I Love my Pre, and can honestly say that yes I am waiting for the pre to finally bring on the app’s, but I would much rather they take the time they need to do it right.

In my opinion, the simple fact that the Pre can contend with the iphone 3Gs in its first build speaks volumes on Palm’s abilities. I can’t wait to see what the 2nd Gen Pre will do and look like!

Being able to jump from app to app to gather info, is critical and awesome on a mobile device.

I am finding the apps to be useful. Apple has a zillion apps, but 75% of them are fluff and useless. I prefer useful, well thought out apps, and with few exceptions, I can do everything on the Pre as I did with the iphone.

My complaints are… awful battery life, poor camera quality, and no video.
I’ll keep my itouch around for the apps I like/need until Palm catches up.

Remember people… Apple didn’t open their store with thousands of apps either.
be patient!

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I’ve had the Pre since June 5, but I’m still carrying around my old Centro as a PDA. I haven’t heard enough good about the Palm OS Emulator app to justify buying it, so I keep my Centro around for this:

The Calc app – I can’t believe the WebOS app dropped all the amazing functionality of the Palm OS calculator.

Camcorder – ’nuff said.

Docs To Go – hear that one’s coming, we’ll see.

eReader – love my books

Handy Shpr – I probably use this app more than any single app. I will probably keep the Centro just for this until I find (or write) a Pre replacement.

PAF – I do genealogy bigtime, and being able to carry around the entire family tree in my pocket is huge. Again, until I find (or write) a replacement, I’ll keep the Centro for this.

pTunes – Especially now that it’s not used as a phone, the battery life on the Centro while playing music is phenomenal compared to the Pre.

Pics&Videos – The ability to categorize media on the Centro does not seem to have carried over to the Pre. The Pre seems to decide on its own what folders to include in the Photos app, so I end up with lots of album covers listed as photos. Irritating.

There are lots of little details about the built in apps that seem to have been dropped also. I have probably 1000 memos and an equal number of contacts. No categories on the Pre, and no good way to tag them for later selection. I chose to back up contacts to Google, so I’ll have to see if Google provides the functionality that I lost. Still trying to figure out what to do regarding the memos. I’ll probably give Evernote a shot.

Overall, I love the Pre, and I’m looking forward to all the apps I can get or write, but this is the first time I’ve been an “early adopter” and my inclination is to go back to letting everyone *else* be the early adopters in the future.

HOWEVER, slickness doesn’t replace the functionality I had with the Curve.

Ofcourse, email, IM, text all worked MUCH better on the Curve. Not as ’slick’ as the Pre but MUCH more functional. Why can’t we landscape email??

Selecting text is a major chore on the Pre. You can only do so when creating a document.. You can’t even forward text messages,, jeez..
The apps are nice. I love Where, CitySearch and the YouTube apps.. MySpace and Facebook apps worked better on the Curve.

The camera doesn’t zoom, no video recorder and the flash is not as good as it was on the Curve. I cant take pictures of my drunk friends at the bar anymore. The picture quality in the dark is too poor.

I would love to see a Call Recorder. There isn’t one for the Blackberry either, but some of the other Palms had one (ones with Palm OS at least).

I would also like the ‘Clock’ app to be part of my wallpaper background. THAT would be slick..

One other thing, does anyone elses Pre get really hot when using it while it’s charging??

It is a very stable device. The phone radio is great. I don’t see much difference with Rev. A, but again, signal strength is good.
Screen quality is very impressive and the ability to have multiple apps open simultaneously is VERY handy and convenient. Other Palms and Blackberry can’t do that and MS Mobile does it like everything Microsoft; glitchy.

Overall, I’m holding on to the phone because I see it’s potential. I hope after 30 days I don’t regret my decision..
MORE APPS NOW!!!

I’d like multi-protocol instant messaging; I only have one friend on Google Talk and I more often TM her than use that. Thinking about seeing if libpurple (Pidgin) will port, and try to use its dbus interface without the actual Pidgin GUI running, though native support in the Pre’s messaging and contacts apps would be preferable since the fields for your contacts’ Yahoo, AIM and MSN entries are already in there.

I think some actual games (that aren’t all over AJAX demo sites) already would attract more users too, but even with their awesome Javascript runtime, I think games at even the Bejeweled level are going to have to be written a little closer to the metal. Flash will take care of some of it, but look at the video of the Playstation emulator to see what the Pre could really do if developers try.

But as far as Mojo games go, I think a multiplayer networked Scrabble-style game might be nice. I’d probably buy a networked trivia game too, and know a few other people who also would.

I’d like an OpenOffice document viewer. I’m probably one of about 10 people who would.

Loopt is getting important, and I’d like to see that on the Pre. Skype already is important, but they’re snubbing the Pre for now.

Finally, I really, really want a voice recorder that saves to /media/internal (the part you see when you plug the USB cable into your Pre) so I’ll never run out of space for my voice notes.

One other note about the App Catalog: I probably will not be spending too much time with it unless they come up with a consistent and CLEAR way of indicating which apps are actually free and which are trials or require an outright payment. After 7 years without Windows, I forgot how annoying it is to search for and download proprietary software, not always knowing what you’re going to get or how much you’ll have to pay till you run it. The Pre has raised my phone bill enough (had to get rid of my grandfathered unlimited data and 2000 shared minutes plan for a more expensive unlimited data and 1500 shared minutes plan) without extra little surprises on the bill.

Also (and I will add this suggestion on its own) I’d like to be able to make individual icons (like the I.C.E one) bigger.

It’s been handy in helping me transfer huge files as it also functions as an 8GB USB drive.

Turn-by-turn GPS navigation is very cool but the battery isn’t very helpful on long trips. It came with a regular outlet charger but I’ve tinkered with it enough to learn that I could also use an iPod car charger with a USB port to power my Pre while I’m using it on the road. Now I have no excuse not to run Pandora’s internet radio or anything else while I’m driving.

I love how I can access Craigslist and Facebook much easier along with the seamless ability to receive multiple e-mails from various servers in one place. It makes me a little too productive.

This multitasking feature has gotten me so spoiled, I find myself peeking in the App Catalog for something new to join the rest of my apps running in the background

What APPS are the must have ones you keep running back to on the Iphone? I currently have a Q and have a few smal games on it but hardly ever play with any of them.Ditto for the Computer,I have a few of the games people play but I don’t feel the need to play any of them.Guess I have gotten passed the gameboy stage in life that I am not tied down that much to do those things.

I will probably get the Touch Pro 2 if I can get it without having to get an Everything Plan but wouldn’t mind a marriage between that and the Pre if I could get it at the right price and the right monthly $$.