I Miss You webOS

Night time on the Seawall, the best time to ride!

It has been a long while now since I have posted anything here. Being very busy doing other stuff (such as living life) is only part of the cause. No longer using a webOS Device is the real culprit.
My Pre finally died on me a number of months ago. I dropped it a few times too many and it ceased to function. Which reminds me that I still need to figure out how to pull the files out of the phone when the touch screen doesn't work. I need to be able to turn USB mode on somehow. Usually you just tap the screen at the bottom where the icon appears, but this isn't an option for me. Hopefully I will figure something out. I would like to get the 6 gigs of music I had stored.
For the past couple months I've been using a Motorola Spice running Android 2.1. The phone itself is very similar to the Palm Pre I was using. Same look and design (verticle slider keyboard) and the same size. Even similiar specs on the CPU. But It's allot sturdier and solid. It feels better in my hand for sure, much less flimsy and fragile.
It does seem slower and less responsive though, with the response time on many functions being quite frustrating. Android OS (IMHO) does not hold a candle to webOS. Not even close. From what I've seen, 2.2 (and up) looks considerably better. But 2.1 is nowhere near the 1.x I was using. Never mind webOS 2.x.
Copy and paste is for me the most glaring example. It's a real pain in the ass! It was so easy on webOS that i got spoiled. It makes blogging on my phone a bigger hassle than it used to be.
On the plus side is the app catalog. For example, this post was written on my Bogger app. It's a decent app, but minus a few specific feature (having to do with links and photos) I think I preferred my Notes app on the Pre.
C'est la vie. It's getting dark here on the Seawall and I am looking forward to the ride!

Rest in Peace

My Pre has finally died. It took one bump too many. I really do not know what I am gonna do. I have a week before I can afford to actually do anything about it. I haven't gotten around yet to speaking with Bell to see what they can do for me, but I will do so on Monday. My preference would actually be a Pre2, but I don't see that happening. BB Torch maybe? Perhaps an Android (although which one I really have no clue.

I need to do something soon though. I am having serious withdrawals right now. I've gotten spoiled over the last 6 months on always being connected. I don't like being unplugged.

It is very likely that this blog will be discontinued. Without a (working) Palm Pre in my possession I don't really see the point in writing about how much I love it...

But I do have a couple others, and who knows, maybe I'll love my next phone enough to want to write about it too.

The Drunken Uncle

I've been thinking lately about Palm and HP. About how the launch of the the Pre 2 has got to be the worst in marketing history. Seriously, HP couldn't have done a better job of killing Palm if they tried. There's no way this was how Palm meant to launch this phone. It's all quite pitiful.

It does leave me optimistic though. As far as I can tell, the Pre2 is a pretty decent phone. Significant resources must have been spent developing and manufacturing them (although I bet they cut the run down allot from what had been planned earlier). And yet it would seem that HP doesn't really think it's good enough. They don't really want to put their name on it. They want people to forget all about Palm. And to start thinking about HP webOS.

About the amazing devices that run it. Wicked phones and tablets. Eventually our entire home could be a bunch of interconnected HP webOS devices. The kitchen for sure (even the toaster!). HVAC and other climate controls. I would imagine that they'll figure out a way to leverage webOS into the laptops and desktops. The living room would be the hardest room to get into. They could always buy a TV company. But I doubt they could afford Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo - who currently own the living room.

Either HP is extremely confident in what they've got coming. Or they are extremely incompetent. I'll go with confident. So confident that it would appear to be in their best interest to let Palm and the Pre/Pre2 wither and die off a slow fade. There's no way HP couldn't have done this a helluva lot better had they actually wanted to. It really looks like they plan to start from scratch, and join the smart phone fray as a new entrant. Not as the returning underdog who just received his interence. Bon soir Palm. It was nice knowing you.

Hello HP webOS. Considering that I really do need to get a new phone. And that I will have buy one at full price. I probably won't mind being able to enjoy it for awhile before making another such purchase. Which allows me to say, take your time - do it right.