Archive for June, 2009

Palm & Apple Verbally Spar Over iTunes Support

by PalmWebOS.org on June 17th, 2009

Yesterday Apple issued a warning to iTunes customers that seemed to directly address Palm Pre owners who were syncing their new phones with iTunes: Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store. Apple [...]

Palm Pre NES Emulator: Not Easy But Awesome

by PalmWebOS.org on June 15th, 2009

If you don’t love the nostalgia and fierce two-button gameplay of old school NES, chances are you’re either clinically insane or a communist. Those who are neither will be happy to know that some motivated folks at the Pre Dev Wiki have found a way to hack an NES emulator onto their Palm Pre. Awesome? [...]

Doom On The Palm Pre (VIDEO)!!!

by PalmWebOS.org on June 12th, 2009

You were probably wondering what type of goodies would result – if any – from the WebOS root image being leaked yesterday. Well one of the first exciting hackeries was done by a kid named Sargund who used an open source version of Doom, called PrBoom, and warns “it is through directfb so the performance [...]

Palm Pixie/Eos May Never See The Light Of Day

by PalmWebOS.org on June 12th, 2009

Well before the launch of the Palm Pre, we already knew what would supposedly be the 2nd Palm WebOS Phone. It was a device that looked somewhat like the Palm Treo Pro, codenamed Pixie and supposedly market-bound as the Palm Eos. It seems the Palm Eos may never actually reach the market – the company [...]

Is Your Palm Pre Scratched?

by PalmWebOS.org on June 11th, 2009

Some people throw a screen protector and body armor on their new phones as soon as they buy them. Others love the bliss of pure, unprotected phone… you get the point. But sometimes whether or not to throw protection on your new gadget depends on how vulnerable it is to scratching. According to Geek.com, the [...]

Palm Pre – The Broken Volume Button Saga

by PalmWebOS.org on June 11th, 2009

I didn’t “wake up early” and wait in line for my Palm Pre. Why not? Knowing me I would sleep through the alarm or smack it into silence, so instead I pulled an all-nighter. At about 6:45AM I headed to the Sprint retail store in the Inner Harbor and waited with about 7 other people [...]

ZepFloyd: Palm iPod With WebOS On The Way?

by PalmWebOS.org on June 11th, 2009

What do you think of when you hear ZepFloyd? Chances are two musical groups – Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. Now if I told you that hidden deep inside the WebOS code was reference to a Palm device codenamed ZepFloyd what would you think? Probably that Palm was working on an iPod Touch like device [...]

Canadian Palm Pre Launching On Bell THIS MONTH?

by PalmWebOS.org on June 11th, 2009

It is officially official that Bell will be the exclusive Canadian carrier for the Palm Pre – that we already know. But the only release date we had up until this point was “2nd Half of 2009″. It appears that date may have moved up to the 1st Half of 2009 as MobileSyrup is reporting [...]

Palm Gets New CEO – Jon Rubinstein

by PalmWebOS.org on June 11th, 2009

Ed Colligan had been the Palm CEO for 16 years but today annuonced his departure. He will take on a position with Elevation Partners, the company with a majority financial stake in Palm, but his new position may be more of a nudge out the door. Jon Rubinstein will be the new CEO effective June [...]

Palm Pre Konami Code = Dev Mode

by PalmWebOS.org on June 10th, 2009

Go ahead… try it. Grab your Palm Pre, open the keyboard and just start typing “upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart”. Before you know it, you’ll be restarting your phone in dev mode! This mode will most likely allow you to connect to the Mojo SDK and test your WebOS applications right on your own device.  Since most people don’t [...]