New in the App Catalog for 01 December 2009 36
by Derek Kessler
Wed, 02 Dec 2009 7:07 am EST
Wed, 02 Dec 2009 7:07 am EST 
In less than six months Palm’s webOS App Catalog has hit 500 apps, 508 to be specific. How far we’ve come from the heady launch days of only a few dozen and only free apps at that. And how far we yet have to go. So before we get to the list of apps (after the break, as usual), we’d like to take a moment to give a shout out to all the developers that have worked with Palm to make this happen. Without you and your patience with Palm and the evolving App Catalog, we’d never have reached this point. You guys rock.
New apps:
- Boggle by EA, $4.99, by Electronic Arts: Race against the clock to find the most words in your jumbled letter grid.
- Coool-Drinks, $1.49, by science apps: Calculate the time and temperature you need to cool your favorite drinks. Congratulations to Homebrew Graduate boucles0!
- Locate-A-Rama, Free, by 8-bit development: Search around you for nearby points of interest.
- Memory Master, $0.99, by RabbitByte Software: A pattern recall game, like Simon Says.
- optionsXpress Mobile, Free, by optionsXpress: Monitor your investments, stocks, options, and futures all from your webOS device.
- Picasa On Phone, $1.99, by Tinybolt. Access all public and private Picasa albums from your phone.
- Space Alarm, Free, by Fu: Set an alarm to go off when you approach a GPS point.
- Sunrise Sunset!, $0.99, by Brett Cato: GPS-based sunrise, sunset, solar noon, dusk, and dawn timer.
- VLC Remote Free, Free, by Hobbyist Software: Control VLC music player from your Pre, demo version with only playback controls.
Updated apps:
- Awake2Music, $1.99
- Cool Tip Calculator, Free
- Jobr, Free
- Mosquitones, $0.99
- MyQ For Netflix, $3.00
- P2Snippets, Free
- Photo Fun - Spot The Difference (Free), Free
- Photo Fun - Spot The Missing Pieces Free, Free
- Photo Fun: Spot The Difference Pro, $0.99
- PicFlick, $0.99
- Radio Hibiki, $1.89
- SMS MMS Email Emoticons, $5.55
- Super Hangman Pro, $0.99
- The Weather Channel, Free
- Timebits, $3.99
- WeatherBug Elite, $1.99
- Word Whirl, $2.99
- ZIP Code Tools, Free
36 Comments
And GSM users get these when ? Come on Palm ! At least tell us when you might bother to make the apps catalog useful to anyone outside the U.S.
This isn't Palm's fault. Call your provider and complain to them about it to get their butts in gear.
And only a little over 100 for GSM users
come on palm, us UK users want more, whats the problem? we are english language i dont see the issue
173 on my GSM :-( still waiting to be able to buy applications :-(
Maybe it's your grammar?
is this comment necessary?Maybe,you're too good for this community!
Necessary, not really, but funny, yes!
66 apps in Germany!
Palm doesn't seem to care much about what language you speak... you're either European or US. And as for Europeans they seem to be taking a "share your sorrows"-approach. No matter if you're from Spain, Germany or the UK, we're all just screwed.
Anyway, what I find most intriguing about all this, is the fact that Palm doesn't even bother to comment on this issue. They silently slipped the new app store country filtering into the long awaited 1.3.1 update for the GSM Pre. If they'd announced it beforehand, we would at least had the option to wait and not install the update for now (but I guess that is the point). But even being forced to accept the new apps cut back, they could have taken a step forward and told us when to expect a fully working app catalog again or why they did this or whatever... any kind of announcement on behalf of Palm would have been nice.
Not saying anything at all and slipping such big "surprises" into the updates is certainly a good way to not jeopardize sales in Europe, but it's also an excellent way to REALLY PISS YOUR CUSTOMERS OFF!
I'm puzzled too - why isn't Palm in Europe giving European users a roadmap, or reassuring us we're part of it? Or even O2? For a smartphone that sells on apps, in a marketplace defined by apps right now, the silence is baffling.
And as for being able to run your 'Classic' apps over here...
I'm a developper and i want to sell my apps in U.K, spain and germany, but it is not possible ! I can only submit free apps worldwide.
66 Apps in Germany.
still 66 more than all those ppl with a german quertz pre outside german o2 network..
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Weird thing just happened...ever since the 1.3.1-update most of those AppStore-applications were gone on my German GSM-Pre (among them Bubbles and Chess for WebOS). My App Catalog currently clocks in at 66 applications.
So for a change I tried the update-function, to see what might happen, and: lo and behold, it "updated" Bubbles, Chess for WebOS and PhotoDialer. The last one failed, but the other two were suddenly available to me again! So if an installation prior to 1.3.1 gets updated, I have a chance to get it back? Very weird, and most likely not intended like that.
See screenshot: http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae141/Partvision/photos-temp-0jpg.jpg
For the last three days I have been able to access the App Catalog, but anything I try to download tells me that the App Catalog is unavailable, try again later.
Wonder if they simply cut off all PR users from installing even the free apps in there.
Always try a Reboot (Opt + Sym + R) if you are having issues as the first fix.
Palm is finally releasing some valuble apps. Most are just games, that I will never buy. I guess that the way with all app catalogs.
The "App Catalog is unavailable" usualy means Palm does not recognize your device or that the app store is being updated. Try restarting your device. Somtimes that works for me. Last time I bricked my Pre, it started with the app catalog not working.
Valuable? I see little of value to me. Certainly nothing that compares to the quality of applications for my Treo. God, I can't wait for someone to provide a phone that does everything better than my Treo, instead of 1 or 2 things better, and a thousand things worse (like the Pre), or quite a few things better, but still many things worse (like Android).
Amen...... I Miss my Treo 700p
i don't know squat a bout treos. Don't care much either. but can't you use classic to run treo programs? So shouldn't you miss nothing application-wise? That said i agree with your general sentiment about the quality of apps.
Yes, thank you.
I couldn't agree more about the quality of the apps for the Treo. I have only found a couple of Pre apps that are really useful to me, compared with dozens of Treo apps. If I had it to do over, I would have stuck with my Treo and waited to see what else comes along in smart phones. BTW hate the keyboard, and the slip out feature. I would rather a configuration like the Pixe.
Good God, this is ridiculous. You're comparing a OS that has been on the market for over a decade with probably millions of man hours behind its development with a nascent OS that hasn't even hit its first birthday yet (and has had developers developing on it en masse for maybe half a year) and you're complaining about it not having the same caliber of applications? WELL, NO SH*T.
If your Treo is so fantastic, keep using it and stop moaning on EVERY SINGLE PRECENTRAL POST about how terrible the Pre is and how awesome the days of yore were with your amazing Treo. To be clear, I can appreciate the sentiment of what you're saying, but you wrangle every damn article into an opportunity to whine about your Treo. We get it.
mastercko, your analogy is wrong. When the Treo 600 came out, 10 years ago, it was then perfect, better than anything out there, and its subsequent apps that showed up made it even better. When the Treo 650 came out, it beat the pants out of the 600, it still had everything we expected from the 600 but added more, newer, more intuitive new ways to improve the functionality of the device and your life. Apps that followed made it even better. This is not the case at all with the PRE. NEW, with a lot of hoopla about its new OS, etc, etc, but it was like a dog barking like a Great Dane but peeing like a puppy. To make matters worse, its apps SUCK! Worse, you can't even download them
If you never had a Treo, then you can't know how it feels.
If you are used to eating bread and water, I guess a regular hot dog would be an improvement for you. But when we you are used to eating steaks, and you paid for what you thought was a new Fillet Mignon, you would get upset when what you got was actually a freaking Hot Dog.
And it's not a matter of just going back to the Treo because we are stuck with a 2 year contract, and in my case with two of my sons on a new system (Sprint)from AT&T, worse on a unit that you paid $200 and a few months later its value has degraded by 1/2.
And, so, I will complain in this forum until hell freezes over with the hope to turn potential Pre wannabees away from crap, and so that Palm, maybe, realizes what a fckp job they have done and what it is that we want and expect. If you don't complain, you will continue to get hot dogs even though you paid for Fillet Mignon. If that's ok with you, may I suggest you move to Cuba, Russia, North Korea or China; they don't complain over there either. So, everyone gets crap; you'd love it over there!
No. Fail. (BTW, I didn't make any analogy, but instead a direct comparison of two actual things that actually exist: Palm OS and WebOS)
By the time Treo 600 came out (in 2003, btw, not 10 years ago), Palm OS was already at or near the edge of its functionality. The OPERATING SYSTEM (read that again. The operating system. That is the core of my argument. Not any one individual device that ran said OS.) had been developed and developed and developed some more and honed to a fine point.
Yes, its functionality was impressive, but that didn't come out of thin air with this one magical device. It came from iteration upon iteration upon iteration of improvement from the years before.
As a retort to your silly ad hominem, I will say that I have owned a PalmOS powered device from the days of Handspring through Sony Clie and Palm Treo so I have seen this improvement first hand. After the Treo, I basically gave up on it because by that point, the OS was done and wasn't really being improved any more. WebOS brought me back.
I won't address the last part of your "argument" because it's ridiculous, though I suppose the shame is on me for even acknowledging it.
So, in short, your argument is invalid.
Boo hoo. Cry me a river. As a Canadian Pre owner that runs CDMA and has had his phone for far longer than any of the European Pre owners, I am limited to only 149 apps compared to your 173. You don't see me throwing a prissy fit.
Get over yourselves guys. You sound like school girls who didn't get chocolate for lunch.
I'm at 99 apps on O2 Ireland, and have no access to paid apps. I shall cry all the rivers I want.
i'm on 400 and something and most suck ass. don't get your hopes up. You're not missing a darn thing.
Plus...everyone here (outside of U.S.) are complaining EXACTLY the same way impatient U.S. users complained before the apps starting flowing. Patience!!!
For those of you looking for a way to view your Picasa albums, try out the "Picasa on Phone" app. I've been dying for an app like this for awhile and it works great. Just keep the resolution at "Low" or "Medium". Setting the resolution to "High" made my phone lag. At "Medium" it runs flawlessly though.
I'm wondering if and when we sill see Apps like ESPN game center or an app from SI. I love my Pre amd all but it's getting frustrating. It's getting frustrating having a phone this good with no great apps. Yea yea I know it's only been out 6 monthes. In 6 monthes we should already have some good sports apps.
There is a reason the Palm APP center is still in beta. Apparently, there are a few hiccups with the app distribution system (thanks to apps being tagged with what country they are meant for).
However, I don't think Palm should be expected to comment about beta software. It is a temporary problem and should be fixed soon.
blah...snoozefest yet again..how hard is it to deliver an even halfway decent game..ugh..
If it's so easy, I would encourage you to pick up a keyboard and get coding.
Once Palm releases a better SDK and opens up the GPU we'll see much better.
Why would you buy a platform called webOS, which uses javascript/css/html to build apps, and expect "halfway decent games"?? There's a few webApps for games out there already. Games using native code won't come for quite some time, I'd imagine.
i doubt most cellphone users or potential consumers even understand what those three sentences mean. They are just regular people. They expect games cause the leading competitors have games.