Archive for September, 2009

Palm Pre less hazardous to use than most popular smartphones

by Shawn Brown on September 28th, 2009

Recently an Environmental Working Group has taken a list of mobile phones and the amount of radiation given off by these smartphones and compared them to see just which are doing more damage than the others. The list is composed of the more popular smartphone handsets in the US right now. The Palm Pre is [...]

Palm Pre homebrew video recording looks great

by Shawn Brown on September 28th, 2009

How bummed were we all when we found out that the Palm Pre would come lacking any video recording support at all? These days it seems like an industry standard feature, heck even the iPhone which has lacked so many basic features since day one now has it. Fear not there are many people out [...]

The Missing Sync for Windows full release now available

by Shawn Brown on September 28th, 2009

For those of you looking for a great way to sync your Palm Pre The Missing Sync for Windows is now out their trial run and has been released as a full blown application. The Missing Sync allows you to sync with many programs such as iTunes and Windows Media Player. With this software you [...]

WebOS 1.2 to launch by October 2nd?

by Shawn Brown on September 28th, 2009

How many times will we get our hopes up of seeing a webOS 1.2 update based on rumors only to see all hope crushed soon after? Well if you’re sick of getting let down stop reading right now because another rumored release date has surfaced. As of now word on the street is that webOS [...]

New webOS plugin gives support for other IM clients

by Shawn Brown on September 28th, 2009

It’s great that Palm has the integrated AIM support but many of us do not use AIM. Alternately we may use Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger and are missing any support at all. The wait is getting shorter as there is now a plugin modfification for Windows Live Messenger in the works. PalmInfoCenter reports [...]

Palm Pre with Sprint saves you hundreds over 2 years

by Shawn Brown on September 28th, 2009

Spring has slowly but surely made efforts to clean up their billing and end cost to the customer problems. This is shown in a recent article published by PC World showing the true cost of smartphones on the largest carriers in the US. The comparison is made on the offered unlimited plans because other plans [...]

Developer Relations Team Gets Two Additions

by PalmWebOS.org on September 28th, 2009

It looks like Palm is ready to take the WebOS App Catalog to the next level but to do that, it needs help from developers. So what else to announce than 2 new hires to the Developer Relations team? Now that our exciting Web-based platform, Palm webOS, is ready for developers, the time was right [...]

New Apps Available On WebOS Catalog!

by PalmWebOS.org on September 28th, 2009

SNAKE BITE! That’s right… snake is now officially available on your Palm Pre along with a bunch of other good-good-goodies. The more the merrier… at least that is how I see it! A bunch of new applications were found on the App Catalog this weekend and we wanted to let you know so you can [...]

Palm Pre $100 At Amazon, $80 At Walmart!

by PalmWebOS.org on September 27th, 2009

Man the Palm Pre looks smoking hot but its such an awesome phone that it HAS to be way expensive… right? Not so if you’re down with grabbing your device from Amazon where it will only cost you $99: And if you’re willing to dig down deep and visit Wal-Mart for your next dream device, [...]

Unlocked GSM Pre may be a little hard for US to adjust to

by Shawn Brown on September 25th, 2009

I think a little piece of us all got really excited to hear that an unlocked SIM-free version of the Palm Pre will be offered up. For us in the US that means a few more options as far as service providers go if you simply must have the Pre. Unfortunately the foreign GSM Pre [...]