No alarm support on the palm pre? WTF?
Feb 16, 2009 in General Family
A post over at http://www.precentral.net/palm-pre-eyes-plus-plenty-pre-questions-answered
Do they mean no waking up to a beep beep or your favorite MP3? Sucky but whatever…
Or do mean no reminder noise?
This is my signal greatest frustration with the iPhone, the nag/reminder functions total suck. Worse then suck they are almost non existent, and what is there is useless (accept oddly the timer alarm the piece of code written for real people). There is zero range of customizations for how aggressively you want to be found/reminded it chirpes/vibes at you once for a notice then goes dark and silent never to heard from again. This sucks and drives me completely crazy. Particularly combined with the screen going dark on the cradle and having no LED, there is no way to tell you have a notice without handling the dam thing, and you know what? Fondling my phone every 5 minutes to see if I missed something is not the top of priority list.
I want a reminder system for if missed this or that and especially a calendar system that completely rocks (the palm had a ok one but there where add on apps that made it incredible).
I want different escalating aggression levels set on a event class.
Missed call, vibe, noise every minute for five minute repeating every 10 minutes decreasing the interval so it goes ape constantly after half an hour.
SMS, single reminder vibe chirp every 10 minutes after new arrival notice/vibec/hirp.
and so on.
Keeping people aware that they have data waiting in HUGE, visual indicators alone suck and rely on this this weird constant fondle idea and that your phone is never off in a office somewhere charging while you live your life (blasphemy, I know). This is a area where the iPhone completely missed the boat and Palm has a chance to swing back hard,
Yet I hear no alarm and I’m seriously starting to panic. I may go back to my treo 650 because of how ‘sick’ I am of missing stuff on my dam iphone.
There also better be voice control over a blue tooth for headset for dialing… but that is another rant for another day (voice control should be embedded and threaded through th entire device, they need to move beyond what Apple did with just touch and master voice instead).