Sunday, July 31, 2011

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!