More PalmOS Apps Shown on the Pre 6

by Annie Latham Mon, 01 Jun 2009 3:39 pm EDT

MotionApps is doing their best to sell folks on the fact that they've come up with a way to run classic Palm OS apps on the soon to be released, webOS-based Palm Pre. In this short video , they show Agendus (the Task function of this personal information manager), the DayNotez journal for Palm OS, the HandyShopper tool for managing your shopping lists, and eReader (explaining that books already collected can still be used).

To learn more or to let the MotionApps know which classic apps you want added to the list of Classic Certified, go to www.motionapps.com/classic.

Note: In case you missed it, here is our interview with MotionApps.

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Posted by cookgoose34 on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 4:05 pm EDT

The folks who will be depending on motionapps to port over their palm os apps over to pre i am happy for all of you.Me personally i will only be using webos apps i love future thinking tech.

Posted by hertzi on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 4:21 pm EDT

An other question just pops into my mind - if Agenda on the simulator works, does that mean that they can read from the Calender database and the book 'Palm webOS' was wrong? (see http://www.precentral.net/new-rough-cuts-chapter-previous-chapter-causes...)

Posted by Q on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 5:22 pm EDT

Classic includes calendar/contacts/etc. equivalent to the ones on the Centro. Agendus, Datebk6 and similar apps are connecting to that, not the WebOS apps (though I'd still like to see a one-way "export to WebOS" function in Classic).

Posted by DrewT3 on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 5:24 pm EDT

Classic wasn't written with Mojo so I don't think it wouldn't have Mojo's limitations with the calendar. It might have it's own limitations though.

Posted by Colonel Kernel on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:31 am EDT

Bike or Die LIVES!!!

Curious that Bejeweld2 is there. Womder if that means there's no webOS version?

From what I understand, no Classic app will interact with any webOS app. Classic is just the bridge that gets us Grey-Beards to go willingly into this new operating system, so we shouldn't expect it to go too far.