Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus: A smartphone for some of us

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited March 2010 in Science & Tech
Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus: A smartphone for some of us

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  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    Interesting. Sounds like the kind of smart phone for my little sister, if she were interested in such things. The strange SMS stuff would be off putting though.

    Oh, and as for G1 mobile hotspot mode. It can very much be done (and I do it with mine on occasion). The only problem is that you have to have root access to do it.
  • lmorchardlmorchard {web,mad,computer} scientist Portland, OR Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    For what it's worth, my wife has one of these (non-Plus on Sprint, actually) and she loves it as a replacement for her old Palm Centro. That's pretty much the target market.

    I'm confused about the missing SMS thing though: The Messaging app is in the launcher on both my Pre and my wife's Pixi. That app combines SMS and IM messaging, and it has a "new message" button at the bottom you can hit to start conversation with any number without needing to have it in contacts first.

    But, I do have my wife in my contacts. So, the cool thing is when she logs off from IM at work, the conversation thread just continues on SMS because both are in my card for her.

    And I also have to say the multitasking UI on webOS is awesome once you've gotten used to the gestures. It's basically like you've got a camera on a table spread with cards. You're normally zoomed in on one, but you can push away to see more cards to flip between, and you can flick them off the table to close them.

    That Android, iPhone, or Maemo doesn't have something that smooth makes me stabby whenever I try to use one of those devices. iPhone doesn't really multitask at all, Android does it in a way that mystifies me and needs 3rd-party task killers, and Maemo is close-but-no-cigar awkward.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    That's weird, because I tried the messaging app and I didn't see anything that jumped out at me as "SMS". I may have to revisit it, but the ultimate point is, and perhaps I'm jaded by too much Android, but WebOS is not intuitive to me, and I find myself having to look up how to do things.

    Once I learn, it all makes sense, but it's definitely a different way of looking at things.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    As I said in campfire, SMS can be accessed via the messaging app. They call it "conversations," not SMS.
  • lmorchardlmorchard {web,mad,computer} scientist Portland, OR Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    primesuspect wrote:
    That's weird, because I tried the messaging app and I didn't see anything that jumped out at me as "SMS". I may have to revisit it, but the ultimate point is, and perhaps I'm jaded by too much Android, but WebOS is not intuitive to me, and I find myself having to look up how to do things.

    Once I learn, it all makes sense, but it's definitely a different way of looking at things.

    The funny thing is that Android is counterintuitive to me now that I've been living with webOS for awhile. So many things feel clunky to me on Android that feel Minority-Report-smooth to me on webOS.
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