Just FYI, I'm in Australia with German Pre and Telstra SIM card. Last night, with some trepidation, I updated to 1.3.5.2, and after a day of use boy am I thrilled!
I've read all the forums since US release of this update, and most people seem to focus on stuff that is fairly unimportant to me, but what IS important to me are the fundamentals:
1) Battery life more than 50% longer.
2) Every internal app is much faster - especially Web and email.
3) Sound seems crisper in phone calls.
This is what I use a smartphone for. All else is just fluff for those who are passionate.
I have NOT found anything adverse at all. The App catalog came up fine (134 free apps by the way here in AU).
My wish list for the future can be summarised as:
1) more battery life still (couple of days of moderate use please, like my Treo 650)
2) more user-settable settings in the drop-downs
3) the ability to sync with my laptop Outlook using Bluetooth rather than USB or WiFi 3rd-party apps.
I've only had the phone a month, and really didn't expect it to work on the other side of the world. But I've already had two seamless fantastic updates from Palm, and all my gripes have been about 3rd party sync apps rather than the Pre itself.
Palm deserves every one of the accolades that are starting to flow in the past few weeks. WebOS is everything I hoped it would be, and is coming together nicely. It is moving from "vapourware" to become a pretty solid, stable and exciting package of "masterware".
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