Giving up on the Pre - WebOS 1.3.1

I updated to WebOS 1.3.1 last week for my Palm Pre and have been experiencing several issues. First of all and most annoying are the random resets where the phone shuts off and takes 2 minutes to start back up. Secondly the phone is a lot slower opening apps and scrolling through pages on the launcher.

On the plus side you can now forward texts without having to apply a patch - Whoo hoo! Not really worth the resets and slowdown. I like to take care of my phones especially when they are as poorly constructed as the Pre; however, the snap on cases are ok but if you have to take them off to pull out the battery and reset the phone (which I have had to do several times after the update), then the tabs that hold the case on will break and there goes $30.

I am seriously considering going back to the original Samsung Instinct for a few weeks to see if I can make the adjustment back after having a true smart phone for several months now. I am starting to come to the conclusion that I should just have a phone like the Instinct and just get a netbook for internet surfing and watching movies. I want a phone with a battery that lasts longer than a few hours. Some netbooks can get 10 hours with the lower end being 4 hours. I carry a backpack of some kind around most places so I can easily bring a netbook with me.

With the increase in demand for performance from cellphones the batteries aren't really able to reasonably keep up. Until they come up with a cellphone battery that charges in 5 minutes or lasts for 24 hours of talk time, then I'm probably going to stick with something like the Samsung Instinct.