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Review: RF3 ENVi Natural Wood headphones

While webOS devices do a great job supporting Bluetooth audio, there are times when you may want to go wired rather than wireless, especially if you're at all concerned about exposure to electromagnetic

App Review: Archive Manager

While the ability to ZIP and UNZIP files directly on your webOS device has existed in homebrew via command line (or embedded in apps like Save/Restore from WebOS Internals) for a long time, the release

TouchPad Go Video Review

In a hurry and don't have time to read our entire review of the unreleased and unannounced HP TouchPad Go? That's fine, though we'd recommend that you find the time to read about this rare seven-inch webOS

Review: HP TouchPad Go

Design:Smooth and sleek, the TouchPad Go is the original TouchPad, but smaller. It’s an understated kind of look.

App Review: VoogleXL

Following in the footsteps of their last application under the Voogle banner, webOS World, the creators of Villo.net, have recently pushed out a new app for TouchPad owners, appropriately called VoogleXL

Review: White 1.5GHz HP TouchPad

Design:Look at your black TouchPad. Imagine the plastic back being white. Tada.

Review: HP Pre3

Design:Takes Palm’s old river stone obsession and kicks it up a notch. It’s smooth and rounded in a way that makes the original Pre seem clunky.

App Review: A1 Tasks Pro

When PreCentral user bedhan asked on a recent comment thread about where to find a great task manager on webOS devices, I knew that we were on the right track. As the first of several task management apps

App Review: MLB.com At Bat 11

As the Boys of Summer head towards the Fall Classic, and magic numbers start lowering, baseball fans who want to catch every last minute of the action and pour over every stat and piece of news, will still

App Review: QuickOfficeHD

The ability to edit Microsoft Office documents on our webOS devices has been promised to us "soon" literally since the original Palm Pre announcement at CES in January 2009. Later, the read-only version

App Review: incredible!

It has been more than a year in the making, and incredible! is finally ready to hit the catalog. Geoff Gauchet (the developer also known as "Zhephree") has sent us the final version of his social streaming

HP Pre3 unboxing

As far as unboxings go, this one’s a little bittersweet. It’s the HP Pre3, and the phone’s release has been so truncated by HP’s decision to cease building webOS hardware that we had to import the phone

Review: Touchstone compatible Otterbox case for Pre Series by Touchstonemods.com

As miraculous a technology as is the Touchstone, it has forced a choice on some users: whether to use the Touchstone or some non-compatible peripheral such as a case or external battery. Steve Burlbaw

Review: Three HP TouchPad sleeves

With HP's announcement that it is discontinuing production and sale of webOS hardware including the brand-new TouchPad, those of us who intend to keep our TouchPads anyway are even more concerned about

App Review: webOnEx

Ever since Exhibition mode was released in webOS 2.1, one of the features that has been missing has been the ability to keep a website loaded up live in exhibition. This can be useful for sports fans who

App Review: Wall Switch

Doing a search for "Wallpaper" apps in the App Catalog that switch your device's background yields dozens of results ranging from free to $5. While all of these apps will provide you with different categories

App Review: 1+1=2 Feature Calculator

If you are a developer and you decide to write a calculator app, you need to make sure that you bring something unique to the table, especially if you are going to charge for the app. After all, there

App Review: Camera for TouchPad

This review is based on the unreleased version 0.2.9 of the Camera app and contains many updates not in the version currently in the App Catalog

App Review: Paper Mache [for TouchPad]

If you are an Instapaper user and a TouchPad owner, Paper Mache is a must-own app for you. For those not familiar with Instapaper, it is a free service that allows you to mark websites that you want to

App Review: Glimpse [for Touchpad]

We all know that the webOS and the TouchPad are the kings of multitasking when it comes to tablets, but you can now take that one step even further by purchasing Glimpse by Inglorious Apps. Although it

App Review: SecuStore 2 [for TouchPad]

MakleSoft has been making plenty of news this week. They're giving away 100 copies of Plancastic for webOS smartphones, they've released Advanced Browser for the TouchPad and are giving it away this week

App Review: toodleTasks HD

Task management has been a core functionality baked into Palm’s DNA since it's humble beginnings in the early nineties. Certainly for the average Mobile Accomplisher, having some method of organizing a

App Review: Gemini File Manager [for TouchPad]

If you were to ask our PreCentral readers for the best File Manager app for webOS, everyone would probably respond with a quick answer of Internalz by Jason Robitaille. Of course, Internalz (and the homebrew

App Review: Image Worker Pro

In the category of image editing software on webOS, there are only a few fully featured apps in the catalog that process your edits directly on the device. We have previously reviewed Photo Effect Pro

App Review: Amazon Kindle Beta

Just as was promised back in February, the Amazon Kindle Beta app was released yesterday on the official hard-launch day of the HP TouchPad, and from the looks of it, many of you have already installed