The NFL, Sprint TV, YouTube, Nascar and Amazon.com are not a universal interests of phone users, nor are such related applications on Palm Pre necessary. Sprint needs to make these applications optional on the Palm Pre since there is not memory card expansion on the device. Do any Palm Pre users agree? If so, please contact Sprint through this forum or otherwise to have them make these applications option. Again, anyone agree with this suggestion?
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Definitely concur...was looking for where I can remove those apps...can't believe there isn't some method...aren't they just like any other app?
I dont agree. :> Apps dont really take up a lot of space themselves from what I understand.
You don't like these, someone else doesn't like something, another doesnt like something else and so on. There is no pleasing everyone and all the apps you mention are free with unlimited use so I will use them now and then.
The phone has to come with something afterall.
Rich
Rich,
Thanks for your comments. I would like to say though, just because one cannot please everyone doesn't mean a company cannot improve a product to please more people with modifications. Your logic would make a bad business model for any manufacturer.
Sure it's great that they offer any freeware. It's nice that you use some or all of them from time to time. But Sprint could please more people if the applications were optional to keep. With the change I'm proposing, you can keep yours and be content as you are now; but also, I could delete the ones for which I have no use. Id rather not have unwanteds taking up launcher space and memory (no matter how little they take). My proposal would keep content customers like you who like the current software and my proposal as well would please people like me who are as of this moment less so. Products that please a wider range of customers are sure to have higher rates of customer satisfaction and therefore rates of purchase.
Again, I do appreciate your comments and welcome the debate. Thanks for chiming in.
I think these apps should come with the phone but I wouldn't mind seeing the capability to delete them if they're unwanted. Also, it might be useful to note that Sprint is partnering with Palm for this phones. Sprint doesn't manurfacture the phone it self. So in order for it to be fixed, Sprint has to talk with Palm and the efforts will need to be collaborated. May be just as useful to voice your opinions to Palm the company as well.
I have a Samsung Intrepid and finally figured out how to delete these programs. I don't know how similar it would be for the Palm Pre but I will share it.
From the Start page (the one that looks like a desktop);
>file explorer
>windows (if you don't see this folder, make sure you are looking on "my device" and use the right soft key that says menu and select show all folders)
>start menu
>programs
Highlight the programs you want to delete and send them on their way.
You can remove items from the start menu this way by cutting and pasting them to another folder.
When using the Windows Mobile Device Manager, I haven't figured out a way to "show" the windows folder so I am having to do it all on the device itself.
Good idea TurtleFire, but know that I did start at the Palm site where they have a very nice dedicated Suggestions link for improving their services and products. At that site the moderator said that the permanence of these applications was at the request of Sprint and that one should contact Sprint about making them optional. Again, the idea is that Sprint should offer them, but not prevent users from removing them.
thanks for you comments.
wh
Sprint customer service, please read the following :
I am a loyal Sprint customer, have been for almost 10 years. When I got the Pre I was drooling for in June, I was a bit dismayed. I, like many others, anticipated the capabilities to be so much more. I understand the newness of the product is a learning curve for all. I get that. But, I wasn't ready to have You-tube, facebook, NFL and NASCAR forced upon me. Granted the aps take up little room, but the Pre only has so much to begin with. I am not interested in what some sales rep in in Chicago or Missoula thinks I want. Microsoft thought we all wanted to use Windows Media player. Apple thought we all wanted to have them maintain sole digital rights to our music. There are many other examples of this, but they all have the same ending. They, who thought they knew what we( the customers) wanted, were wrong, and in one case, lost their collective butts in a world class lawsuit. Please give us loyal customers, who have trusted you, stayed with you through thick and thin, who are essentially your beta testers on the PRE, have control over what the device, I paid good money for, has on it. I am not interested in NFL, NASCAR or other garbage, and everytime I see it on my phone, it irritates me that I cannot delete it. I paid $600 for my pre, and think I have a right to control what is on it. Would be like buying a loaf of bread, already having jelly on it and being told I can put anything I want on it, but the jelly stays.Some may like the taste of jelly with ham, I do not.
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