MobileCrunch has posted up a short article about how you can take screenshots on the Palm Pre. I never thought about that even being possible. I had read that to take a photo, you can use the space bar on the keyboard.
Well, according to MobileCrunch, they've learned that to take screenshots with the Pre, you simply hold the Orange, Sym, and P keys as seen in MobileCrunch's pic above. And voila, you have a screenshot of whatever is on your screen. Sweet!
I'm always needing a screenshot app for articles and reviews, and sometimes they can be a real pain. For example, the screenshot app that I'm currently using on my Centro has the "return" key mapped to take a screenshot. So... whenever I'm writing a memo or other text document and hit the return key to go to the next line, my Centro takes a screenshot instead. So I have to go and disable the screenshot app or map another key. On my Treo Pro, I have the Windows icon key mapped for screenshots, and that works so much better.
But Wow, how great to know that the Pre will have a built-in screenshot feature! That will really come in handy to lots of people.
Here's how behind I am on knowing stuff about my own iPhone. MobileCrunch mentions in the article that you can take screenshots on the iPhone by pressing two buttons. I only recently learned that you could do that when I got the free app Whiteboard. And even then, I figured that the screenshot capability was just something inside Whiteboard. I had no idea that I could have been taking screenshots all this time on my iPhone. Duh!!
Anyway, with the Pre, luckily the Sym and P keys are both on one side of the keyboard or it would be like playing "Twister" with our fingers in order to take a screenshot on the Pre. I'm not sure exactly how many people would actually use the screenshot function, but I bet a lot you reading would. How about it? Anybody use screenshot apps often, and what do you think about being able to take screenshots on the Pre by just pressing some buttons as opposed to buying an app for that?
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a little difficult?
your left thumb on the Orange key
your right thumb on the Sym button
then curving your pointing finger down to press the 'P' key...
I think it is great, it beats running around trying to find an app for that when you need it. And it can't be any harder that hard resetting my touch diamond...
Palm's version of the 3 finger salute :)
You can easily do the same thing with an Iphone or Itough, simply press the center button with the screen off button at the top of the Iphone at the same time, then voila... So don't think the Pre is the first one to come up with that.
You can easily do the same thing with an Iphone or Itouch, simply press the center button with the screen off button at the top of the Iphone at the same time, then voila... So don't think the Pre is the first one to come up with that.
I use BugMe on my Centro to take screen shots. What's really cool about it is that you can also annotate the screen shot and add alarms to it. Check it out at http://electricpocket.com/bugme-palm/.
I like this, I would always like to have taken some screenshots but I didn't want to bother in finding an app and then doing the extra necessary steps to get to it. I just wont bother with it.
Atleast now I can take some with no effort.
how do you do screen shots on a treo pro
I've been wanting to take screenshots on my Treo's for years. Only recently did I find a solution - and it intrudes on the image by inserting a link to the creator's website.
At times I've wanted people to know how an application looks on my phone, but it can be quite a hassle to get a camera, take the pic, transfer the pic, upload it, etc.
Having that functionality built into the phone, already, sounds great. Imagine making a tech support call and having difficulty trying to tell the person what your phone's screen says or does at a certain time. Then the tech support person says, "Well, just hold down x, y, & z," and send that to me by pressing this that and the other.
It's a great option to have built into the device. I hope there are plenty of others just like this - the kinds of things that many have said users shouldn't have to go hunting for.
I'll probably use it some, at least for a few blog entries on how much I (will) like my Pre.
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