Palm wants to know: how does your smartphone help you in your community? 29

gasp* life besides living for the palm pad! I like this idea! Gooooooooooo Palm!

What,you are crazy. Who would devote any time to anything beyond their phone!

I use palm to keep track of the weather. I use my palm for navigation purposes. I use my palm for keeping track of my daily task. I use my palm to keep track of my calender week so I don't commit to other schedule things going on. I use my palm to listen to music at work using pandora. I like using my palm to capture important funny pictures or videos. I like to text family and friends to keep communication open and relationships strong wether I text or use facebook. I keep up with daily email when I'm on the go. I enjoy reading my favorite blogs, sites, and last not least keep up with reading my scriptures on my bible app. This is usually daily except I don't take videos and pics everyday. That's what I use my palm pre for daily other than making calls, surfing the net and youtube video watching. I don't have much time for games all though I play those when I don't have to drive, and I go on trips.

I guess I will jump into this one. I am president of a not-for-profit youth soccer club, and my Pre has been a BIG part of keeping track of things, holding information needed while on the soccer fields, emailing, picture taking, etc.

I use my PRE to do research to help VETs gain VA benefits from exposure to Agent Orange. Looks like I may have found enough data & resources to help about 800,000 VETs who prior to this did not even know they might be eligible. Lots more research to do & many more VETs to Help. Thanks to My PalmPRE I can do research and forward data from just about anywhere!
(Prior to my PRE I had to find places to link into a free wireless network or drink lots of Starbucks coffee.....)

Rotary club? I belong to rx8club.cm, so close enough right?

haha thats cool palm is gonna use some of you precentral people in their next round of commercials!!

I use my phone to help run my charities by organizing my schedules, having Synergy absorb all my information, and much more. Though it is only a small part in a big picture, every part is valuable...

As member of the presbytery of a perish I am organising my appointments and data to keep track of all the things to be planned and to be done.
For example on thurseday we have a "60+day" for the ones aged 60 and more (younger ones wellcome ;-). It's themed in the range of "History of our district" and I was (and am still...) working on a video to show how our local glaciere is working to manufacture ice (he's shop is an institution here) and am doing the works for a presentation about "When our last tramway has been carriied to grave" with old historical documents.
I am also writing protocols in meetings of our different boards (when I am on the queue) I am member of, and am having a few pdf with me with all the data I have to carry around having a quick look. What I would like to have for the next weeks is an office tool to edit word- and datasheets, not just watching them, and a real, in-document-search-function. (before, I used my Treo 680 with Docs2Go, that's been a big help)
i am also in fundraising and PR, so my pre is a wonderful instrument via "Synergy" to work with more then one calendar.

I'm a profesional skateboarder that has a 40+hr a week day job because I land in the starving artist category. I also help with a skateboard youth ministry where we travel to various churches that are having events like bbqs or reach out events. Not to mention partnered up with 2 friends to start a new skateboard company.

So I use my Palm Pre for alot of things from constantly checking weather, email, calandar for keeping track of events, going on facebook, myspace (yes the kids still use myspace), GPS(Sprint nav has helped us tremendously finding our way to church events), viewing pdf files for the company, taking pictures at events to quickly load online, youtube to check out kids skateboard video footage, texting, more texting, and more texting, sometimes making phone calls (haha), use simple bible app,,,,, the list goes on and on, and it's no surprise if I'm doing 5 things at once which makes the Pre very useful with the smooth multitasking.

Do I have games? You bet! Those help me when I'm traveling to large skateboarding events such as national competitions, demos, church events, trade shows, or simple meet and greets.

Do I log onto Pre Central... Sometimes I think way too much but I also go on engadget and a few other sites along with listening to tech podcasts most the day while I'm doing all my stuff. I am a tech junkie or geek (pick your word lol) it's my quick escapes through the day from the 3million other things I have going on.

would I like to see a new device? Most certainly. The new update would be nice also. Obviously I'm too busy to stress out over it though.

lastly... Do I ramble on or word vomit? Oh ya I appologize for the long post.... Did I get a little word vomit on your shoes? Sorry you shouldn't of been standing there.

I would tell you, however, the fraternal organization would then have to eliminate me. Silly rule, i KNOW, but it works for them. Let's just say it keeps me organized, gives me 1 device instead of variety of calendars, computer discs, phones, hand-held games, carnivorous beetles, newspapers, cameras, radio and maps.