One Pre, two thousand photos (and counting)

Thomas Lopez (@tmomaslomez) has been busy with his Pre. Last night he tweeted "My fav photo from our trip to SF http://post.ly/1Gav nearly 2k more taken with my Pre."

Check his photo gallery and you'll find he's been busy -- and has been producing some high quality as well as huge quantity.

Got a favorite photo from your Pre? Post a link in the comments (or upload to our Facebook fan photo album). 

Jon Zilber

Comments

[Rick]

This is when it'd be nice to see some Flickr integration. Get all those photos to where everyone can see them without having to send one-by-one.

[pcojem]

The hardware is cheap. Can you concentrate on hardware for palm pre next time.

I am at the tail end of my iphone 2g contract.

[Joseph Greist]

It’s a shame; I’ve used and depended on Palm systems for years. Now I have to drop Palm systems due to the fact that you have chosen what phone network that has to be used with your systems. It is a shame, to never use a palm system again because of the phone carrier. J.A.G.

[Vicky Mahn-DiNicola]

The Palm Pre has changed my life....both professionally and personally. First, it is the most intuitive user interface (for a phone) I have ever experienced. I was up and running within a couple hours of buying my Pre. Previously, I had the HTC Touch Pro (nothing professional about THAT phone!). What a difference!

As far as work, I'm amazed at how simple it was to set it up to auto-synch with my work email, calendar and contacts. I didn't have to contact 17 people in my IS Support Department to set it up! The speed at which I connect is incredible. The touch screen makes it so easy to flip through emails while I'm in boring meetings...just with a discreet flip of my finger! I'm not sitting there keyboarding away and distracting everyone else. I'm just casually "checking in" and no one knows the difference!

My husband and I both got Pre phones. This might be rather silly but we work in different cities...so for us, staying connected throughout our day is important! I can send him pictures of the kids and grandkids without a major "download and synch" task at the end of the day. I just grab my phone in the kitchen while I'm playing with the kids...take a GREAT picture (so clear and crisp) and within two or three "touches" (not clicks) my picture is attached to an email to friends and family. They think I'm a "grandma freak" bragging about my kids....but its just so easy its hard to resist!
Before the Pre I thought having a camera attached to your phone was a silly waste of time...but I have downloaded these pics from my Pre straight to Walgreens to share with friends and family that don't have internet...and they think I've hired a professional photographer!! Its amazing!

OK...I'm a Pre fan!!! If I wasn't being paid so much for my "day job" I would quite and do commercials for this phone!! It is so intuitive, so user friendly, so "right on"....I commend the product managers, the developers and QC folks that worked so hard to make this product a success!!

The ONLY recommendation for improvement I have is that I wish my memos (AKA "NOTES") would also sych up to my phone from Outlook. That would be great but there are work arounds until you come up with an elegent solution.

Thanks again for everything your team did to design this phone! And even MORE thanks for using the Palm OS system and not Microsoft -- the evil empire has no business on phones as far as I'm concerned...and the HTC Touch "Pro" (not) is an example of this failure. I also want to commend the Palm Support Staff. These people are AMAZINGLY supportive! I actually get to "TALK" (in English!!) to someone when I have questions and my issues are resolved seamlessly. I can't say enough about the way they effectively and efficiently work together as a team to resolve problems. WAY TO GO PALM SUPPORT TEAM!!!!! YOU ROCK!!!!!

So best wishes for a successful launch of your product! I'm a confirmed believer in your products and services now that you've launched the PRE!!

Kindest Regards,
Vicky Mahn-DiNicola

[MilesTRane]

hmm - how do you post on the facebook page - i see no way to upload to the fan gallery and I've friended palm

my fav I've taken and a small gallery here
http://www.jonvanhala.com/Jon_Vanhala/Photos/Pages/Cell_Phone_Shots.html#1

[David J. Ferrell]

I was wondering if anyone knows where the memos that I store on my Palm Pre are located? I need to back them up AND I need to have that data so I can put it on my desktop etc. Thanks, David J. Ferrell

[Palm, Inc.]

Hi David,

Memos are automatically backed up to your Palm Profile. If you ever lose your device or decide to reset your phone the memos will be restored once you sign back into your Palm Profile.

If you need to transfer a memo to your desktop computer, just open the memo on your phone, then swipe down from the top left corner (to bring down the app menu). Tap on Email Memo and it'll compose an email which you can then send to yourself.

Justin Ried

[Quentin Feduchin]

I would like to reply to David J. Ferrell and maybe one or two others about Palm Memos and about 'searching' in the Pre range.
Palm Pre and Palm Pre Plus are not perfect in two important ways:-
1) All previous phones by Palm actually came from Handspring who developed the Treo series. A feature of this series was that EVERYTHING was searchable, whether Names, Addresses or the Notes attached to those Names. With the Pre (webOS) series this was discontinued: ONLY the Name or Company is searchable, NOT the Addresses and NOT the Note details. This can make it very difficult to find something; for example one might know the suburb or city, or one might remember a detail in the notes, but the Pre does not search those areas. This is a SERIOUS omission, I kid you not! However you can get around it by syncing by various means with Microsoft Outlook where you can indeed search all those areas. Why not in the Pre? I have asked Palm but their chat line agents do not know.
2) The Memo file in the Pre is completely impossible to access. You cannot back it up to your PC, or to a file, or by printing the whole thing, or by saving it to a CSV file, or by converting it to another format, indeed you cannot do ANYTHING either TO it or WITH it. It is ONLY backed up to Palm, and THEY cannot give you a copy of what is backed up in THEIR system!! My STRONG advice is: NEVER USE IT. I have over 500 notes in it that have accumulated over the past 15 years and ALL the additions and modifications made since I bought a Pre two years ago are potentially lost if I move to another make of phone.
YOU CANNOT GET AROUND THIS AT ALL!
Download another Note taker and IGNORE the existence of Memos altogether!