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HP adding a $50 gift card to Pres and Pixis

29 July 2010, 7:25 pm by: Shaun
HP has upped the incentive to buy a Palm Pre Plus or Pixi Plus and is now including a $50 gift card which is valid in the HP Home and Home Office Store. All of these incentives are great and so is the rock bottom price of both phones, but the real...

Porting an iPhone game to webOS in 3 days

27 July 2010, 7:25 pm by: Shaun
Phil Hassey has chronicled the porting process of Galcon to webOS which only took 3 days. He details every aspect of the journey and it is well worth a few minutes read- "I’ve just completed and submitted my port of Galcon to the Palm. The entir...

webOS developer podcasts now available via iTunes: irony

23 July 2010, 7:40 pm by: Shaun
Is it just me who sees the irony of the webOS developer podcasts now being available on iTunes? "You can now subscribe to our developer podcasts via iTunes for download to your phone or other device. The URL to subscribe to the podcast is here."

Did the Treo change the World?

22 July 2010, 7:30 pm by: Shaun
Michael Gartenburg has concluded that the Treo should be included in his Five gadgets that changed the World article, and I tend to agree. A worthy read. From SlashGear- “Treo – I first used a preproduction Treo at the end of the 2001 and wrot...

webOS stylus driven tablet on the way? Palm was already working on it.

20 July 2010, 1:20 pm by: Shaun
Gizmodo is running with an article about a future webOS tablet which will be stylus driven. It may be called PalmPad and it may be not, but I suspect the Palm name will be included because I am pretty certain that Palm was working on this at the star...

HTC Desire vs iPhone 4 vs Palm Pre Plus

18 July 2010, 7:59 pm by: Shaun
I currently have my hands on three phones – an HTC Desire, an iPhone 4, and a Palm Pre Plus. For those of you not moving beyond the front page, I’ll put the summary up first, with a comment that for me that the iPhone gets my pick - just, followe...

The future of Kinoma’s Palm OS and desktop products

18 July 2010, 7:00 pm by: Shaun
Kinoma has announced that it will be ending sales of Kinoma Player 4 EX on 8/1/2010. It's hardly something to get annoyed about any more because we all have to face the fact that Palm OS is now well and truly gone. I understand that some of you still...

ComicBookBin 1.0 now available for webOS

16 July 2010, 7:30 pm by: Shaun
ComicBookBin 1.0 is now available in the webOS app catalogue and will be a must have download for webOS carrying comic book fans. "Filling you in since 2002, ComicBookBin 1.0 is your comic book industry utility app. Read and search over 10,000 art...

Palm and RIM starting to fade?

15 July 2010, 7:30 pm by: Shaun
A recent survey by ChangeWave has caused much hysteria in the online mobile press. Palm demand appears to be lacking (analysis here) and the first signs of a slowdown in BlackBerry ownership may be on the cards (details here). The trend is indeed...

The Pre Plus beats the Droid

11 July 2010, 7:00 pm by: Shaun
Laptop Magazine has run a battle of the champions piece comparing the Droid Incredible and the Palm Pre Plus, and the Pre comes out on top by some margin. Nice to see some good news for Palm starting to appear. "Given the results of the March Smar...

Palm issues webOS 1.4.5 update for France’s SFR

5 July 2010, 7:30 pm by: Shaun
Palm has pushed the webOS 1.4.5 update to select markets and hopefully this means that it will be available to all by the time you read this. From mobile burn- "HP and Palm recently issued a new webOS update, 1.4.5, that offers minor fixes and enh...

HP laying off Palm staff

2 July 2010, 7:25 pm by: Shaun
engadget has received news that HP is starting to lay off some Palm staff. This of course will happen when one company buys another, but this statement from Palm caught my eye- "part of the integration strategy is consolidation of functions and opera...

webOS SDK v1.4.5 now available to developers

1 July 2010, 7:20 pm by: Shaun
webOS SDK v1.4.5 is now out of beta and available for developers to get their teeth into. The main changes follow, but there is a lot more. None of which I could ever hope to understand- # webOS 1.4.5 contains the necessary features to support fu...

Warfare Incorporated revisited

30 June 2010, 7:59 pm by: Shaun
A long time ago, way before the world realised that mobile devices could play games and organise people, a company called spiffcode released a game called Warfare Incorporated. Those of us who owned Palm T3’s at the time were blown away by the dept...

webOS app sale extended

29 June 2010, 7:20 pm by: Shaun
Palm has extended the webOS app sale until 23rd July (an extra 2 weeks). This will offers 50% off all titles, but still give developers full commision. From the Palm Developer Blog- "We have been thrilled by the response to our Summer Half Off sal...

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