Spacebar, the final frontier…

Ready to boldly go where few thumbs have gone before? Maybe you thought the spacebar on your Palm Pre Plus or Pixi Plus was just for inserting spaces. But behold! The multifaceted power of the spacebar:

• When using the calculator, just press the spacebar to see advanced operations like square root and percentage.

• After you hit the spacebar, your Palm webOS phone will auto-correct misspelled words, or turn phrases like “how r u?” into “how are you?” But if you prefer what you actually typed, just hit backspace to revert to your original spelling.

• Pressing the spacebar to capture a self-portrait picture in the Camera app will probably be easier than tapping the screen. And you can press it and hold down the spacebar to take a rapid succession of photos. (Handy if you want to create your own stop-motion animation of attacking Klingon Warbirds.)

Paul Araquistain, Palm PR

Comments

[Amy Sawyer]

I love this phone!! I have had an iPhone (i used it on and off)since they came out and I have used a Droid...Thank goodness I found this phone! I go through phones like a fish goes through water because I haven't found a phone that meets my needs...well I don't have to look any further! Awesome just absolutely awesome! Just wanted to say THANK YOU!!

[pixielee]

space bar WAS great for photos ... but ever since the video was added to the camera app, the camera app is SO slow and laggy, the space bar cant take quick consecutive pics any longer

[Brian C.]

Yay! I have been having the hardest time taking self pics! Thanks for the info!!!

[Eddie]

It'd be pretty sweet if pressing spacebar twice would do a period-space-capital maneuver.

[TeamKillerJKFFL]

Aww, I thought this was going to be about a bar in space. Dang budget cuts.

[Todd]

I agree that the photo app needs to be reviewed. The camera used to work fast but now it freezes and you can never get the shot you want. Palm needs to fix this. When I see phones like the incredible taking 8MP images with ease and no lag, it makes me think about switching.

Better yet, release a 1Ghz phone with WebOS.

PLEASE!!!

[Aurash91 Social]

I'm really excited about the auto-correct feature! But will this be implemented in webOS 1.5? or has it already been implemented in 1.4.1.1 and I just haven't noticed?

[Philip]

The Warbirds were Romulan, not Klingon. Great phones deserve great editing. ;-)

[Gyd]

How to switch the auto-correct off? I am using Czech language and we use "u" as the "by" in English. When I hit spacebar after "u", it auto-corrects the Czech "u" to English "you", which is a functionality, which I don´t really need.

[Raul Ramirez]

pueda ser que otros amen a su palm pre, pero en realidad es un prowducto que causa un gran dolor de cabeza y el servicio de asistencia es un verdadero dolor de cabeza. su producto esta en realidad en fase experimental y dejenme decirles que es un fraude desde que lo empece a usar nunca ha sido de mi agrado y para colmo ahora se me borraron mis cuentas del correo electronico. Procura No cometer el mismo error que yo y mejor no lo compres. Gracias