Jeremy Phillips

So the Palm Pre is finally available to order online and I am in need of a new phone finally. Navigating through Sprint’s site I find and click Select, thinking it will let me buy the phone.

Nope, that would be too easy. Evidently my current plan – Everything Data Share 1500 – is not on the list. Now I get to call Sprint and get them to change my plan to one with the same features at the same price – but with a different name – so I can purchase a new phone. This bites.

Edit: Yep, surely enough the only difference is the plan name. This is the plan I’ll have to change to.

I upgraded my Sprint Q9c to WM 6.1 last night and so far have been fairly impressed. The exception would be that I lost all my personal settings but everything I really care about is synced to Exchange, so it was a quick 10 minute reconfiguration.

There are quite a few things I absolutely love;

1) The Delete key in E-mail is the left soft key again. I was pissed when I moved from WM5 to WM6 and found that I had to hit Menu -> Delete -> Yes every time I want to delete an e-mail. I get 40k messages a month and while the majority end up in the correct folders via rules, I end up deleting quite a few out of my Inbox manually still. This has made my life simpler.

2) I’m not sure if it’s true but that data seems a bit snappier. I just ran this speed test with the phone tethered to my laptop. I used to get in the mid 300s down when tethering. Even ActiveSync connections appear quicker somehow.

3) Threaded IMs – THANK YOU! This is an amazing feature, turning txt conversations into IM like conversations. Amazingly simplifies my life.

4) The new home screen. This is just beyond cool and amazingly useful.