[unfrostedpoptart]

I was wondering what people think are show-stoppers as far as getting a Pre. For me:

- No voicedial. I use this all the time on my Centro in the car. Hopefully, there will be a 3rd-party app soon.

- No tethering. Also hoping for PDAnet for Pre

- Music player that handles .flac files. Coreplayer in Classic might be OK for now.

- datebk. Need to see if built-in calendar has enough features to not need datebk (floating appointments, templates, filters, links to contacts, etc)

- Sprint. Looks like the Pre will probably be coming to Verizon just around when I'm up for a 2-year upgrade. I have a family plan, so I can't just move one line to Sprint, even if I wanted to.


Others?

[SirBC]

300 people in line in front of me.

[em.eggers]

I know i would probably get crap for saying this... what apple is going to announce monday.

iPhone will have tethering for sure.

if they bring video chat to the iphone, im sold.

[JONNNathannn]

Nothing.

Also, this thread and topic has been done to death! However, Voicedialling and tethering can be done easy enough. As for Sprint, that's a + for me. If it was on AT&T or T-Mobile I would probably pass.

[coney27]

.... people not using the search option in the forums

seriously how many more of these need to be created?

[joelpalm]

Payday

[xchpstang]

There will be no video chat. Guaranteed. That would bring ATT's network to its knees. Like happens now anytime more than 10 iphones are downloading the latest Ifart app in the same room.

[em.eggers]

There will be no video chat. Guaranteed. That would bring ATT's network to its knees. Like happens now anytime more than 10 iphones are downloading the latest Ifart app in the same room.

heard of wifi?

[Chessh2036]

I know i would probably get crap for saying this... what apple is going to announce monday.

iPhone will have tethering for sure.

if they bring video chat to the iphone, im sold.

im pretty sure the new iphone will be bigger in size, have video recording and a better camera, a compass and some inner workings and thats it.

until the iphone goes to verizon, im staying away form At&t.... a iPod touch does EVERYTHING a iphone does, so I can 2 of both worlds... a Pre and ipod touch

[em.eggers]

im pretty sure the new iphone will be bigger in size, have video recording and a better camera, a compass and some inner workings and thats it.

until the iphone goes to verizon, im staying away form At&t.... a iPod touch does EVERYTHING a iphone does, so I can 2 of both worlds... a Pre and ipod touch

they need to add a camera to the ipod touch

[Ziggi]

300 people in line in front of me.

Amen to that brother...

[precrack]

webos on iphone, um... probably not still

[pdxtreo]

seriously how many more of these need to be created?

One more than the "Official Region" threads? The Pre hype is definitely off the charts.

[rposa]

- No voicedial. I use this all the time on my Centro in the car. Hopefully, there will be a 3rd-party app soon.

Don't care ... Besides I mumble..

- No tethering. Also hoping for PDAnet for Pre

One of my clients pays for a PCMCIA 3g data card. Why would I care.

- Music player that handles .flac files. Coreplayer in Classic might be OK for now.

It's a tiny device. 8g ram. Who cares .flac -- too little RAM. Use .ogg if it bothers you that much.. Get an iPod..

To answer your question -- nothing will stop me.

[pullbangdead]

Act of God.

[Xyg]

- Music player that handles .flac files. Coreplayer in Classic might be OK for now.

I still don't understand this one. FLAC is a great format, but does it really make sense on a device with a mediocre DAC through poor to medium quality headphones on a device with such limited memory?

The answer is No.

256kb/s MP3's should be more than adequate for this purpose.

[Excoriar]

If I should unfortunately, meet my maker.

[Stihl]

If there is some inkling of an inability in either the palm camp or sprint camp to quickly patch in those services which were left out due to time restraints. I'm not so sure how things will work with the WebOS in this regard, but with WinMo, if you had a problem, chances are you could go online and find a variant that solved it rather quickly (depending on your device).

The Pre probably won't lend itself to variants of course (although, I'm assuming it will be 'jail broken' like the iphone), but as long as there is constant developer support (and really, there is no reason there shouldn't be) then this should be pretty sweet.

I just don't want to have to deal with 10 or 15 niggling things that everyone knows are wrong or lacking with the device for months only to learn that Palm or Sprint wont release updates to fix them until the pre 2 is out.

[dsjr2006]

I still don't understand this one. FLAC is a great format, but does it really make sense on a device with a mediocre DAC through poor to medium quality headphones on a device with such limited memory?

The answer is No.

256kb/s MP3's should be more than adequate for this purpose.

I'm sure others won't agree, but I would like to see ALAC support and more storage, but one is much easier than the other to implement.

[sheltem]

I still don't understand this one. FLAC is a great format, but does it really make sense on a device with a mediocre DAC through poor to medium quality headphones on a device with such limited memory?

The answer is No.

256kb/s MP3's should be more than adequate for this purpose.

Precisely what I was thinking. In my opinon I don't think FLAC is worthwhile on ANY portable mp3 player. A well encoded mp3 using VBR lame should be more than enough. Personally I transcode my mp3's down to 128 bitrate to save space. I'm using a pair of $30 headphones on a cell phone for crying out loud, so I doubt I'll notice! Save the flacs for listening to music on a thousand(s) dollar speaker system.