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  • Monday Brief: The Nokia Lumia 928, a Galaxy S4 vs HTC One camera shootout, BlackBerry Live, and…

    13 May 2013, 10:21 am by: Ashley Esqueda

    Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube Iterate 46: Beck, Ohms, Urbanick, and Press   Megapixels and Ultrapixels: The Galaxy S4 versus HTC One camera shootout Welcome to the all-new Android Central app! Sony Xperia…
  • The Great webOS Nation Giveaway: Who won a Verizon Pre3?

    12 May 2013, 7:53 pm by: Derek Kessler

    Maybe it took us a while to get this one judged. But we got it done! There were a lot of really really great entries for our 60 seconds for a Verizon HP Pre3 contest, which made judging who deserved to win one of these rare brand-new webOS smartphones more…
  • Phoenix ACL for TouchPad passes $35,000 Kickstarter goal with 10 days to spare

    12 May 2013, 4:23 pm by: Derek Kessler

    If you've been waiting to get Android apps running on your webOS-powered HP TouchPad (without having to actually install Android, that is), then you might just be one step closer to your desired future. Two weeks ago, webOS upstarts Phoenix International…
  • Jon Rubinstein returns: Former Palm CEO joins Qualcomm's board

    6 May 2013, 9:35 pm by: Derek Kessler

    When Jon Rubinstein came out of retirement from Apple to join Palm way back in 2007, little did he know the odyssey upon which he and Palm were about to embark. From launching the Palm Pre less than two years later, becoming Palm CEO, guiding Palm into HP's…
  • Disable Gesture Area LED when an app is active

    6 May 2013, 1:27 pm by: Adam Marks

    When the physical button on the original Palm Pre was replaced with a virtual capacitive button on the Pre Plus, there was more than just a change to the physical appearance of webOS phones. While both the physical button of the Pre and the capacitive button…
  • Monday Brief: The mysterious AT&T XFON, a cheeky Windows Phone commercial, and more!

    6 May 2013, 9:21 am by: Ashley Esqueda

    Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube Iterate 45: Briana Wu and Amanda Warner of Revolution 60   AT&T Optimus G Pro hands-on Mystery Motorola device leaked with AT&T apps on board, labeled XFON AT&T Galaxy S4…
  • Clear phone call history

    3 May 2013, 8:30 pm by: Adam Marks

    The Phone app in webOS maintains your complete history of every phone call that was ever placed, received or missed since you activated the device. If you are on a webOS 2.1 or higher, this data is also backed up to your Palm Profile so the call log will…
  • App Giveaway: Othello StockWatch

    30 April 2013, 9:00 pm by: Derek Kessler

    If you're an investor in this day and age, keeping up on your stock portfolio can seem like a daunting task. There's not just the day-to-day progress of your positions, but there are technical indicators and charts and news out the wazoo that you've got to…
  • Last call! Verizon Pre3 60-second video entries close tomorrow

    29 April 2013, 6:01 pm by: Derek Kessler

    Consider this your final reminder. If you want to win one of five brand-new Verizon HP Pre3 smartphones and are totally cool with putting together a video that's no longer than sixty seconds, then you should totally head to the contest post linked below for…
  • Monday Brief: WWDC sells out, BlackBerry Q10 review and the Samsung Galaxy S4 has arrived

    29 April 2013, 3:01 pm by: Ashley Esqueda

    Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube   The Android Central Samsung Galaxy S4 review Galaxy S4 versus HTC One in New York's Central Park Vine coming to Android 'soon' say creators     BlackBerry Q10 Review…
  • Phoenix teams up with OpenMobile to Kickstart the ACL for TouchPad

    28 April 2013, 1:30 pm by: Derek Kessler

    Way back in 2012 we were introduced to OpenMobile, a company working to build what they called an "Application Compatibility Layer" for running Android apps on Open webOS. They've demonstrated it running in the webOS emulator, but what about on a real live…
  • Isis Web doesn't bring new WebKit to the TouchPad, but it's still better

    25 April 2013, 12:46 pm by: Derek Kessler

    Way back in February of 2012 - that's over a year ago - HP released to open source the new Isis browser built on the latest WebKit standards. They called it Isis. This Isis browser in built in to Open webOS, and anybody familiar with webOS on the TouchPad…
  • This is the WindsorNot - the webOS slate smartphone that never was

    24 April 2013, 3:59 pm by: Derek Kessler

    In the early months of 2011, after the HP Pre3, Veer, and TouchPad had been announced at HP's Think Beyond event in February, there were many debates raging inside the halls of the webOS campus in Sunnyvale. Decisions had to be made, projects were going to…
  • The Great webOS Nation Giveaway: Winners of the Pixi + Pre 2 + Veer giveaway!

    24 April 2013, 10:57 am by: Derek Kessler

    The week is up, so it's time to announce the winners of the second of the giveaways that compose the Great webOS Nation Giveaway. This contest was for a total of two AT&T HP Veers, two Verizon Palm Pre 2s, and one Sprint Palm Pixi - and nearly nine hundred of…
  • Find missing text messages due to wrong network time

    24 April 2013, 9:32 am by: Adam Marks

    This week for your friendly neighborhood tipster started off with old email messages being continually syned to my device due to an odd issue involving email retention time frames and has continued with another weird issue of new text messages seemingly…
  • The Great webOS Nation Giveaway: 60 seconds for a Verizon Pre3

    23 April 2013, 8:51 pm by: Derek Kessler

    On the list of rare birds in the webOS universe, it doesn't get much rarer than the Verizon HP Pre3 before you venture into the realm of never-mass-produced prototypes. But it would just so happen that we have five of them that we intend to give away to you,…
  • Fix email retention time issues

    22 April 2013, 3:56 pm by: Adam Marks

    This tip is only for devices running webOS 2.x or higher Instead of a fixed number of email messages to load into the Email app, webOS allows you to define a retention timeframe, so you can bring it all email from just the last day to a full month to…
  • Monday Brief: The HTC One launches in the US, BlackBerry 10.1 for developers, and more!

    22 April 2013, 8:40 am by: Ashley Esqueda

    Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube Debug 13: Mike Lee and Lemur Chemistry   HTC One gains greater availability - here's what you need to know The Samsung Galaxy S4 is coming - Read all the latest updates Moga…
  • Bookmark File Manager folders

    19 April 2013, 2:18 pm by: Adam Marks

    If you want to do any sort of file management on your webOS device, you will need to connect your device to a computer and access the USB drive mode, or you can use use a good File Manager app. There are quite a few great apps available, including Internalz or…
  • Nexus 4 gains Touchstone charging thanks to clever hacking

    19 April 2013, 8:26 am by: Derek Kessler

    I recently added a LG Nexus 4 to my smartphone rotation, and yes, that's an Android device. It's a nicely-designed phone and feels good in the hand, and as an added bonus to an old school Palm aficionado like myself, comes with built-in wireless charging in…
  • A quick research survey from Phoenix

    18 April 2013, 8:02 pm by: Derek Kessler

    The ambitious upstarts at Phoenix International Communications have some pretty crazy plans. Eventually they want to produce their own webOS smartphones, but in the meantime they're content with getting Open webOS running as an app on Android devices. That's…
  • The Great webOS Nation Giveaway: Here are four winners, of AT&T Pre3s; webOS haiku

    18 April 2013, 6:12 pm by: Derek Kessler

    One thousand entries, took Derek a while to read, so many good poems. But when the end comes, there can be just one, no, four, to get a new phone. webOS haikus, funny, sad, joyful, clever, picking was quite hard. So here are the four, who will win a new Pre3,…
  • The Great webOS Nation Giveaway: Comment to win a Pixi, Pre 2, or Veer

    16 April 2013, 6:18 pm by: Derek Kessler

    If an AT&T HP Pre3 doesn't fit the bill for you, fret not, there are more giveaways to come in The Great webOS Nation Giveaway. Like this one. And unlike the last one where we told you to go and write a syllabically-constrained webOS poem (that contest is…
  • Access a Mini-calendar view with Uber-Calendar patch

    15 April 2013, 7:58 pm by: Adam Marks

    The Calendar app in webOS has some great features and Synergy in webOS makes consolidating calendars from multiple sources extremely easy, but anyone who remembers how the calendar worked from the old PalmOS days also knows that there are some major feature…
  • Monday Brief: More Facebook Home, iRadio, the Lumia 720, and more!

    15 April 2013, 9:40 am by: Ashley Esqueda

    Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube Iterate 44: Mark Kawano and evangelizing experience   HTC First with Facebook Home now available on AT&T Facebook Home and the HTC First - what you need to know Verizon moves…

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