If you’ve been holding out for a better price on the Palm Pre, perhaps this latest deal on Amazon will tickle your fancy. If you can handle the two-year contract, you can pick up the Pre for under $100 – without having to send in a rebate form. Interested? Head over to Amazon.
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 [...]
Apple’s iPhone SDK and App Store have created a thriving community of developers and a strong market for applications. And that took Apple a year to make public after the release of the original iPhone. Just over a month after the release of the Pre, Palm has released the Mojo SDK which allows developers to [...]
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.
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.
The hype has hit the masses and some may love it, but one expert is not impressed. Boy Genius Report also notes Palm Pre “feels a little cheap” even though the size is perfect and holding the device feels good overall although a lot lighter than expected.
It’s really not good. My hands aren’t that big [...]
While Palm won’t hesitate to tell you how easy it is to write code for the Palm Pre, there’s a heap of apps that existing Palm users will have trouble living without. By emulating the Palm OS on the Pre, MotionApps Classic will make the switch tolerable for said users while the developers scramble to [...]
While only VIPs have had access to the Mojo SDK until now, Palm have started taking applications (no pun intended) from the rest of us who want to write applications for the Palm Pre – complete with an assurance that you’ll “see how easy it is” once you’re in.
When Dieter Bohn from PreCentral got a demo of the third-party apps available for the Palm Pre at CTIA, he saw an interesting app called “Classic”. When he asked what it was, and tried to open it, Palm’s representative pulled the phone away and said “We’ll answer that one later”. Video after the jump, with [...]
