Unofficial patch lets you hang up Palm Pre calls by closing the slider
By Donald Melanson 
posted October 19th 2009 5:46PM
posted October 19th 2009 5:46PM
You know how easy and natural it is to hang up a call on a cellphone by sliding it closed or flipping it shut? It's a small satisfaction that's been lost on touchscreen-only phones, but it would seem to still make sense on something like, say, the Palm Pre -- just not to Palm, it seems. Well, it looks like unofficial patch maker KeyToss has now finally stepped in and done what Palm hasn't, and produced a patch that does nothing more than let you end a call by closing the slider on your Pre. Who knows? You might even start hanging up on people just for the fun of it. Hit up the link below for all the necessary details on installing the patch.
Ya, but there's been many other blogs that are even more meaningless and it would still be a good news blog day. So therefore I fail to see why people will comment their opinions that it's soo slow in Engadget that they are going to post a minuscule article, when even PreCentral.net posted it because it's actually a nice feature to have. However Engadget is damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Awesome to get some love from Engadget!
Much credit goes to the developers at WebOS-Internals, who are pushing the open source thing for the Pre, and to the PreCentral community. There are plenty of other great patches and apps coming out of there.
Agreed! I enjoy the phone as is, but that community is just hacking away, making the phone better and better. I'm patiently waiting to see what they are doing with the Video Recorder. I doubt it will be long until someone figures out a GUI and easy slip method to get it done.
Curious you picked up this story, of all the Pre patches/homebrew apps that show up daily and are arguably more useful. Like a blinking LED for SMS/e-mail/etc. notifications.
totally agree, not to mention, no shudder click, 4 by 4 icons, call logs, message logs, customize notifications, dial pad vibrations, text forwarding, hiding icons, disabling call alerts during calls, etc
i too am kinda surprised this gets a column.
Not very practical. It's awkward to close the Pre without putting a finger on the touchscreen so everytime you hang up on someone you're going to button mash them a nice chorus of dial tones before the phone closes.
If you're holding it like a phone, you put your index finger above the top of the phone and push the front section closed. It's not hard. The only time you need to touch the screen is to open it.
Plus I have no problems flipping up the phone while on call. I believe the phone does recognize that there is screen contact and that the slider is also being pressed, thus ignoring the screen contact all together and no buttons were pushed.
It's a fact that the phone does count how many times you've opened and closed the slider. Anyways point being, and speaking from experience, there's no issues opening and close the phone while doing anything that would result in a unwanted key press on the touch screen.
Love all the patch's!
Go away, China!
yeah ... so suprised that the sliding-bottom-end-call feature isnt native to the device.. .then again .. I remember my silly BB Storm muting my calls cuz of my ear, or smiling cheeks .. lol
like the Pre ... hope they continue to make it better and better.
For Pre owners:
Has the phone froze up on u? I might buy this since I'm on Sprint, just wanna know
For gods sake, you guys don't even get any calls or have any phonecontacts to call, so why the whole blaaa...
wont work on EU Pre cuz you need WebOS 1.2.1 :-\
NEED ... ... UP...DATE.
what about 1.3?