Today was the day the SIM went in and the full immersion was to start.
After yesterday’s random reboot problems were solved, there was still a niggling issue with performance. Touch responsiveness has always seemed sluggish and reactive, and according to precentral (again) this was because of detailed logging being switched on by default. If one dials #logs#* a secret preference card is opened allowing you to turn down log levels. And miraculously bring your Pre3’s performance up to iPhone 3G levels.
So, with a moderately quick and non-rebooty phone in my pocket, I headed out shopping.
And realised I had no contacts installed…
As a committed resident of Disney Land, my contacts/calendars/etc are all sync’d with iCloud. and as I was out, there was no option of a physical sync with my MacBook pro.
No problem! I’ll just point the browser at iCloud.com and grab the numbers from there. Nuh-uh! iCloud is to webOS a fortress of impenetrability. In the end, I gave up and headed home to sync.
No joy there either! The Pre would appear as a USB disk on the mbp, but there was no obvious place to put a vCard of contacts. Email to the rescue! After emailing the vCard to myself, I could ingest the 1200-odd contacts into the Pre with a couple of taps. (I know, google contact integration is native, but I’ve never fully trusted SkyNet to safely sync my calendars & contacts with my mac, so it’s never had much more than gmail-ingested addresses in it.)
With the contacts safely ingested, the rest of the day went surprisingly well, with only one random reboot near dinner time after installing the ESV Bible. (Maybe HP don’t like literal translations..?)
On that note, the App Store 😉 is understandably like a shopping centre from the movie 28 Days Later. There’s clearly been some early good work gone into it, but after the Zombie Leopocalypse it appears to have been trapped in stasis.
Facebook works okay, as does phnx (twitter) & Evernote, but enough staples of my daily workflow are missing to be annoying. WordPress requires webOS 3, and there don’t appear to be any remote desktop tools.
Also, Australian number formats confuse poor little Miss Pre3, and the bing maps app seems to be terminally dysfunctional.
But apart from that she seems useable.
The evening was spent SDKing and jailbreaking, but that’s a story that can wait…
