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PalmCast Episode 95 9

by Dieter Bohn Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:11 am EST


Dieter and Derek talk webOS, Verizon's new advertising, and speak of the iPad despite a chatroom rebellion.

Thanks to everybody for writing and calling in!

Show Notes

Thanks to everybody for writing in as well as everybody that participated live in the chat!

Credits

Thanks to the PreCentral Store for sponsoring the Palmcast. You can email the PalmCast at podcast@treocentral.com or leave us a voicemail at 800-557-6819 x222.

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9 Comments

Posted by texstoryteller on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:25 pm EST

Enjoy the show but I'm wondering why you want to keep the show under an hour in length. Why the rush?

Posted by peabrain on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:28 pm EST

looking at the show notes it seems that the brewing anger over in the GSM forums wasnt mentioned :(

Posted by Derek Kessler on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:44 pm EST

Anger about what?

Posted by peabrain on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 2:55 pm EST

check the GSM section :P
its a variety of things, from bugs (like time not correct ever!, alarm issues, calls getting dropped - there is a thread on this with error reports) to hardware issues, to apps (cos we have none, just loads of soundboards and crap!), regional settings (like the dollar sign instead of the pound sign when pressing currency) etc etc etc.

Posted by WaleE on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 4:12 pm EST

Derek and Friends: I was listening to your recent podcast. You guys talked about webos patches that made it easy to perform lunar restart, etc. You can achieve the same thing by simply holding down alt key +sym key + r. This key combination will perform a lunar restart.

Posted by rwhitby on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 8:38 pm EST

Actually, that does a complete device restart, which takes much longer than just a Luna Restart.

-- Rod

Posted by ctucker10 on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 8:46 pm EST

I got my Pre last Friday. Been annoyed over the lack of a scrub bar in the Music app. Now I find out that it was there all the time. Thanks for the tip!

Posted by sybermike on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:18 am EST

I took Derek's recommendation and did the megamix patch, It is awesome. I set the bright to 25% and turned everything off with ease. I have been running 2 hours so far downloaded 2 new apps and normal morning use and the battery is down to 91%


GREAT RECOMMENDATION


Update - 4 hours battery down to 74% still normal daily use, typically at this time I am placing it on the touchstone getting ready for my lunch break (very heavy usage)

Posted by PreCbands on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 2:22 pm EST

I've not commented before and was driven to it by the fact that despite comments like "there's not much happening this week" - but then the podcast lasts well over an hour.
Now you've gone and spoiled my rant.
Thanks

The most recent show was much better paced with less padding.

Keep the really techy stuff for links in the shownotes and keep it to an hour max. Hey Palm are great but they are not a huge company, there's only so much newsworthy stuff going on.

By the way, I'm in UK and I do appreciate your concern for non US users. Its a shame that Palm has such a low profile over here. I'm hoping the "Plus" versions arrive here soon (loving the tethering!) and a whole new pile of apps please.