PalmCast Episode 67 20
by Dieter Bohn Wed, 08 Jul 2009 9:45 am EDT
Dieter and Mike return to talk Palm Pre, webOS, and answer your questions. Listen in!
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20 Comments
Yay! I've been looking forward to loading this up on my Pre.
Holy crap! Don't start the show off with that ring - I tried to answer my phone.
And the text message tone at about 19:50, I was surprised when I didn't have a new message lol
Umm... palm pre doom:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/palm-pre-runs-doom-smartphone-loving-...
Just fyi, NES, Doom, and I believe the playstation emulator were not native WebOS apps. They required you install Debian onto the device and run those emulators off Debian, completely separate from the WebOS.
One neat trick to Gmail email setup, if to set the Trash folder in the email app to "All Mail". That way essentially deleting is archiving in Gmail.
I'm unhappy the Pre is coming to Bell Canada. Not because I dislike them, but because they don't sell to Manitoba, my home province. :(
First off, GMAIL Stars works with the Pre's email. It just sets the importance flag in your email view.
Second. Sprint service. I have noticed that if you did get ok sprint service before, but now you dont, you may want to turn off roaming. Now that I have upgraded my plan, which we probably all did for the Pre, it comes with free roaming and roaming turned on by default. If you are only getting one or 2 bars, the phone will try to look for a stronger roaming signal. This will cause the phone to cut out a lot and drop calls. You may want to turn voice roaming off.
Hmmm... interesting. I'll try that. I do notice that my signal flips up & down randomly. That said, I called sprint and one of their recommendations was to turn *on* data roaming. Which has, in fact, come in handy. I find that I roam from time to time and w/out data roaming, the phone is off.
Gonna try the sprint only option on voice. See what happens.
Regarding the "reason" for not getting a Pre because you don't have good Sprint coverage in your home: rather than just getting a signal repeater (that costs $300), another option is the Sprint Airave which some people say Sprint is presently even giving away free (and waiving monthly charges) if signal is bad in your home.
Femtocells like the Airave (made by Samsung) have various benefits over a repeater. They use your Internet connection as a back-haul to Sprint's network, so you can get Sprint coverage in your home even if there is no Sprint coverage in your area at all. And, the femtocell is right in your house, so your phone does not have to use a high powered transmission to reach a far-away cell tower. Result: less radiation pumped into your body (or your brain, if you're not using a headset).
That's a reason to use a femtocell even if you DO have good coverage in your home (though there are other options, such as cell base-stations that allow you to make calls from a regular land-line phone that is instead hooked to your cell phone base station and makes calls on the cell network).
And by the way, the Pre is #1 (not #2) in multi-tasking for smartphones. Period.
Great show as usual. I especially enjoyed and took comfort from all the comments about Version 1 status of the Pre. The comfort I am talking about is the decision to wait for the Pre to come to Verizon. Until then, I am still loving my Centro but excited about the Pre. My only suggestion, show some loving to the old TreoCentral portal. It hardly gets any attention any more.
But you guys are doing a stellar job keeping us informed on what is happening on the cutting edge.
Thanks for answering my question about the Bell Pre :) and *sigh* the only reason I'm happy it's coming out on Bell is because my paernts have me on their Bell share plan so it'll cost me less XD
http://predev.wikidot.com/doom
http://predev.wikidot.com/nintendo
I'm pretty sure both those show a need for Debian, at least for compiling. And in both those HowTo its shown that you need to shut down the entire WebOS GUI to get it to run (LunaSysMgr shutdown command)
The thing about using Exchange as an intermediate for Entourage is I believe if you cancel the Exchange account as Mike mentioned is possible, then you no longer have the information from that account on your phone. Pretty big caveat to that solution if you ask me.
That's what I find myself asking as well. Can I 'sync-back' from the pre to e.g. google, after I synced Entourage with the pre over a hosted exchange service?
For desktop sync, Entourage is supported by Missing Sync:
'The Missing Sync works with Mac applications you already know and use
Wow, clicking on the Download link from the Pre browser starts streaming the podcast.
Wow, clicking on the Download link from the Pre browser starts streaming the podcast.
OK - I guess I am slow here. Maybe you need to post a video for all us "don't got one yet" people. I use gmail with the imap setup on my 700p, but I use it through the web browser. It sounds like you (Dieter) have it working in the email app. But with labels and all? I use an organizing plugin for Firefox called GTDInbox to org my email for project and todos. So I use labels a LOT!! You seem to be saying all that is available in the email app. True or not true? Maybe give a demo. Thanks for the podcasts as always.
Bruce.
(Kinoma please, please, please)
When you setup a gmail on the Pre, the default is imap, so it'll be like what you're used to: folders are labels, flagging messages is starring messages, moving to a folder is adding label and archiving.