This is the latest TV ad from Palm . It’s actually pretty good. Unfortunately for Palm, they didn’t launch the Pre with ads like this.
Instead of a little Mos Def and a hot young lady walking down the street showing you what webOS can do, the marketing geniuses at Palm decided to freak you out with this spot.
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Palm today released the the Plug-in Developer Kit (PDK) beta, a new component in the webOS SDK that will make for dramatically better gaming on devices running webOS, is now available.
The PDK allows developers to use C, C++, and the OpenGL ES graphics API for 3D graphics in the creation of applications (really cool games) in webOS. The PDK will also make it “easy” to port games on other platforms (read iPhone games) over to webOS.
You can download the Palm PDK from the Palm Developer Center.
[via Mashable]
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All the rumors about the Palm Pre coming to Verizon have been confirmed. Earlier today in a conference call with analysts Verizon stated that the Palm Pre would be coming to their network “early next year“. This is not good news at all for Sprint.
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Even though the Palm Pre has been available for well over a month, believe it or not, you were not able to order the device online. That was the case, at least, until today, as the Palm Pre is now available through Sprint’s website.
The Pre will cost you $199.99 on a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. You still are going to have to shell out 300 bucks up front to get yourself one. This is kind of unfortunate seeing how the Pre’s biggest competitors, the iPhone and the BlackBerry, can be yours for $100 or more less out the door. At least those who still really want a Pre will probably be able to get one.
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Can’t say that we didn’t really see this coming, but, Apple has released iTunes 8.2.1 that apparently nixes the Palm Pre’s ability to sync your library. Fortunately, drag and drop still works or you could always use a third party utility like doubleTwist.
I wonder if Palm and Apple will get into a cat and mouse game of updates that allows then prevents Pre/iTunes syncing?
[Via PreThinking]
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Ever since CES, the smartphone world has been dominated with news of Palm’s new webOS and the device on which it runs, the Palm Pre. There hasn’t been a lot of good news coming out of Palm for the passed couple of years, however, when it comes to the Pre reviewers are raving about it, new blogs covering the Pre are emerging, and some are even calling the Pre an iPhone killer.
Just how big will the Palm Pre and webOS be?
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Remember Palm? They used to be the top dog in the mobile PDA business just a few years ago but it seems like lately the company is struggling just to stay afloat.
Next month at CES in Las Vegas, Palm will debut it’s new OS along with the device that will run it.
Palm is expecting Nova to capture 2% of the market now dominated by the BlackBerry followed by the iPhone. Will this be enough to save the company?
What do you think?
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Remember back in the day where the gadget to have for everyone that was anyone was a Palm Pilot? It’s hard to believe that devices from Palm once held the rock star status that is today reserved only for the BlackBerry and the iPhone.
Palm was so big that Palm Pilot almost became a generic term kind of like Xerox. It really didn’t matter what type of PDA you had, most people referred to it as a Palm Pilot.
It is kind of sad seeing where Palm has fallen to. 10 years ago they were on top of the world. Today their stock has been downgraded to sell and is sitting at $5.76. Research in Motion, on the other hand, moved into the top 5 of wireless handset manufacturers and opened up today at $137.50.
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Even a company that is dwindling away into nothingness like Palm that is known to build some of the buggiest PDA’s known to man can get a good cheap shot in when you can’t keep your service up for more than a few months at a time.
Sure, you’ve got to reboot your Windows Mobile running Treo once or twice a day, however, when it’s up, you can pretty much send and receive email without worry.
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