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05/16/2009, 12:01 AM
#103
So I did actually read pretty much everything in this thread that didn't have to do with security...I am not paranoid or overprotective about anything but I do realize that enough people are concerned about security that I'm surprised it's not making a dent with Palm.
Aside, sort of: I had written a long message to the pre central people hoping they could give some answers (guess I should have came here first!) and then pasted my message into a note widget on my Dashboard. When I went to copy that, I hit paste instead and deleted it... womp womp.
So anyway, sorry for digressions. Someone before said something that I think really helped my state of mind, it was something like: stop thinking about how you're going to get there and start thinking about where you want to go TO.
I currently use a Treo and it holds pretty much my whole life, in 3 parts. My contacts, my calendar, and my memos (everything else is just an easier way to get to stuff, like the internet and maps etc). I sync all the info to my computer and I consider this very important.
I'm very excited about the Pre and don't really have a problem with the cloud system on its own. However, it would mean a lot of importing for me. Why? Obviously: because all my information is on my phone.
Why? Well the biggest one is the phone numbers. I don't mean to judge anyone and I'm not because I don't really have a problem with other people doing this, but it seems kind of useless and a waste of time to me to enter all my phone numbers into, say, Google (I <3 gmail) rather than my phone because, being phone numbers, they are most -- and really only -- useful on my PHONE!
Calendar and memos are important because I take them with me everywhere. My treo/palm desktop calendar are my primary (practically only) calendar.
Okay I will stop spouting things that are not really new information to you (although having to RELY on getting all your phone numbers from locations that can't actually CALL people seems pretty damn silly to me). Here are my thoughts.
I think all my concerns can be alleviated with happy answers to 2 questions:
1. Can I get all my information from my current treo/palm desktop onto my new Pre (something Sprint would probably do for me. How about that pd backup file?)
2. Where do these items then get backed up to? i.e., WHICH CLOUD?
In other words, if a contact or event gets entered into the Pre by some method other than Google or Facebook or Exchange or whatever, does it go to one of those clouds? A special Pre cloud?
Because I realized what my main concern is, the answer to "Where do you want to get TO?" and it's simply to manipulate this information on my computer. To look at my monthly calendar in a managable way (impossible on a phone screen) and enter data on my big convenient computer and not with my thumbs on my cute little phone. It seems that if I can find a simple way to get all my current information over to, say, Google, I could suck it up and get used to using google the same way I use Palm Desktop.
The other concern is to have it consolidated in one place on my computer. Because if I would switch to Google, but then I have an event in facebook (please tell me my "maybe" events won't show up on my phone -- aka REAL LIFE -- calendar), the only place to see all of them is to take the phone out of my pocket, right? Or am I mistaken, which I hope I am.
My phone is where everything important gets consolidated. I may have 10 events on my "facebook calendar" and told one of my freelance bosses, via his Google calendar, that I am free 10 hours this week, but only when I look at my Treo or Palm desktop do I see what is actually happening in my life. I sure hope I can do that on the pre!!!
Sorry for longwindedness but I'm hoping that you wise people will understand what I'm saying and tell me somethings that will make me feel better about getting a Pre, since I've been spending most of my internet time checking it out!
Thanks all.
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