-mails and this kind of. Now is there any hope for an upcoming release by which I can research my calendar? Would make my employment very much much easier, locating dates of final appointments. No other complaints, except that yesterday I used to be in and out of Sprint program (not unusual). I consider I had been roaming, and looked at my calendar. Every thing inside calendar was one hour earlier than what I had input. The clock was just one hour early as nicely. I was afraid to death–then, once we got back into Sprint assistance again, everything was normalized. Has this happened to any individual else?? Seeking forward to answers, but please don’t forget, I’m no techie and speak English in lieu of technospeak.

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