Comments on: I Can Haz a Palm Pre AND IT IS AWESOME!

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:00:33 +0000

Hey @Steve (who I’m guessing won’t ever get this because you used a fake email address)… Actually, we’ve had 3 Palm Pres for the last 7 months and haven’t had any problems with cracked screens. Oh, and I pay $7 per month for Sprint’s total equipment protection plan, and am very pleased with their service.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:13:25 +0000

Wait till the screen cracks on you, which happens alot. It’s not covered under warranty unless you get some extended warranty which exceeds the cost of the phone. Surf the net and see for yourself. Mine cracked and BELL wants me to pay for another phone.

By: KPilot is dead « Bobulate

KPilot is dead « Bobulate — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:27:08 +0000

[...] blogged about it two weeks ago, and you might have deduced it from Jason’s gadget switch, but KPilot should be considered dead. Of the three “maintainers” (and I used that word [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:12:47 +0000

Thanks again. I’m living in the midst of standing stones, cairns & duns, so the Stone Age (OK, rather Late Bronze Age) fits me well. And half of the area has no proper coverage for mobile connections (BT stands for Bronze-age Telecom…)

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:58:58 +0000

Cool! One more thing I forgot to mention… If you’re really stuck in the stone age, there’s a “Classic” emulator for the Palm Pre that still runs the old Palm OS5 PIM applications and even lets you sync with the old Palm OS5 syncing solutions (like KPilot over bluetooth with net:any). HTH! =:)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:52:52 +0000

Thanks for that, Jason! In the end there may be salvation, even for a dinosaur like me… That would mean installing multisync + kdepim & syncml plugins. I think I can do that. I mean, once openSUSE 11.2 is out, and we have survived Xmas, I’ll try a clean setup. Nelleke still loves her Palm m505, so if things work we are both happy.

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:18:47 +0000

Hey Martin. =:) I believe that I’ve read that the Pre is supposed to be able to do SyncML syncing, but I have never looked into it. If anything, that might be the way to look at syncing your Pre with KDE/Kontact. I believe the Missing Sync guys have figured out how to get this working, so it must also be doable on a FOSS PIM suite. =:)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:00:47 +0000

I can see your point, and from there you’re right. But I’m not in the Exchange world and I’m not going into before 2030 anyway. And I like the idea of keeping my calendar & contacts stuff where I can see them, so not out in the wild with Google. That’s just me being calvinistic, and that’s why I really appreciated your screwing around with KPilot and the likes. So, maybe I should look into setting up something on my webhost into which I could just login from a Pre? That is, if I succumb to temptation…

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:36:55 +0000

Hey Martin. webOS syncs directly with Google calendar/contacts/email/etc. and that’s all I care about at this point. It also syncs flawlessly with my work Exchange calendar so for the first time in my life, I’m absolutely thrilled about having a device that can do that without me having to screw around with desktop syncing tools that don’t work 100%. So, no, syncing with kontact isn’t possible right now, I don’t think, and forgive me, but I couldn’t care less. =:)

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:23:15 +0000

Can’t wait for the Palm Pre to cross the mighty Atlantic backwards & land on Scotland’s rocky shores. Actually, I’m closely monitoring that coastline on a day-to-day basis… it’s right across the road. BUT! Will Pre’s webOS still allow me to sync my calendar & contacts (& notes & pictures &c) directly with my beloved KDE environment, i.c. Kontact? Or do I have to do it all through Google or the likes of it? My current Palm Treo 680 is increasingly failing to sync properly (but perhaps an upgrade to KDE 4.2 will solve that) and I start getting nervous about it. Also, I presume there will be a lot of new & useful apps on the Pre, but what is actually available right now?