Palm Pre User Guide: the highlights, so far
By Laura June 
posted May 28th 2009 8:31AM
posted May 28th 2009 8:31AM
When word that Sprint Gurus had gotten hold of the Palm Pre User Guide came across our desks yesterday, we couldn't wait to get our eyes all over it... and then we saw that it was almost as long as Infinite Jest. Okay, we kid, it's not as bad as all that -- just 344 pages of heretofore unseen glorious tidbits. So here's what we've culled thus far: first, the Pre's main musical squeeze, Amazon MP3, will queue your music downloads when on the 3G network for later download when the device is on a WiFi network -- which is sure to cause annoyance and dismay the whole world over (and by "world" we mean the Pre's world, which is the US only). There is however, plenty of good news: the Pre will, in fact have IMAP IDLE (AKA Push) Gmail capabilities, meaning that you'll get your spam nearly the moment it hits Gmail's servers. Finally, the previously spied Reminder field in the Pre's Contacts has been found out, and it's a really awesome feature allowing you to make a note and attach it to a particular contact, so that the next time you are in contact with that person, the reminder will pop up and... remind you. For anyone suffering mild memory loss (like us) little touches like this are sure to make the Pre a more attractive proposition. Hit the read link for the full manual, and let us know what you find. Warning: the user's manual is a PDF, and has an insanely huge Sprint Gurus watermark across every blasted page.[Via Pre Central, My Pre]
How does BGR get his hands on this thing before you guys? Or are you just unable to post yet? Also there's word of itunes syncing, which would be awesome especially fro someone like me who uses itunes for podcasts, just sync up everynight like i do anyway (though i highly prefer ota sync). You hear anything about this?
Just noticed from the guide that there is no "video recording." This kinda sucks, since the new Iphone will finally be adding video recording.
Yep, probably cause of the memory limitation (no expandable memory). Guess they'll add it later with newer models. It's a basic feature and even though I rarely use it, it is after all, a basic feature that Palm could've added. No deal breaker for me though, I'm still getting a Pre. Rather have a removable battery so that I can change it on the fly! :)
You know this has nothing to do with the Pre. But I hate that I can't download pdfs with my G1. I'd like to download this and preview it for my wife but I can't get it. Grumble grumble grumble.
I can download pdf's with my G1...I use repligo reader to view them. It works pretty well.