According to a couple of surveys of iPhone 3GS and Pre users conducted by RBC Capital and ChangeWave Research 99% of 3GS users are satisfied with their device as opposed to 87% of Pre owners. And of the 99% of satisfied 3GS users, 82% declared themselves very satisfied compared to 45% of Pre [...]
The battle between Palm and Apple over iTunes syncing continues with Palm’s release of webOS 1.1. The update restores the Palm Pre’s ability to sync with Apple’s ubiquitous media software that Apple knocked out with its iTunes 8.2.1 update. The move could signal an escalation in hostilities between the two companies and puts the ball [...]
The expected update to iTunes to disable the Palm Pre’s ability to sync with the application has occurred with the latest 8.2.1 iTunes update. Palm has been touting the Pre’s Media Sync feature, which allowed the device to trick iTunes into believing it was a native iPod. Naturally that didn’t sit too well with Apple, [...]
According to their presentation on Q2 2009 Financials, Adobe will be bringing their Flash 10 for smartphones into beta this fall on several different platforms. More notable, however, might be the platforms that weren’t included in the presentation.
Members of the PreCentral forums digging through the leaked webOS ROM have found reference to an unannounced Palm device with the codename Pixie. The story created quite a buzz, despite the fact TechCrunch broke the story back in April.
You don’t see the words “better than iPhone” knocking around mobile reviews very often. (The phrase “but it’s not as good as the iPhone’s” is practically punctuation at this point.) But you will see these words sprinkled, if not peppered throughout reviews of the Palm Pre.
It looks like the Touchstone charging dock and rubberized back cover for the Palm Pre have already gone on sale at some Sprint stores, although they aren’t likely to do anything that amazing until the Pre itself manages to hit store shelves on Saturday.
If you’re preemptively disappointed in your Pre’s keyboard, imagine how David Baker feels. The British inventor tells The Register that his Crocodile Keyboard was headed for Palm Pilots, but the project was scrapped due to “manufacturing costs.”
As we continue to learn more about the upcoming Palm Pre there’s now official confirmation the Pre will natively support iTunes media sync for non-DRM files. The confirmation came at The Wall Street Journal’s Furthermore, D: All Things Digital conference where Palm also revealed the Pre will be engineered to act as a mass storage [...]
Official Palm Pre documentation and hands-on reviews are finally ending months of speculation over exactly what this phone will do to simplify and streamline communication. Answers to those questions Palm and Sprint have anticipated on behalf of customers have been digitized as well as step by step Palm Pre activation instructions from deep within Sprint’s [...]
