Palm Pre: Calendar

Really useful video! I don't actually own a Palm Pre but your video was the only way I could find out whether it will work with my Google Calendar the way I want it to (looks like it does by the way) before buying one. Thanks for the clear explanation.

You have to use another program as the "desktop" component, but you can get color-coded categories. I love my new Palm Pre.

I finally got the colors! I went to my Palm Pre, got my calendar and press "calendar" like if I were sincing, then find and press "Calendar View Options" and there you go! COLORS!!! Yeah! Anyway, thank you so much. What other feutures you have discovered that you like, I am sure I am missing a bunch of stuff. Thank you for your help!

Re: Color-coding
Using the Google Calendar feature in my Gmail account, I created 8 "subcalendars" or categories. My Pre assigned colors based on the alphabetic order of the categories, and I'm pleased to have access to *some* color coding options! I now use Google calendar in place of my old Palm Desktop, and syncing occurs automatically. I am told that Outlook calendar can also be used for this. Note: Desktop software isn't available for the Palm Pre, but it syncs with these other programs.

Hello! Thank you for posting your comment. I am very interested in knowing how you did the colors, I am dying for colors!!! Can you let me know?

Set up a Gmail account, and become familiar with Google Calendar. Create up to 8 calendars (the # of colors that Pre supports) each with a separate color that the Pre uses. Under Google Calendar's "show all" view, you can see one consolidated calendar with color-coded events. Then add your Gmail account to your Pre and the calendar appears (you may have to Sync). ...more...

...You'll have to spend a few hours getting the colors to match just right, and learning some of Pre and Google's strengths and limitations, but it's totally worth the initial time investment when you get a beautifully color-coded calendar that is very functional. Keep in mind that "month view" will not show colors, but this is true of all smartphones I tested.

Thank you so much. It is helping me. However, I notice if I erase an event in my Palm Pre when I sinc it, it does not erase in my Google calendar... It is taking me a while to set up colors, but excited about it. Who in the world thought about taking away the colors!!!??? Men, that was a bad desicion. Anyway, any advice?

Hmmm... Maybe the event in question is under "palm profile" and not under google calendars? I don't ever assign an event to "palm profile" for that very reason. Yeah, it takes a while to figure out how to make the colors match on both the device and desktop, but you'll get it! Enjoy!

@xola1111 This is one reason i have no gotten one yet, I will not buy anything that doesn't have a monthly view like the Palm OS calender, i could find anything in seconds just cause of colors. I have about 10 different colors. When palm updates it or makes an amazing app, Then i will buy