Comments on: Impressions after two weeks with the Palm Pre Plus – Review, Pros and Cons http://vibol.hou.cc/impressions-after-two-weeks-with-the-palm-pre-plus seize the code Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Vibol http://vibol.hou.cc/impressions-after-two-weeks-with-the-palm-pre-plus/comment-page-1#comment-26670 Vibol Mon, 24 May 2010 02:15:07 +0000 http://vibol.hou.cc/?p=298#comment-26670 I've gotten some comments about speed and heat with Sprint's Pre, but I can't say that I've experienced that myself yet. Another friend of mine had two Sprint Pres, each of which were swapped out at least 2 times for hardware issues (heat, bad speakerphone, etc.) I have experienced sluggish moments, but nothing remarkable when compared to my Blackberry Bold. I think the additional memory probably does help because the phone has to do less swapping. I heard in one of the developer videos from Palm that some apps become sluggish when the phone's memory management swaps the app's memory space into slower memory. This often happens to cards that have been placed in the background for a while. Thanks for the tip about the patch. I haven't actually installed any Homebrew/Preware patches and apps yet, but I have put the phone into developer mode for writing apps. Besides that, it's 100% vanilla for now. I just want to be sure that if I run into issues in this honeymoon phase, it's clear the issues are native to the software and hardware. I'll cross that road in a couple weeks time. I’ve gotten some comments about speed and heat with Sprint’s Pre, but I can’t say that I’ve experienced that myself yet. Another friend of mine had two Sprint Pres, each of which were swapped out at least 2 times for hardware issues (heat, bad speakerphone, etc.) I have experienced sluggish moments, but nothing remarkable when compared to my Blackberry Bold. I think the additional memory probably does help because the phone has to do less swapping. I heard in one of the developer videos from Palm that some apps become sluggish when the phone’s memory management swaps the app’s memory space into slower memory. This often happens to cards that have been placed in the background for a while.

Thanks for the tip about the patch. I haven’t actually installed any Homebrew/Preware patches and apps yet, but I have put the phone into developer mode for writing apps. Besides that, it’s 100% vanilla for now. I just want to be sure that if I run into issues in this honeymoon phase, it’s clear the issues are native to the software and hardware. I’ll cross that road in a couple weeks time.

]]> By: dullgeek http://vibol.hou.cc/impressions-after-two-weeks-with-the-palm-pre-plus/comment-page-1#comment-26669 dullgeek Mon, 24 May 2010 01:48:08 +0000 http://vibol.hou.cc/?p=298#comment-26669 As a Palm Pre owner since 6/6/09 (Sprint's release day), I have a few comments: 1) I'm surprised that you didn't comment on speed. It's one of the things that irritates me: the phone gets inconsistently laggy. Of course, that's on my Pre w/only 256MB RAM compared to your Pre Plus w/512MB RAM. 2) There's a patch in preware to hang up the phone when you close it. It's called "Closer Slider to End". I prefer the one where it only ends "regular calls" e.g. if you have a headset on or are using speaker phone, closing the slider does not hang up those calls. As a Palm Pre owner since 6/6/09 (Sprint’s release day), I have a few comments:

1) I’m surprised that you didn’t comment on speed. It’s one of the things that irritates me: the phone gets inconsistently laggy. Of course, that’s on my Pre w/only 256MB RAM compared to your Pre Plus w/512MB RAM.

2) There’s a patch in preware to hang up the phone when you close it. It’s called “Closer Slider to End”. I prefer the one where it only ends “regular calls” e.g. if you have a headset on or are using speaker phone, closing the slider does not hang up those calls.

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