Pre 2 user guide posted. In French. 44
Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:43 am EDT 
Testing the limits of our English-indoctrinated brains here at PreCentral is the latest support document released by Palm. It’s the user guide for the Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0, and as you’d expect for a device that has thus far only been released on SFR in France, it’s written in French. We’re picture people anyway, so it’s a good thing that the user guide is filled to the brim with graphics relating how to do all of the gestures we’ve come to love, add Synergy accounts, download apps, perform Just Type searches, connect to your computer, make calls, and, well, do everything else with the Pre 2. As best as we can tell, there isn’t anything we didn’t already know about webOS 2.0 or the Pre 2 revealed in the 282-page (yikes) guide. Check it out for yourself, and then prendre un siège au café pour un cappuccino et un croissant.
Source: Palm; Thanks to palealeguy for the tip!
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link?
It's right there in the post!
Thanks, i was thinking it would be linked to SFR web site.
Page 12:
"Vous pouvez le tenir comment vous souhaitez."
Good One! :)
translate?
translate?
"You can hold it [in your hand] as you wish"
Unlike zee, oh, how do you say eet? Oh yes, zee iPhone.
"You can take what you want."
Try again using Yahoo's BabelFish...
So pushing on the screen is the official way of sliding open the phone...
Hope the new slider is a bit more rigid.
They need a few raised bumps on one side
That's how I always have opened mine. How do you do it? If you push near the gesture area, it doesn't easily slide open.
FYI: prendre une chaise au caf
The fact that we are reduced to reading French Pre 2 manuals for news is not cool Palm. Not cool.
In the manual, it's written "Palm webOS", not "HP webOS"...
Le PAAAAALM!
Americaaaaa, f-ck yeah! I believe is how it goes. Not a Europian country, come on!
not cool Palm, bring this stuff our way.
French kiss my ass
Are you people seriously this excited for the pre 2? Thanks to Govnah and UberKernel allowing me to overclock my pre, I don't care about the pre2.
I'm holding out to see if they announce a new phone at CES with a bigger screen. If no new hardware is announced in January i'm going to have to switch to android for at least a year (since sprint upgrade is available after a year)
I really don't want to switch to Android but HPalm is not giving me many hardware options.
Strange. Your post starts out saying you are basically happy with your Pre because of Govnah and UberKernel but if nothing is announced at CES you'll switch to Android? Will Govnah and UberKernel expire at CES?
You are taking his post out of context. He is saying that he wants a bigger screen phone, he will wait until CES to see if Palm will announce a bigger screen phone. Until then, OC and Govnah will carry him through so he does not need to get the Pre2. If HP/Pal does not announce anything new at CES, he would switch to Android.
The reason I am explaining his post is because that is exactly my plan too except I would go with Windows phone 7
Understood. Thx.
htabbach's explanation of my post is accurate.
I am saying thanks to Govanah and Uberkernel, many pre users do not have the urge to want the pre 2 because it doesn't really offer any advantage other than a flat screen and matte finish.
In the case of Palm, they have a superior OS but outdated hardware.
I bet if you took a survey people will purchase a phone because of the hardware form factor (screen size, thickness, comfort) rather than the OS.
Example: The iphone is popular, but if you change the current iphone form to the palm pre form(smaller screen, thicker, lower resolution, no auto focus camera) running IOS then I'm sure you will start to see the number of IOS users dropping.
the only hardware bump I care about is the glass screen. And yes I also have my Pre- overclocked using Govnah but if you look at side by side comparisons of the Pre2 with the Pre plus overclocked there was a slight edge to the Pre2 running native 1ghz.. Also what are you gonna say when they overclock the Pre2.....cause you know it will happen... Maybe I'm biased but my upgrade at Sprint is every March so lets say I get a Pre2 no worries for me if they announce something better at CES because by the time new stuff is released from CES I'll be due for another upgrade anyways......
and before someone shoots me down for saying I get upgrades every march I've been on the Sprint Premier program before the Pre was even released. I bought my Palm Pre on launch day last june and this year when I went in for a replacement Pre for a cracked screen I was asked if I wanted to just jump to an Android phone seeing I was due for an upgrade in March. I've been holding out for close to 8months now. Evo4G is tempting.. Epic 4G is tempting.. But I refuse to go to an Android OS and have Google watching everything I do.. I'm not hiding anything it's just the general principal of the issue of having someone looking over my shoulder I don't like. Along with nothing multitasks better then WebOS.....even on a phone whose hardware is behind the curve... I didn't get the phone on hardware specs I got it for the Operating System... But now seeing the Pre2 there is only one hardware spec I'm jealous of... Gorilla glass... I'm still floored though an American company releases a new product in France of all places and not at home.
guess their using the French as a test bed because americans complain more. Sorry we do. Lol
I hear ya. Though I'd argue that people look at more than just hardware. If you were to replace iOS with webOS on the iPhone, it wouldn't do as well. The hardware would be there, but the ecosystem would not.
I disagree. I would totally buy an iphone4 running webOS (granted gestures still works) and I think so would a lot of people that don't care for a physical keyboard.
No doubt some would. That vast majority would not. Keep in mind that the iPhone did not just become popular with the iPhone4 hardware; it's been popular all along. The user's love it and they do so for more than just the hardware. So while you (and many) would go for the ip4 w/webOS, the vast majority would not.
It started out popular because Apple came out with a phone. It remains popular not because of the OS, but because it has 300,000 apps. Many of the iPhone users I know don't care for the OS because it doesn't work like a phone needs to. They just love having their iTunes library on their phone, and being able to do 299,000 pointless things on their phone.
If webOS was put on iPhone hardware and had 300,000 apps, people would eat it up.
Which brings you full circle to the point I was making (go up a post or two):
"If you were to replace iOS with webOS on the iPhone, it wouldn't do as well. The hardware would be there, but the ecosystem would not."
Knock the device all you want for what a few of your friends say but there are millions and millions of users who are happily plugged into Apples ecosystem via iOS. With an approval rating that's way up there, I'd say they are fine with iOS for the most part.
Must've missed that previous post with the ecosystem. I have an iTouch myself, and I'm not that into the operating system. I've found myself swiping back a few times... I'd say that for the most part, the operating system is fine with iOS because most people are happily plugged into the ecosystem. Most consumers, regardless of the OS they use, don't care about things like control or freedom of choice. They just want something that they can check their email on, and play games if they need to kill time in line. For millions and millions of people, iOS is just fine. For those who know what they want, webOS and Android can provide a better option. All I'm saying is that if you dropped another 50,000 apps with the webOS 2.0 release, you'd start to see people taking the OS seriously. I think Apple and Google have too big of a head start in the market, so the best HP/Palm can do is hope to beat RIM and get in the top 3.
Ep !! In a quick first view I see a new feature : don't you see the Slide-show option in the Photo Application ?
I noticed that too!
"Pour commencer le diaporama
translated "spec bump'.
Ep! Another feature. There is an option to search into PDF Viewer, and this time works....
So, do this info from the manual tell us anything we didn't already know? Is it CDMA and GSM? Is it compatible with T-mobile bands? What about that qualcomm, what is it for?
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Finally, those French classes I took in high school are going to pay off.
someone graciously posted this side-by-side comparison of pre+ and pre2 hardware. It's in french, but still useful:
http://m.palmpre-france.com/Video-Palm-Pre-2-Petit-zoom-sur-les-ameliora...
someone graciously posted this side-by-side comparison of pre+ and pre2 hardware. It's in french, but still useful:
http://m.palmpre-france.com/Video-Palm-Pre-2-Petit-zoom-sur-les-ameliora...
If I could have WebOS 2.0 on an HTC EVO, that has a slide out horizontal keyboard, that would be the perfect phone for me. Until something close to that shows up from HPalm, I'll just live with the Pre Plus and avoid the Plus+. As for the French manual, Je ne comprende pas francais.
I'm wit sprrint, so i'm holding out hope for a new superphone in Jan/feb on sprint (like the rumor om webosworld.com).
So I'm concerned when we'll be able to overclock my pre minus so that I can run webOS 2.0 efficiently. Now would be a good time to donate to webos internals for those who are in my camp.
ummmm lostsole1970 you can overclock the Sprint Pre- cause I have for awhile now. Who told you that you couldn't?
go on your preware and download uberkernel and govnah and poof you can have fun like me. I have my profile set at screenstate 500/1000mhz.. So it bounces between 500mhz and 1ghz depending on what I'm doing.
EXCELLENT. Still no proxy support. Great, add Cisco VPN clients, and STILL do not add proxy support. What are these people thinking?