palm
Software

Palm’s WebOS 1.4 Update Is Live With Video Recording And Flash

You know that webOS 1.4 update for Pre, Pixi, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus that we’ve been talking about since January? The one with video recording and Flash 10 beta and some other stuff? It’s live. [Palm]

February 19, 2010
Mobile

Exclusive: TheStreet.com’s Tech Exclusives Are A Crapshoot

TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz has an exciting exclusive: Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar learned that Microsoft’s working on a Microsoft-branded phone based on Windows Phone 7 Series OS. It’ll be manufactured by HTC, and software problems postponed its release into 2011.

February 2, 2010

Palm Pre Plus GPS Might Be A Little Janky

Reports are surfacing that GPS navigation on the Palm Pre Plus is a little janky, with full A-GPS only working with the (recently updated to 5.0) Verizon Navigator app, not Google Maps – locks are inaccurate and slow.

January 31, 2010
Gaming

Play Game Boy On Your Palm Pre With VisualBoyAdvance

If you’re a Palm Pre owner who’s been craving some old-school distraction, rejoice! You can now play Game Boy, Game Boy Colour, and Game Boy Advance games on your smartphone.

January 21, 2010
Mobile

Palm Pre Plus Review

Sprint customers: If you’re worried that you bought a first gen Palm Pre only to watch helplessly as Palm released a better Pre on Verizon, stop. The Palm Pre Plus is essentially the same phone as the Palm Pre.

January 8, 2010
Mobile

Palm Pre Plus Hands-On: Super-Fast, Button Removal No Problem

Jon Rubinstein dropped the news only minutes ago that the new Palm devices – the slightly-upgraded Pre Plus and Pixi Plus – would be arriving exclusively on Verizon later this month.

Software

Palm Will Support Flash 10 On Pre

Like Android, which is still waiting for Flash 10 to arrive, Palm’s showing off Flash 10 right now. It’s a bit chunky and fuzzy demoed with a Yahoo! movie trailer, but they say the plugin download is coming “soon”.

Mobile

Video Recording, Editing Finally Coming To All webOS Phones

It’s coming to both the Pre and Pixi in February, over software update. No new hardware is required. It also has an upload-to-YouTube feature.

January 5, 2010
Software

webOS Getting Doom, Quake, OpenGL, Native SDK

With some elbow grease, we’ve been able to play Doom on our Palm Pre devices for a while, but now we can do so without any messy terminal commands. Oh, and there’s a playable version of Quake, too.

December 31, 2009
Software

Palm webOS Nearing 1000 Apps

In mid-December during an investor conference call, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein confirmed there were 800 apps available on the Pre and Pixi. Now, they’re just a few shy of 1000 with 946 available for download. [MyPre]

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