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Palm Pixi Available Nov 15 on Sprint

Betabuzz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:25:05 +0000

Palm Pixi with WebOS will be on Sprint coming this November 15. This is the first phone to follow the Palm Pre which was a huge success for the mobile phone company. It is most likely exclusive on Sprint for 60 to 90 days. AT&T should see the phone soon.

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webOS App Catalog expected to grow today

Betabuzz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:19:22 +0000

Palm is expected to grow its App Catalog library today. The will add paid apps to the catalog.

List of Current Apps (all 75 app are free)
4:20 Wallpaper
AccuRadio
AccuWeather
AP News
Blackout
Bubbles!
Checkers
Chess for webOS
Citysearch
Classic
CoinFlip
Connect 4 Demo
DeadMan
Ditto
Dot Game
DumbWaiter
Echo
ESPN Zoom
Evernote for palm pre
Express Horoscopes
Fandango
Fliq Bookmarks
Flixster
Forbes
gDialPro
GoodFood Restuarants near you
Hebrew Calendar Trail
Infopedia
Intuit GoPayment
Kosher2Go
Lemonade
Lights Out
LikeMe Mobile
LinkedIn
Local concerts
Match.com
mCraig Beta
Mileage Monitor
NFL SuperFan
P2Google Voice
P2Snippets
Pandora Radio
PhotoDialer
PhotoDialer
PicHunt – Pets
PicHunt – Space
PicHunt – Vintage Cars
Pocker Mirro
PocketMirror
Reversi
SendMy Location for webOS
Shabbat Shalom
ShortCovers
Simple Bible
Sodoku
Spades
Spaz
Speed Brain
Splash ID Beta – Secure Password
Survivor Smoa
Tetris Mani Demo
The Canadian Press Mobile
The Missing Sync
Tip Em – Tip Calculator
Tmaps – DC
Today Show
Tweed
UberPass
Video Poker
Where
wikiHow
Word Ace
Yahtzee Demo
Yelp
Zilch Lite

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gDial Pro comes to Palm Pre

Betabuzz — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:35:43 +0000

gDial Pro come to the webos platform. This is an unofficial dialer for google voice. The app has the same features as the regular dialer on the pre.

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Palm Pre expanding.. coming to bell canada

Betabuzz — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:27:17 +0000

Palm Pre is due out on Canada’s Bell networks this August 27th. This is great news for the decide as its user base will increase. Palm Pre continues to lack Apps as the iPhone store continues to grow.

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Take that Apple

Betabuzz — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:19:18 +0000

Apple last week release iTunes 8.2.1 which disabled Palm Pre from transferring music from iTunes. Palm has rebuttled that and added back the feature in their latest update in 1.1.0.

Version information

* Version: webOS 1.1.0
* Release date: 23 July 2009
* Configuration: Sprint 1.7

New applications
NFL Mobile Live from Sprint

* Watch or listen to live NFL games right on your phone.

Feature changes to existing applications
Calendar

* For Calendar accounts you create on your phone, the default reminder intervals are 15 minutes for timed events and one day for all-day events. A few notes:
o This change applies only if software version 1.1 was on your phone when you bought it, or if you did a partial or full erase on your phone and signed in to your Palm profile again after updating to version 1.1. If you simply update your phone to software version 1.1, the default reminder intervals in Calendar do not change.
o This change applies only to Calendar events you create on your phone, not to events that are synchronized to your phone from an online account.

Camera

* The Photos application opens more quickly when launched from the camera.

Clock

* Enhanced support for time zones in Clock.
* When you set an alarm in Clock, an alarm icon appears in the notification area at the bottom of the screen. Tap the icon to display alarm details. Alarm details include the following:
o If the alarm is set for the current day, the alarm time appears.
o If the alarm is set for tomorrow, the alarm time and “Tomorrow” appear.
o If the alarm is set for any day other than today or tomorrow, the day of the alarm appears.

Contacts

* Friends added and deleted in Facebook on the web are now correctly added and deleted in the Facebook account in Contacts on the phone.
* As soon as you create or makes changes to a Google contact on the phone, the phone begins a sync to reflect those changes in Google on the web.

* When you set up an Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) email account, you can enter the mail server name as an IP address.
* Support for self-signed certificates with multiple common names has been added.
* When you reply to an email in HTML format using an EAS account, the formatting of the sender’s original message is now retained in the reply.
* Palm’s EAS implementation now supports several Exchange ActiveSync Policies, including the following:
o PIN/Password Required. IT administrators can ensure a password is assigned to the phone. Administrators can also specify the minimum length of the password.
o Inactivity timeout. IT administrators can ensure that an inactive phone goes into a locked state after a certain time period. You cannot set a higher timeout interval for your phone, but you can set a shorter interval.
o Remote Wipe. IT Administrators can remotely erase all data on a phone from their Exchange console. IT administrators can also have the device wipe itself if an incorrect password is entered more than a specified number of times.

Messaging

* You can enter emoticons in new text, multimedia, and instant messages. Emoticons also display in incoming messages.
* If you set the phone to use a 24-hour time format, the message times shown in a conversation appear in 24-hour time.
* If you go into an IM account’s preferences, all the options are available even if you are signed in to the account. You can tap Remove Account to delete the account, enter a new password to update the password, or tap Sign In to sign in with your updated password. Previously, you needed to sign out of the account before you could use these preferences.
* When you delete an IM account, a message now appears asking you to confirm that you want to delete the account.

Phone

* When multiple missed call notifications are displayed on the dashboard, the time of the most recent missed call is shown.
* When you slide the ringer switch off, a bell icon with a slash is displayed. Previously, the icon was a speaker with a slash.
* In Phone Preferences, the Show Contact Matches preference is now turned on by default. When typing on the keyboard in the phone app, the phone automatically displays both the numbers being entered and any contact matches for the characters entered.

System

* Improved functionality of person reminders. A person reminder is a notification that you create in a contact entry. The notification appears when you have a call or exchange an email, text, multimedia, or IM message with a contact.
* Resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (8.2.1).
* When you enter a search term in Card view or the Launcher to perform a universal search, if you select the Wikipedia web search option, results are shown in the Wikipedia Mobile site instead of the Desktop site.

Web

* You can now use symbols from the symbols table (Sym Sym key icon + key) when you enter text into a web page dialog box.
* If you have a page open at a certain zoom level, leave the page, and use the onscreen Back Web Back button button or the back gesture to return to the page, the zoom level is restored right away.
* A new gesture is now available that works the same as the onscreen Forward Web Forward button button. To move forward through open web pages, make a short swipe left to right in the gesture area.
* When using the Wikipedia drop-down search feature in the address bar, results are shown in the Wikipedia Mobile site instead of the Desktop site.
* When you tap a link, the link appears highlighted to indicate it has been activated, even if it takes a moment for the linked page to open.

YouTube

* After you enter search text, you can tap the Search Search icon icon to perform a search. You still have the option of pressing Enter Enter key to perform the search.

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Palm Pre on Verizon

Betabuzz — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:06:08 +0000

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Add tethering to your Palm Pre

Betabuzz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:58:44 +0000

Is You Geeked Up has posted on how to tether with your Palm Pre. Of course some hacking of the palm pre is involved, and isn’t fully legal way of doing it. (Read)

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