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Here’s what I think Palm’s slogan should be: “Multi-tasking. We do it on our computers and in our everyday lives… why should our phones be any different?” Sadly, their commercials feature some creepy chick talking about jugglers and mind reading. Oh, well.

When I read about multi-tasking on the Palm Pre, it looked cool. When I played with the mult-tasking feature in the Sprint store, I thought it was really cool. But when I LIVED with multi-tasking, I realized I would never own another phone that doesn’t do this. It doesn’t always work perfectly… sometimes there are issues with lag but once you learn which apps are resource hogs you get the hang of how to operate with it.

Here’s some real-world examples of how I use multitasking…

“Day-to-day”
I consistently have email, texting, Twitter, phone, and my Palm OS emulator (for my medical apps) open at all times. No need to search for buttons or menus. Just flick and I’m there.

“The Drive”
A while back my boss drove me down to New Orleans. I SIMULTANEOUSLY…………
– Ran turn-by-turn navigation with spoken street names (thru car speakers)
– Ran Pandora (also thru car speakers)
– Sent MMS messages to my folks
– Tracked my wife’s flight to Puerto Rico in real-time, using FlightView
– Viewed a PowerPoint presentation
– Sent that powerpoint presentation via email to a colleague

“Ordering Pizza and a Movie”
Just the other day my wife called me from the road to ask where she could get a movie rental and pick up a pizza in her area. I SIMULTANEOUSLY……….
– Ran my Google maps which found the nearest Blockbuster and pizza place to her,
– Ran Flixster and read Rotten Tomato reviews of different movies
– Texted my wife back and forth with my recommendations.

“Email + Messaging”
I can have both my email and texting apps open, and copy/paste from one into the other

“No Wifi headaches”
Here’s a big one! I can enable/disable Wi-Fi without leaving the web page I’m on or the email I’m trying to download. Just touch the top of the screen for the menu and I’m done!

Here’s an interesting Palm Pre vs. iPhone Twitter comparison I read: If you’re tweeting on the iPhone, and want to email a post, you have to:
1) Click the email hyperlink.
2) Twitter app closes.
3) iPhone email app opens.
4) Send email.
5) Close iPhone email app.
6) Open Twitter app.
7) Navigate back to the Twitter post of interest.
On the Palm Pre, you can simply leave Twitter open, and simply flip over to email and back.

just wish there were more OFFICIAL apps