This is exactly why Palm has abandoned it userbase. They really let us down.Wow, I'm glad I stumbled upon this thread. It looks like there are some peeps who seriously know what they're talking about. Companion Link just may be what's needed to make the Pre work. I certainly hope so. With more than 30,000,000 palm devices sold before the Pre came out it blows my mind that Palm didn't pay more attention to their vast customer base. I got a Pre 20 days ago. For the most part, I see potential in it, but, unless important functions are available soon I'm going to have to take it back.
Here's my situation (and I'm sure I speak for a few hundred thousand palmOS users who are/will be in a similar situation). I have almost 17 years of data on my Treo 755p. That includes more than 15,000 calendar records (with attached notes), 3,000 contacts, hundreds of memos, and dozens of tasks. Thanks to original palm engineering, along with Datebook Plus, I have virtually instantaneous access to all facets of data on the device and I run my life with it.
For example, even with so many records, I just now pressed a one-key shortcut to the "find" feature, typed the first 3 letters of a last name (g-o-e), pressed "ok" and in exactly 1.7 seconds I see four entries on my screen for an old acquaintance with the last name of Goetz. The top entry is 11/27/93. That was the first meeting we ever had. Attached to that entry is a little envelope icon. A press of the icon immediately displays pages and pages of notes I took at that meeting (all editable).
The second entry is his contact information, along with an attached note containing quite a bit of personal information. Entry 3 is a separate memo record I created about Goetz. His name doesn't even appear until the last line of the 5,000-character memo, but it came up on the universal FIND. The fourth entry is a third-party app filled with highly confidential "Goetz" info I entered 16 years ago. Also in that record I see a 10-year-old message to myself regarding my most recent use of that data (but it won't be my last).
I am unaware of any other OS in existence that would do all of this at such speed. And, since the "Pre" can't do this, how about CL transfer into webOS "Classic?" Can I 'CL' transfer ALL of my palmOS data into "Classic" and keep all of the palmOS functionality? If so, please let me know and I'll buy CL right now. I'll just use my Pre as a Treo until Palm can figure out how to make the Pre as advanced as a 4-year-old Treo.