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by Derek Kessler
Nov 26, 2009
Through a strange twist of fate and a bit of hacking, some European Pre users aren’t getting the short end of the app stick anymore. While the vast majority of Pre owners on O2 and Movistar are...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 25, 2009
While user guides for the iPhone may be getting in trouble because they have the word “iPhone” in their titles, we’re seeing no such issues with the Palm webOS App Catalog. Landing recently in...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 25, 2009
If there’s one thing to like about online services like Google, it’s that they can update their stuff whenever they want. Google has a penchant for making small but useful updates to their...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 25, 2009
We’ve been trying to stay out of the public and increasingly bitter kerfuffle between Verizon and AT&T and now Apple over maps and coverage and whatnot, but now Big Red has just gone and...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 25, 2009
It’s a veritable cornucopia of appitude! Yesterday brought us several new apps along side a couple dozen updates to existing apps As is standard procedure nowadays (yay!), it’s too long a list for...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 25, 2009
As we know that some of you have noticed, webOS 1.3.1 changed the way that email is handled with respect to POP access. If you’re not familiar with POP (Post Office Protocol) email, essentially...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 23, 2009
One of the things that we liked about the App Catalog in webOS 1.3.1 was that it would be able to tell what device it was running on and subsequently adjust the apps listing to compatible apps....
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 23, 2009
While every update to webOS has brought speed improvements in the form of cleaned up code, Palm Pre phones across the globe have been limited to running at 500 MHz. That is in spite of the fact...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 23, 2009
We guess you could call it a Black Friday sale, and it’s awesome. Shoppers at Best Buy on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving will be able to grab a Sprint Palm Pre for the low low price...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 23, 2009
It’s a small blurb in a Reuters article mainly about BlackBerries in China, but here’s the important part for us:
"China Telecom aims to sell BlackBerry handsets and Palm smartphones in China by...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Nov 23, 2009
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Color us skeptical, but right now we have little reason not to believe PreCentral forum member Casperstar and the above video that he posted. Yes, that is a Palm Pre playing...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Nov 22, 2009
Curse these late night app drops! So, late last night we got a smattering of updates and new apps, but you know there’s only so much we can expect for the weekend. Apps are apps, right? So what...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 22, 2009
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While we wish that the App Catalog would get the same sort of return period that the Android Market has, we wouldn’t count on it. So how are we to know if the app we’re looking at...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 22, 2009
While the Palm Pre may be launching on Friday on Telcel (Mexico’s largest cellular network), other networks in the nation are snapping up the Pre as well. In fact, if you go to Iusacell's...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 22, 2009
Next week the holiday shopping season officially kicks into gear, and while this blogger has yet to even consider what to get most people on his list, he can at least tell you that if you’re...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 21, 2009
The other day we brought you word of how Palm Profiles were disappearing across the nation after users reset or replaced their phones. While Palm stated that they are aware of the issue and are...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 21, 2009
Tired of the back-and-forth over iTunes sync and webOS? We don’t blame you, and frankly we’re a bit tired of it too. The folks over at MediaMonkey have a solution for us: the latest version of...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 21, 2009
Going into yesterday evening we were prepared for Friday to be another app-less day, but Palm had other plans for us. Yesterday we received more new apps than we usually see in total updated and...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 20, 2009
We’ve been expecting that Europe would get ‘parity’ by the end of November, and that doesn’t give Palm much time to get it done. If you follow the O2 Pre closely, last night was a confusing...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Nov 20, 2009
We at PreCentral receive a lot of tips throughout the day, but more and more over the past few weeks our inbox has been flooding with stories of users having just reset or replaced their webOS...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Nov 20, 2009
Many developers are hoping to leverage Palm’s webOS App Catalog for financial gain much like has been done on the iPhone App Store. With a significantly smaller install base than the iPhone,...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 19, 2009
Following up on his recently-released Altimeter app, Rob of 185vfx has put together a new application that we’re happy to preview for you today: Attitude. Just as Altimeter is based on the...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 19, 2009
Market research firm IDC has for years been compiling data on the best-selling smartphones in the US. While their numbers from the second quarter of 2009 ranked the Palm Pre at #8, in the...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 19, 2009
Apps apps apps! We all know they’re important, and the developers behind these apps would agree. Palm knows that they’re important, that’s why there’s an App Catalog on the device from the very...
REVIEW
by Derek Kessler
Nov 18, 2009
While most clip-on cases add some protection and color to the Palm Pre, the Body Glove Faux Nylon Case for Palm Pre takes it a step further by adding some textural visual flair. Sporting two...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 18, 2009
Yikes, what a title! There are five different systems out there to get apps, patches, and themes onto your webOS phone. With each choice comes different features and abilities, and pretty much...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 18, 2009
Right now there’s no good way to sync or backup your data from SplashID on webOS, which is otherwise a perfectly good app. But without any way to backup your data, you’re left in a lurch if it...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 18, 2009
While the $25 deal at Wirefly is nice, they don’t draw anywhere near as many customers as Walmart does, where the Pixi is going for $29.95. The one retailer that has any hope of customer levels...
Article
by Derek Kessler
Nov 18, 2009
The prospects of a cloud-connected phone were obvious from the day that the Palm Pre and webOS were announced. Apart from being always connected, having all your data backed up in multiple...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 18, 2009
Palm hath giveth. After the dual update let-down that was Monday, Tuesday came in full force with not only a whole basket full of updates, but with several new apps to boot. It’s a long list (...
