Palm Pre Fact Sheets, User Guides Leak out

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Dieter Bohn | Fri, 29 May 2009 3:34 pm EDT |

Mahootzki points us to Coal's post over at Sprint Gurus leaking a bunch of Palm Pre box documents in PDF form. We have all the (heavily watermarked) action after the break!

Leaving aside the feeling that it's relatively difficult to distinguish between a manual and three different kinds of 'guides,' we're feeling pretty happy about the full user guide. It's full of crunchy tidbits -- some new and some not -- like:

Synchronization of Facebook and Google accounts is scheduled to happen every 15 minutes. (we hear that Gmail is IMAP-idle-sytle push, but that's still unconfirmed)
You hold down the orange button to switch to moving the cursor around character by character, you hold the shift key to go into text selection mode.
If you're 'throwing' items to the right off-screen to delete them (as with the notifications area, for example) and you get a delete confirmation message, you can just throw a 2nd one off screen to confirm it. Very fast!
Notifications for Operating System updates and 3rd party application updates are automatic and give you "install now" and "install later" options - Plus "Install All" and "Install Free" for 3rd party apps.
Palm will offer "Palm Music Assistant" to aid in transferring music over USB from the Pre to your computer.
Confirmation that you can view DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and PDF
You can switch the online backup service off or switch it to manual as well as delete backups.
You can switch the "full swipe" gesture from two different behaviors -- switching between apps or just 'back'
MP3 ringtones are in full effect, but it uses 'the first few seconds of a song' instead of letting you pick.
Removing and re-attaching the battery cover takes up no fewer than 4 pages, so it's apparently not easy.