Last week I told you that making phone calls is only a small percentage of what I've been doing with my Palm Pre Plus that Verizon is letting me test drive.This week I have two more reasons that this phone makes mommy multi-tasking possible.
Camera
Us moms like to capture memories, but if you are like me you have enough stuff to lug around and the big camera usually stays at home.
The Palm Pre Plus phone comes equipped with a 3 megapixel camera to catch those kids whenever and wherever they do something picture-worthy. (Just being cute is reason enough to snap a photo!)
When you slide the phone open, it reveals a mirror on the upper fourth of the back side of the phone. I have heard other moms say it's great for applying lipstick. Since I don't wear lipstick daily, I'll tell you why I think the mirror is good.
Sometimes when I take photos of my monkey children, they look everywhere but at the camera lens. Or my son wants to come around to my side of the camera so he can see what's on the screen. With my point-and-shoot, I hold up two fingers near the lens and tell them to look at my fingers.
With the Palm Pre Plus, I had the bright idea to tell them to look at themselves in the mirror!
Needless to say not only did they look toward the camera lens more often than not, but seeing themselves produced more smiles and giggles.
A feature of the Palm Pre Plus that some other smart phones do not have is a built-in flash. This is great for lower light situations.
I'm not sure if the photo quality is good enough for printing (I honestly haven't tried), but it is incredibly easy to share photos. I don't print out too many photos anyway, but I do like to share them with the kids' grandparents. The Palm Pre Plus makes it very simple to e-mail photos. You can also download them by connecting the phone to your computer with the included USB cord.
(Have I told you that I like the power cord because it doubles as a USB cord? I so appreciate not having yet another cord to wrangle!)
Video
When I first received the phone I thought the major flaw was that it doesn't have video. Well, they've solved that problem with a software update that became available in February. WebOS 1.4 adds video capture to the phone!
Take videos of the kids (or anything for that matter). You can download them via the USB cable, upload directly to YouTube or Facebook, or even e-mail it to Grandma.
I thought that the colors in the video were vivid and I had no trouble trimming the video down to about 20 seconds to e-mail. The file is an MP4 that can be downloaded by the recipient and I watched my videos using QuickTime.
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This was written by Leighann who can be read at Multi-Minding Mom where she dishes about family, food, foraging, frivolity, and more!
Please read our disclosure statement. I wrote this review while working on a Verizon Palm Pre Plus campaign by TheMotherhood.com on behalf of Verizon Wireless and have been given a Palm Pre Plus (and prizes for giveaways) to facilitate my review.
