New iPhone info annoucend today

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I like having my fave tweeterer's tweets come straight to my fone with an on-screen alert, so I just upped my text plan to unlimited.

Everyone says that by far the best feature of the Palm Pre is how it does alerts, so since the Sprint plan comes with unlimited texts I may do the same when we get our Pres (9 more days!!) just to take advantage of that.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Everyone says that by far the best feature of the Palm Pre is how it does alerts, so since the Sprint plan comes with unlimited texts I may do the same when we get our Pres (9 more days!!) just to take advantage of that.

True, but the first thing I did was figure out how to get it to stop telling me I had new tweets. The flow is sufficiently constant for me (and my list isn't that big) that it is essentially pointless to be told. So I just keep the tweet app running and hit refresh whenever I have a moment to care (having 15 windows/apps going at a time is the most valuable feature of the Pre for me -- though I have no idea how multitasking is handled on other phones).

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

(having 15 windows/apps going at a time is the most valuable feature of the Pre for me -- though I have no idea how multitasking is handled on other phones).

Poorly. If notifications are the best stylistic feature, multitasking is the best functional feature. The iPhone barely multitasks at all (you can play music while using another single app, but that's it). Our Moto Q's with Windows Mobile sort of multitask, but it's cumbersome to switch between apps and the apps inevitably crash while multitasking so it's not so useful.

15 is impressive. <----quote material

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Everyone says that by far the best feature of the Palm Pre is how it does alerts, so since the Sprint plan comes with unlimited texts I may do the same when we get our Pres (9 more days!!) just to take advantage of that.

Beware - many Sprint users have trouble with Twitter. My cell is through virgin mobile and on the Sprint network and it spontaneously stopped communicating with Twitter in Feb. No one knows why, except that this happens a lot with Sprint customers.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Prudence

Beware - many Sprint users have trouble with Twitter. My cell is through virgin mobile and on the Sprint network and it spontaneously stopped communicating with Twitter in Feb. No one knows why, except that this happens a lot with Sprint customers.

Been with Sprint the entire time we've been on Twitter and, other than when Twitter itself was having issues or the client was having issues, we haven't noticed any problems.

[lindyhop]

When I switched from Sprint to ATT a few months ago I was no longer able to access Twitter from my phone. Never figured out why.