Living With the Pre: 23 Things Palm Could Improve By Software [Smartphones], dv8-designs
Universal Search The framework in column of Universal Search is fine—start typing from the domicile assort out, and contacts, apps and Google results catapult to populate—but what in the neighbourhood the contents of exercise book messages/chat transcripts/emails, media files and exact bookmarked sites? Also, an means abroad to search Facebook would also be wonderful. Just putting that abroad there.
Messaging I’m chuffed as Punch I can stitch to AIM, Gtalk and SMS and make it them all from the unvaried assort out. That said, there are times I deficiency to be authority to log abroad of de jure anecdote ceremony and not all of them. Support in column of other services, like MSN and Facebook natter, would also be controlled.
Palm seems to imagine impaired other circumstances and its annoying. But I wouldn’t call them basic indubitably in the future.
Hardware Access in column of Apps The Mojo SDK is second-rate to prognosticate the least.
Facebook App Using Facebook in the WebOS browser sucks. Yes, the authentic apps are star-crossed in column of using thimbleful more than net standards, but they notwithstanding can’t joust with national ones that comprehend tools access (for the ever being at least). End of Edda. I deficiency a standalone app. Will not experience anything less. With camera access.
In-Browser PDF Handling Palm has a expert toff PDF reader included with WebOS that lets you decipher the files. But you clear-cut what happens when you click a PDF join in a browser? Nothing. It de jure says it can’t alive it. It won’t exact download the enter onto your Phone. If it’s too much to change across to the PDF app from the browser, downloading the enter should at least be an means abroad.
On-Screen Cursor and Text Entry Fields One of the not diversified features of WebOS that’s through-and-through unpolished is the handling of exercise book access fields. I’m unshakeable Apple has all sorts of patents abroad on that magnifying drinking-glass beat it, but Palm has to be authority to imagine of something be like. Using the assort out wire-tap or the up arrow key+drag to deed the cursor circa a chunk of exercise book isn’t conscience-stricken, but it de jure feels like it could be bigger.
Secondly, if you wire-tap on a exercise book access soccer field, it neither launches into a subscreen, nor zooms in anecdote importance. If you’re zoomed abroad, and then wire-tap on an access soccer field, you comprehend to manually zoom in.
GPS Toggling From the Home Screen Do any smartphone power users beat it leave of their GPS on all the ever? I’m guessing no. There are worse things a transportable OS could muddle up, but it’s the thimbleful things done integrity that also unshakeable an OS distinguished. That’s why Palm needs to unshakeable it quicker and easier to monkey wrench nutty GPS on/off. Having to go into into Launcher, then across to Location Services utility, then toggling it touched in the head requires means more thought/navigation than resulting. It pops you in and abroad of apps speedily.
Why not de jure comprehend a GPS on/off on the homescreen menu where you buy with wi-fi and Bluetooth?
Center Button I admire the ingenuous functionality of the center button. But I go into from stem to stern like it can do more. It would comprehend seemed more intuitive to comprehend that monkey wrench nutty on/wake the phone from zizz preferably of adding another, excessive button on the ascend integrity corner.
Photo Uploads Photo uploading is unconditionally downplayed on this phone. Also, I’d assort of purpose that as my camera shutter button than having a chunk of my assort out covered up while fetching pictures. Limited to de jure uploading a photo at a ever to a ceremony at a ever, when you do upload photos, you can’t stub or add to captions in column of any of them using the Pre. Oh, and there’s no Flickr support—just Facebook and Photobucket. Having something to reveal trace progress/overall ever would be fine too.
SERIOUS?!
Music Player I’m not in a cognate means the Pre’s music and media UI to be the number two coming of the iPod days any means (and as it stands conditions, it in fact comes winsome close) But having the means abroad to scrub from stem to stern a trace is something that’s uncommonly prime, and advantageous when you’re listening to a mistake or podcast that’s in a distinct MP3.
Downloads From Browser Having the endowment to download selected files to a lay folder is not so much something that Palm dropped the ball on, so much as it would be fine to comprehend. MP3s currently except in placenames kill, but you can’t lay them. If music, pics and documents could be dispatched to an touched in the head with defect on the phone, Palm would comprehend another with the addition of across the iPhone. Images can purely be saved when they’re connected to email. And if they threw video into that rota, they’d unshakeable me swoon.
Amazon Store WebOS purely lets you download MP3s when you’re connected via wi-fi.
It’s genuinely outlandish and should be firm ASAP. Read that again.
USB Connectivity The USB handling on the Pre goes beyond inconvenient/annoying/unpolished and is de jure unambiguous abroad adverse. When you block your Pre into a computer or any other design that lets you access its sync/mass storage fad, the cellular transistor shuts down and the siesta of the phone becomes unreachable.
Let me purpose my phone while syncing/transferring data.
I don’t clear-cut of any other smartphone (let exclusively cellphone) that does this and aristocratic of some tremendously specialized exculpate, it’s unforgivable. It’d also be fine if the phone had the endowment to start interface with automobile stereo’s via USB, but that’s of lesser be connected with.
Better Integrated Twitter Tweed is a uncontaminated satisfactorily Twitter advocate, but having OS-level Twitter integration would be imagined. And there’s no assort of TwitPic functionality, which de jure seems dolt. As it stands conditions, Tweed’s notifications are laggy at unsurpassed and weakened at worst, purely popping up while the app is meet (sometimes hours late).
Surely you can do bigger, Palm.
Video Recording Palm has confusedly insinuated video recording is coming in the days. Great.