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Google Mobile team excited about Palm Pre 9

by Derek Kessler Mon, 08 Jun 2009 9:40 am EDT

Google loves Palm Pre With so much of their technology built into the Pre, it’s no surprise that the folks at Google are excited to see the phone finally make it onto market (even if it is oddly contradictory to Google’s investment in their Android OS). The Google Mobile Blog, which covers all things Google that are mobile, this weekend posted an entry discussing Google’s involvement with the Pre (Synergy contacts and calendar, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, etc) and how easy it was to port these in with the simple HTML, JavaScript, and CSS programming language of webOS. But the more exciting part of their post?

This is just the beginning for Google applications on Palm Pre. The good news is that since our applications are built using web standards along with Palm's MoJo SDK, we can iterate quickly and provide new functionality, often without requiring you to install anything new. We look forward to rolling out new features for our mobile applications at a rapid clip.

Thanks to Rene for the tip!

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9 Comments

Posted by StefanP on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:01 am EDT

Nice!!

Posted by mahootzki on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:06 am EDT

Saw this and got very excited. Was also wondering why they gave out such a barebones google maps unlike iPhone and android, but if they will upgrade it fast with latitude and subway ect. I'll be happy

Posted by en0x on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:12 am EDT

yeah google FTW!

Posted by gksspot555 on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:50 am EDT

Google is awesome! Its hard to wrap my brain around why they would do it considering they are competition but nonetheless its great news for mobile technology.

Posted by gharkay on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:57 am EDT

Yes! Let's hope they're at least beta Pre apps and not Pre-beta apps! :)

Posted by Katharine on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:00 am EDT

I think it's a smart business move -- not putting all their eggs in one basket, so to speak.

Posted by rdelfin on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 8:43 pm EDT

I don't think it's that odd for Google to be this open with competitor's device.

It seems to me that unlike Apple, Inc., Google's business approach is totally about openness and the more google apps they are able to make available to not only Pre but also BlackBerry, iPhone, etc (as they have been doing always and not keeping all this for Android), the more business Google gets to have... (is not out of their good hearts, it's all about market share).

Posted by amarillo slick on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 8:47 pm EDT

I am trying go get a second e-mail address which is hosted by Google Apps and I am unable to do so. Is there any suggestions. My primary e-mail is also with Google apps and I had no problem.

Thanks in advance,

Posted by Anonymous on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 4:45 pm EDT

Anyone has palm free yet how is it?

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