Time for another update.  First up, apps!

Since the Pre released, several additional applications have appeared in the “App Catalog,” and I’ve been playing with most of them.

I got my Pandora account working on my phone after emailing support, and I have to say, it’s a great little app.  I put in a few of my favorite artists and just let it go.  The popup notifications on a new song are nice, as I’m generally doing something else while listening, and they allow me to easily control the player without switching applications.

I was also excited to see the Evernote app show up yesterday, but it seems to have a pretty glaring bug: I can’t scroll horizontally.  Most of my handwritten notes only show the left side on the Pre, and I can’t scroll across to see the whole note, nor can I resize the note or switch to landscape mode.

Also, Tweed started playing nicer once I turned off notifications, which prevented it from automatically refreshing in the background.

As for the device itself, I have actually been having some problems lately.  First, in the web browser, sometimes it won’t finish loading and/or rendering the page.  This happens both on Sprint’s 3G network as well as wifi.  Resetting the device fixes the problem temporarily, as does simply waiting and trying the browser again later, but it’s a very annoying issue.

The second problem I ran into was hardware-related.  After reseating the battery, my keyboard would not work.  The phone ran fine, and I could use the touchscreen, but not the physical keyboard.  I tried several things, including doing a factory-reset of the phone, but they didn’t help.  However, taking the battery out and reseating it again eventually fixed the issue.

Finally, since reseting my device, it doesn’t seem to want to fully sync over my Google Calendar.  It shows events more than a couple weeks old and events a couple weeks from now, but nothing in-between.  There are some annoying work arounds online, but I’m hoping the issue gets resolved soon.

So far, I’m still enjoying the device, even with it’s quirks, as I assume(hope) that most of these are being worked on and will be addressed in upcoming WebOS updates.