97 posts tagged “palm pre”
Alan over at Smartphonefacatics.com discovered a shortcut on how to find all preferences under webOS in one place. Just type "pref" for "preferences" within the universal search and your are done.
Of course, this only counts for the English version, but it is quite similar for the German version typing "eins" for "Einstellungen".
Good find, Alan! This makes my life even easier with webOS...
There are many ways to personalize a webOS smartphone. The most individual one is to install apps, hacks and apply patches to webOS by homebrewing the device. Thus, one can receive more power and usability, but also live with the fact that something could go wrong and brick the device.
There are currently four homebrew installers - all with limited functionality and some pros and cons. Again, Precentral created a gorgeous overview chart of all tools and point out which make sense for which procedures...
In order to quickly access the developer mode under webOS, one can make use of the DevMode Launcher.
As usual, precentral is a good source for some webOS juice and so are they reporting that webOS folks will be able to playback flash animations very soon and one of the first to do so on a mobile device in general.
A prerelease version of Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. A beta is expected to be available for Palm webOS later this year.
Read on here.
The Palm Pre has hit Europe one week ago and most of us are still trying to get their data from PalmOS to webOS as smooth as possible. The Calendar isn't the real challange, this works flawlessly, the real pain is to get all addresses into the Google Mail account with all of their informartion, such as all specific fields as well as notes.
Companionlink is one of the overall Desktop synchronisation suite, that links the Palm Desktop directly with the Google Account. See below how easy it is...
I don't know why, but there is an application via the homebrew installer for the Palm Pre which allow users to end a call by closing the slider of the keyboard.
For me, this requires the slider to be open during a call, of course.
Why should I slide out the keyboard in order to make or receive a call? I do understand that one simply leaves the keyboard open while heaving picked a contact from within the address book and end the call by closing it, but why should one open the keyboard when receiving a call?
I guess, this is typical American and refers back to the good old days. Americans always need to flip or slide out something like in the 1970s, whether this is an areal or a keyboard cover to unhide the keys of an oldschoolish cordless phone... But, hey, this is another century...there is no more need for that...
I guess, here in Europe, we are in need of some more sophisticated applications with greater use.
Altough, any app is appreciated and indicates an active developper community.
The Pre Launch in UK is scheduled two days after the German Pre Launch.
Next is a video about the UK Pre Launch Events and it seems, the Brits are taking more efforts on the parties rather than the Germans :)
Am heutigen Abend um 20:14 Uhr hat O2 seinen Werbespot zum Palm Pre ausgestrahlt. Nur war das Palm Pre leider nur sehr kurz und schnell auf dem Bildschirm zu sehen und konnte von Benutzer gar nicht realisiert werden. In Essenz war es also ein O2-Werbespot zu O2's mobilem Internet.
In der Palm Community war das Echo zum Werbespot eher verhaltend, um nicht zu sagen vernichtend. Keiner konnte damit so richtig etwas anfangen. Die Szenenwechsel waren sehr schnell, das Gerät selbst wurde nicht konkret herausgestellt, sondern das Produkt von O2 - nämlich das mobile Internet. Das macht sicherlich Sinn, ist O2 ja ein Netzbetreiber und kein Hersteller von Smartphones. Allerdings wurde die Community entsprechend angeheizt, dass es sich um einen Werbespot zum Pre handeln würde.
Hier stellt man fest, dass die T-Mobile-Werbespots das iPhone wesentlich besser herausstellen und dem Kunden bewusst machen, dass nur das iPhone selbst das mobile Internet unterwegs darstellt, nicht T-Mobile.
As we have outlined here, Classic for the Palm Pre will allow webOS users to have their favorite PalmOS applications right on the Palm Pre or Pixi for a transition period until the major applications are available under webOS as well.
The good thing: All hotsync functionality will work and bring your conduits back to live under webOS. Usually, the hotsync will work via WLAN, since USB is not supported. More specifically, it will work via any TCP/IP connection between webOS and your desktop PC for hotsync. Thus, it will not only work over WLAN, but also via GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, EVDO as well as over Bluetooth.
The following demonstration show hotsyncing over BT.
Those, who you who are typing a lot under webOS are wondering, whether or not one can have Copy & Paste on the Palm Pre/Pixi. Apart from doing it with a long finger press opening a menu and selecting Copy/Paste, it is faster and easier by using the keyboard, such as STRG-C/V on a desktop PC. STRG is equivalent to a finger press on the gesture area and thus C/V works perfectly on the keyboard.
See the following demonstration video for the details:
