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My dads palm has just packed up and he wants a replacement. For him the most important feature of the palm was being able to search everything (contact memos tasks whatever) quickly with the built in search function. He's dabbled with windows pdas and some work smartphones but none of them worked aswell as his palm.
His ipad won't do what he wants so presumably iphones won't be much use either. So what options are there? Any android stuff?
Immense battery life, fast input, fast on/off and reliable OS would be nice too, you know all the stuff that came as standard with Palms but seem to be lacking on smartphones.
the search function on ipad/iphone is pretty comprehensive?
swipe left on the home screen to bring it up
Still using my Palm, have found unlike every woman I've ever met it never lets me down!
Oh errr, that's not what you were talking about? 😕
iPhone man, get with the times! 😉
His ipad won't do what he wants so presumably iphones won't be much use either.
not sure what his other requirements are but the search function on the iphone/ipad certainly handles the "search everything" bit.
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My Crackberry also has a "Search everything" function. Just start typing a word/name from the home screen and it shows all the possible options, narrowed down as you keep typing. So, if I look for a name, it shows contact card, birthday in my diary, recent calls, recent messages etc, etc.
I'd imagine that almost every decent modern smarting phone would have the same.
Got a Palm TX somewhere if he wants to replace it?
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I was a long time Palm user - 3, 3e, Tungsten T. Think I had an M500 for a while when I broke the T. Tried a windows smartphone for a while but always struggled then ended up on a Blackberry for a while but the iPhone is the first device that's really superceded it for me. For long battery life/low price might be worth thinking about an iPod touch rather than an iPhone and just syncing when there's wifi.
I'm not sure than 'search' looks at every contact field so might need some thought about which fields he stores data in (might be configurable?) but there must be apps which fill in the gaps.
I'm using Remember the Milk as a todo list though theres a native apple 'tasks' app now. I've not tried it but Evernote is meant to be really useful for notes.
Well I thought mac finder thing was normally pretty good (I'm not a mac user tho) so I told him to try to do the same stuff on his ipad and if that is OK get an iphone, he said it didn't do the business, will check with him what exactly wasn't working.not sure what his other requirements are but the search function on the iphone/ipad certainly handles the "search everything" bit.
edit could be what simon said about searching all the fields
andy interesting, how much? mail in profile if you prefer that.
cheers simon will look at those
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Capital P for Palm, come on guys.
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iOS's search, very frustratingly, doesn't search the phone number field in the contact details. So if you have a phone number and want to find out who's it is you can't.
Works on other modern phones that I have tried, so why not the iPhone.
Don't know why is doesn't work though, would have thought it would be trivial for Apple to fix.
680 -> 700 -> BlackBerry Curve -> iPhone (tomorrow, fingers crossed).
Palm pre ?
or one of the HP equivs they're shifting now ....
There is no decent Palm replacement available, they are all shiny media consumption toys now... I don't miss the sync issues though.
Blackberry has worked for me for the last seven years. I certainly didn't miss my Palm all that much when I replaced it.
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is that a shim for when your "seat post" is to small for your "seat tube" druidh?
iOS's search, very frustratingly, doesn't search the phone number field in the contact details. So if you have a phone number and want to find out who's it is you can't.Works on other modern phones that I have tried, so why not the iPhone.
Not sure how you'd find yourself in that situation, but just dial the number on the phone and it will match it against the contacts (and you can cancel the call before it actually rings at the other end).
DONK YGM.
Andy
Missed call on the landlineNot sure how you'd find yourself in that situation,
Unrecognised number on itemised billing
Aye - Tis a work around. But there is always the danger that it will connect and it is a faff.but just dial the number on the phone and it will match it against the contacts (and you can cancel the call before it actually rings at the other end).
Don't see why Apple don't just make that field searchable, as it would be sooo easy.
In an iphone just type the number in on the dialler screen and if it's in your contacts the name shows up below.
But there is always the danger that it will connect and it is a faff.
It's a mobile - you've got about 3 seconds to cancel the call before it connects. 😀
Anyways, greggparker9 is quite correct, you don't actually have to try and connect the call - it shows the matching contact name when you just dial the number (i.e. before you hit the green phone "Call" button)