88 posts tagged “webos”

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...

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.

Alan Grassia, host of Smartphonefanatics.com, has an interesting blog entry about the Palm Foleo and why it could make sende to see a new version running webOS...

I've been thinking a lot about Palm's discontinued Foleo mobile companion lately. It was two years ago, this past September, that Palm chose to discontinue the Foleo so that the company could focus their energy on the development of the Palm Pre and their new mobile operating system, Palm webOS. Looking forward, one has to wonder whether or not Palm will go back and redesign the Foleo for use with Palm webOS.

There are some solutions in order to migrate data from PalmOS to webOS. For those, who are working with Microsoft Outlook on the Desktop PC already (rather than the Palm Desktop) might be interested in solutions to bring their Outlook data, such as calendar and contacts right into their Google Account.

iCal4OL is on of the solutions to provide a two-way synchronization from and to the Google Calendar by supporting a broad range of systems and import/export functions, the other one is OGGSync, which is specialized to MS Outlook.

For those of you who are interested in a free solution for private use and would like to subscribe their Google calendars within Outlook may have a look to ICS4OL.

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 :)