Palm Pre: Migrating Your Palm OS Data
Filed under: Cell Phone Information, Cell Phones | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
For all you Palm owners with new Palm Pre smartphones, we have found a very useful article which explains how to migrate all your Palm OS data as well as music and videos over to the Palm Pre.
As PCMag explains, transferring everything over to the Pre won’t be an easy task, due to the Palm Pre’s new WebOS system. As a result of all the new tech within the Pre, your old software such as Palm Desktop, HotSync, and third-party apps will not be compatible straight away with the Pre.
Luckily, PCMag have compiled a guide which will aid you in transferring all your important documents and media files over to the Palm Pre. We’d say it’s pretty essential for all Palm Pre owners to read. Let us know how you get on.
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This is a good start. Why? I had a samsung palmos phone for years. As the batteries were going bad, I decided to treat myself to the cream of PDA’s, the blackberry. I assumed that since it was used by high powered people, it worked. I looked for weeks on how to “find”, have “private” data, and those obvious things which a PDA needs. Well, there is no doc on comparing the demented blackberry to a palm phone. I found that there is no security, no hidden data, no find command, etc. Unless you are looking at email. So, the blackberry PDA is just a toy for exec’s to get email and watch movies. OK, maybe they even talk on it..?? Geesh.
I had to ask my phone company - how do you dial a phone number on my Pearl when they give you letters. You see, blackberry’s “help” is a tree structure. You cannot search or find, you spend hours chasing down dead branches to find things. Well ……. you can’t. What a hoot! I thought (since they have the funky 2 letters/key keyboard) that they certain have a display for a regular phone so you can at least see what numbers go to what letters. Nope.. nothing. {So, try to tell me that the blackberry pearl is a serious phone when it can’t even dial 1-800-toyphone… HA!}
Well, I have the opportunity to get a palm pre — grabbed the user guide. Surprise! No security data, no nice PDA functions, etc. [I did come across an article from 2001 saying that palmos security is only for the casual observer, however.]
So, has it become that no one needs secure information with them? No one actually NEEDS a PDA? These phones are just toys and maybe, if you have a techy buyer, the phone will actually be used to talk?
I’m disappointed and a bit shocked that, apparently, nobody needs to have passwords, account numbers or anything private in a secure way. Am I out of sync or have these “PDA’s” just turned into cute toys instead of work-related tools?
Hence, I am grateful that you have pointed out some of the migration differences, although, again, no mention of “hidden data” or private or secure, etc.
Thanks for the article… — Joe B. [Maybe I should just buy new batteries and go back to my 7 yr old, big, samsung phone?? HA! ]
You are perfectly right. I am also disappointed with new devices and after trying some WM, as well as Symbian devices, and reading about Blackberry, iPhone, and new Pre, I am repurchasing a second hand Treo 680. Palm, why did you betray us? Why did you discontinue the best OS for personal data management?