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Evo

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I got an HTC Evo (Sprint 4G) phone a few weeks ago, and have been really loving it. I believed in Palm, had a Palm Pre (Sprint, 1st webOS device) day 1: June 6, 2009. I was holding out the whole time for a few apps and functionalities to come to webOS, video eventually did. That was the LEAST of the things needed on that phone. A year later, still a nice device, but lacking still …

In July & August I paid more attention to what was out or coming soon, and found myself in the boat looking for a bigger, newer, faster, well tech’d out boat. Meet the HTC Evo. Has the speed where 4G is out, works better in 3G than my Palm Pre did. Is fast, slick, useful, great built in functions. Voice anything, search, cameras, Google everything that works. Love the Google Nav app. I could go on and on, but I won’t.

I just need to find a decent mount for this device so I can use it instead of my lost Magellan (stolen from our vehicle not long before I got the Evo) in the car. I don’t like the two options that are “out there” right now, HTC & Seido. I may end up with one of them eventually.

This is a phone that is a pleasure to use, I LIKE the bigger size. I LOVE IT! And it works. Works well, has zip and has apps that are useful and built-in stuff that SHOULD BE in WEBOS! But webOS for me is in the past.

Preware for Palm Pre

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I waited long enough for the process to be easy. I got Preware running on my Palm Pre this past week and love what I’ve changed on my Pre. I have a blue dialer, so much nicer than the original green, it’s exactly what I’ve wanted and a notice about it online in the past few weeks is what brought me back to look at customizing my Pre.

Some of the functionality I’ve missed from old Palm’s is “categories”. One nice patch (tweak) is “add/delete pages” which let you add more launch pages, or delete launch pages. Another patch lets you “name pages” so once both those are installed, wow! I also got a couple more launch things, like “glass” so the launch pages aren’t so blah. I tried “transparent” but that patch made other patches not install, as I figured out by removing everything and trying this and that to find the problem-ed one.

I also added the “virtual keyboard” It’s pretty nice. On several occasions I’ve reached to slide my phone keyboard out and said, oh forget it, I don’t have to now. It’ll take more practice to get better skill with the virtual keyboard, and I’m willing to go that way.

Messaging and Email are now landscape mode-able. That’s a major difference that I like using. Also added character count in messaging, and full time stamps on messages. Thank you patches and who created them!

I added more than that, little thing that functionally make me like the phone more. Header, calendar, etc.

I really like the Launch Pages though. Named Pages, Add pages … it’s what should have been in the Pre from Day 1, IMO and maybe one day they’ll add it to webOS for real.

In any case, Preware is a great app and it’s not hard to get it working on the Pre. So very simple, IMVHO.