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Palm Pre For Dummies
By: Chris ZieglereBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: For Dummies
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Everything you need to know to make the most of Palm's newest smartphone
Smartphones provide all sorts of communication options as well as the ability to manage your appointments and contacts. If you're new to smartphones, Palm Pre For Dummies gets you up and running easily. If you're a bit more savvy, you can delve deeper into more advanced elements, such as Synergy contact management and working with media.
The Palm Pre offers features that make it a top contender in the smartphone market. Its webOS system is designed for a touchscreen-based graphical user interface that facilitates many exciting new features. Palm Pre is a new smartphone specifically engineered for a touchscreen device and loaded with features to maximize the user experience This book helps you take advantage of GPS navigation, games on your phone, and media management Begins with the basics: turning the phone on, making and receiving calls, and storing contacts Covers applications for managing personal information and how Palm Synergy helps manage your communications Shows you how to manage and synchronize e-mail accounts, use the calendar, take advantage of Web site resources, and install new webOS applications
Palm Pre For Dummies helps you take full advantage of this new feature-rich device.
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| Release Date: 09-17-2009 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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Palm Pre For Dummies
Chapter One
Your Palm Pre: The Pre-fect Phone
In This Chapter
* Tracing the history of how the Pre came to be
* Understanding the difference between the Pre and webOS
* Finding out what makes webOS so very different
* Peeping behind the scenes with "the cloud" and your Palm Profile
* Understanding why the Pre is so powerful - and its limits
If you're reading this book, odds are very good that you have a slick, glossy, beautifully crafted, compact smartphone in your hand or pocket, or sitting on the desk next to you (conspicuously placed so that passers-by can gawk and ask questions, of course). And I can't say that I blame you for getting a Pre. Palm's latest handset (cell, phone, whatever you want to call it) is widely regarded to be the best-looking gadget the company has ever made - and arguably, it's one of the best-looking smartphones ever made by any company, period.
Of course, looks aren't everything (supermodels, movie stars, and purveyors of $300 haircuts can disagree, but then again, they're not writing this book). Long gone are the days when a phone could simply do a decent job of making calls and sending the occasional text message. Chances are that you're spending nearly as much time fiddling with your phone as you are with your computer, if not more. You expect it perform as the consummate electronic helpmate to organize your life; entertain you; and connect you with the people, places, and things that matter to you most.
Most importantly, your phone has to be simple and intuitive to use. After all, what's the point of a phone that can send e-mail if it's t
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