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Palm Pre - the New iPhone?

2009-11-08T05:38:00.000-08:00

So I have a new Palm Pre. Is it better than the iPhone? Well yes and no - not quite and responsive BUT has great built in capabilities and a very iPhone-like interface. I like the sliding card view which means you can have many multi tasking apps open at once. No dedicated Facebook app but fine using x.facebook.com.

I have had it for a week and the best bit is the unified email handler app. I can get all of my emails and view them in one easy to use interface - with the iPhone I had to move from one email account to another which meant three back>Back>back commands to get to say my Gmail account from my Exchange account.

I have a nice photo taken with the pre and I have no issues with that:

That's about it for now. Further updates as I use the Pre in anger over the next few weeks.

Just Another Day

2008-07-14T13:31:00.001-07:00

Got the new iPhone on Friday. I ordered a 16gb model online on the Thursday bit never received a confirmation. So I went to the o2 store in Cribbs Causeway at 0700 and queued for 2 hours. Got to the front of the queue to be told there were no more 16gb left. Some people left the queue. My details were taken and I went in to find out there were 5 16gb phones left so managed to get one.

I went back to work and activated the phone after putting my old sim in. Apple give you a little pointed metal tool so you can eject the sim carrier. They think of everything. I then set up exchange push email. Brilliantly simple. I also added Gmail and me.com accounts.

Using iTunes I then scoured the new app store to find new and exciting software. I found a neat music multi track perfomance tool called moo-cow music. Brilliant! Other noteworthy apps are facebook, zenbe list manager and ipint. Ipint got a few laughs at the Mark Make-a-wish dinner on Saturday night.

Make-a-wish is a charity for children who are terminally ill or who have been very ill, and it provides them with an opportunity to do something they have wished for such as a trip to Disney Florida. We had a very good dinner prepared by Table 8 in Wedmore. Mike did an excellent job with A Class mass catering. Mozzarella and tomato starter, chicken breast and green Beene followed by taramisu and then a superb Italian cheese board. Many pints of Butcombe bitter, good friends and a lot of laughs. I think everyone from the village must have been there. The Orphans were excellent providing the music for the night. It was a themed 20's night. Needless to say I was one of few that didn't do fancy dress. Most blokes were. Dressed as gangsters/ mobsters. So you see why I didn't bother.

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Welcome to Jon's Tech Blog

2007-07-27T00:45:00.000-07:00

Hi my tech blog brings news and reviews of various tech, gadgets and toys from around the world (well mainly from me in the UK!). Hope you enjoy it.