Palm/HP is targeting the Pre 3 as a “business”-class phone, even though it’s got the same body shape as the previous Pres. It has their largest keyboard, a larger 3.6-inch 480×800 display and a 5MP camera.
Incredibly popular mobile game Angry Birds is now available on WebOS – specifically on Palm Pre and Pre Plus devices running webOS 1.4.5. While this’ll certainly make Palm users happy, I’m surprised that the game hasn’t hit Android devices yet.
We knew that plenty of Palm employees left once HP acquired the company, but now we know the latest one to jump ship: Peter Skillman, Palm’s Vice President of Design. Also known as the man who designed the Pre.
After two phones (and two spin-offs) running webOS, you’d think Palm and its new owner HP would be keen to get some new devices to market. All we’ve got to go on for now is a Palm rep’s comments, confirming that they “are working on future devices” and a “new version of the OS”. Apparently, we’re “going to find the next year very exciting”.
Europeans won’t have to wait as long for the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus as they did the original models, according to the documents passed through the Global Certification Forum allowing them entry through Heathrow, Charles De Gaulle and Schiphol.
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Why, what a nice ad this is for Palm’s webOS! Let’s see, you’ve got the clearly communicated feature set, the driving soundtrack and no creepy lady heads talking at you. If only it’d been made by Palm.
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The stock Palm Pre has an adequate but ho-hum 500MHz processor inside with 256MB of RAM. And even the Palm Pre Plus simply doubles the RAM. So how would the Pre run with a much faster processor? Now we know.
Unreal Engine 3? The graphics engine that powers many, many games (Gears of War, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum) on consoles today? Ported on to Palm’s webOS? Neat, but not as neat as you’d think.
