March 17th 2010
It’s no secret that Palm is hurting, and hurting bad. But we knew that Palm at least had something on the horizon: the launch of two devices on AT&T, with all signs pointing to them being updated versions of the Pre and the the Pixi landing sometime in April or May. Well, according to John [...]
March 13th 2010
Tags: Apple, Ergonomic Mouse, Fingers, Hump, Leverage, Magic Mouse, Nbsp, Palm, Sleek Lines
March 11th 2010
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. More »
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Tags: Asylum, Consoles, Gears, Gears Of War, Graphics Engine, Many Games, Mass Effect, Palm, Unreal Engine 3
March 9th 2010
Palm’s complement to their SDK, the webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK), is available in beta form now. Download it here. More »
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Tags: Beta Download, Complement, Development Kit, Palm, Pdk, Public Beta, Sdk
March 8th 2010
Tags: Armor, Battle Suit, Head Spin, Hot Chick, Iron Man, New Man, Palm, Suitcase
March 3rd 2010
Ooh la la! You can now update to version 1.1.0 of the Facebook app for webOS. It looks great and it brings an enhanced inbox, photo album access, more profile viewing options, events, and search. Finally! More »
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Tags: Facebook, Gorgeous, Inbox, Ooh La La, Options, Palm, Photo Album, Photo Albums, Webos
March 3rd 2010
Smartphones are so much more than phones, they are now full-blown computers. They make phone calls and do texting, but that’s just a small piece of the feature set on today’s phones. While the smartphone is rapidly changing the mobile habits of society, when things go wrong it can be a frustrating experience. It is [...]
February 27th 2010
Tags: Beta, Flash Software, Flash Stuff, Live Video, Palm, Recording Software, Software Update, Video Flash, Video Recording, Video Software, Video Update, Webos
February 26th 2010
Jon Rubinstein, Palm’s CEO and Apple’s former hardware chief, wrote a letter to the company employees warning them to brace for impact as investors punish the stock after seeing an updated, dissapointing earnings guidance.
Palm has significantly lowered its earnings ahead of the third quarter financial report due March 18. The company had originally projected quarterly [...]
February 26th 2010
Sprint’s 1.4 webOS update for the Palm Pre and Pixi has turned up a day late and a dollar richer, with both handsets now capable of recording video. The Pre also has Flash 10 capability, via an Adobe plug-in. More »
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Tags: Adobe, Capability, Dollar, Flash 4, Nbsp, Palm, Pixi, Sprint, Video Flash, [...]
February 25th 2010
Tags: Last Stand, Memory, Modern History, Nokia, Palm, Unveiling
February 25th 2010
If this leak is true (and it’s boring enough to be true), then it means webOS 1.4 should be hitting soon (like we thought).
Nothing on here is stuff we didn’t already know, including video capture,…
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Tags: Capture Flash, Flash Stuff, Palm, Video Capture, Video Flash
February 22nd 2010
It failed to materialize on the 15th, but now PreCentral’s claiming the 25th will see the webOS 1.4 update come good. This is a firmware update worth writing in your diary about, bringing video…
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Tags: Diary, Firmware Update, Palm, Video Recording, Webos
February 20th 2010
Earlier in the week, I started watching the progress of a Sense UI build for the Nexus One. Since the ROM is still in an alpha state, I’m holding off from installing it on my handset. For now, I’m happy just to have an important bit from it — the HTC Sense keyboard, which received [...]
February 15th 2010
Microsoft lifted the veil covering Windows Phone 7 this morning, and the interface is nothing short of spectacular. We won’t see any of these phones until end of this year, but this video shows off the interface in great detail. It is obvious that Windows Phone 7 brings our social networking, messaging and online lives [...]
February 11th 2010
In today’s Remainders: patience. Or at least, it’s what’s required by today’s items, including Lumix camera pricing, Google’s acquisition of Aardvark; LG’s forthcoming e-reader, and the great Palm…
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Tags: Aardvark, Acquisition, E Reader, Google, Palm, Patience
February 10th 2010
According to an FCC filing confidentiality request, it seems likely that the Pre could arrive on AT&T this May. Neat, but why would anyone choose AT&T over Sprint or Verizon? (That’s an earnest…
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Tags: Amp, Confidentiality, Fcc, Palm, Sprint, Verizon
February 9th 2010
There’s no lack of smartphone market share numbers and usage statistics available for analysis. It feels like I’m reading a new set of quarterly numbers every few weeks, which sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s true. The latest data comes courtesy of comScore’s MobiLens product and the numbers show a continuing trend of new platforms eating away [...]
February 8th 2010
The smartphone of today hits the battery pretty hard, given all the sophisticated hardware at play. The Nexus One is such a smartphone, with some folks planning on getting a second battery to get through a busy day. For those who don’t like carrying a second battery, the folks at Seidio are offering a double [...]
February 5th 2010
This week has been an unusual one in Mobile Tech Manor, my home office, due to a quick trip to San Francisco. These trips take up a fair bit of time for the planning, and doing any prep work that must be done for the meetings that are the purpose of the trip. I am [...]