Palm Pre First Impressions Review - Organizer

Synchronization & Push
The Pre will automatically sync contacts with your Google and Facebook accounts. If you update a contact's information in your Google contacts list on the web, the change will be automatically reflected on your Pre. If one of your friends on Facebook updates their contact information, these changes will automatically be reflected in your contact information on your Pre. Beyond this, Palm has not described PC or Mac desktop syncing compatibility and details.

Contacts
Your main contacts list is shown sorted alphabetically, and IM availability is immediately denoted by a red or green dot to the left of the contact's name. If a contact has multiple sources of information, it will be denoted with an icon showing a small stack of photos versus an icon of a single photo - this is illustrated in the screenshot below.

The contacts list showing contacts with multiple data sources

As mentioned above, the Pre will sync contacts automatically with your Google and Facebook accounts, and you can easily choose to link more profiles with a contact so additional data can be imported to augment it.

A contact linked to IM and Google profiles

Calendar
The calendar has multiple views, as one would expect in a smartphone, to provide you with various ways to view your appointments.

        
The Pre's month, week, and day views

If you keep multiple calendars, you can selectively choose which ones to view. If you have chosen to hide some calendars, the Pre will still mark your busy times by showing those time slots as shaded with a light pattern of diagonal lines. A wide stretch of open time in between appointments will be condensed and represented with paper crinkled accordion-fashion.

Selecting which calendars to view

Tasks
We can't imagine a Palm device without a tasks list and one is indeed in evidence in the Pre's Launcher though it was not featured in the demonstration we received.

The Pre's Launcher showing a Tasks application

Notes
The Pre's Notes application shows all notes in a thumbnail view. Palm has not provided information on the ability to sort and customize or other features.

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