Monthly Archives: July 2010

By: , 7/6/2010 3:11 pm | 30 comments

Remember our coverage of Laptop Magazine’s March Smartphone Madness? Remember how the Palm Pre Plus won the whole thing?? Well, Laptop Magazine is at it again, and it seems they want to test the mettle of the webOS community once …

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By: , 7/6/2010 2:33 pm | 25 comments

Well, they may have royally botched the launch of the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, but Verizon Wireless sure has been working hard to move units (read: clear their shelves). Here’s another example: accessory bundles at rock-bottom prices for …

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By: , 7/5/2010 3:18 pm | 19 comments

Hey devs! Pumped about HP’s acquisition of Palm? We are too. But if you plan on releasing another tip calculator, says our good friend Pamela Hazelton, please think twice.  In fact, she’s put together a nice list of 10 Overdone …

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By: , 7/5/2010 2:00 pm | 10 comments

The Palm App Catalog is filled with lots of puzzle games and time-wasters. One that has been around for quite a while and with deep homebrew roots is Word Whirl by SacherSoft.  Usually $1.99, it’s a steal at $0.99 during …

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By: , 7/5/2010 11:31 am | 8 comments

webOS 1.4.5 patch notes have made another mysterious appearance on Palm’s Web site.  Palm’s website shows ‘Sprint Pre’ on ‘SFR’ along with the version notes. As we saw before with the earlier leaked version notes there aren’t a lot of …

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By: , 7/5/2010 11:24 am | 1 comment
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As I’m writing this I find myself famished, the laundry’s not getting done, and my Palm Pre is screaming “Battery Low” as it always does when I’ve spent a good couple hours on a new favorite app. All of this …

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By: , 7/5/2010 11:18 am | 13 comments

WebOS Internals tweeted this morning that they were having issues with the Preware feeds. Approximately one hour later they tweeted “webos-internals.org/preware.org offline, disk IO error. Switching Preware feeds to backup mirror (ipkg3.preware.org / 69.163.133.43)” as the issue for the Preware …

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By: , 7/4/2010 4:10 pm | 7 comments

Ever since I purchased my first cell phone way back in 1999, you could say I’ve been hooked on mobile technology. Mostly, it’s been a cell phone addiction: I upgrade to a new phone anytime I’m eligible. At last count, …

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By: , 7/2/2010 7:21 pm | 16 comments

Okay, so you’ve gotten excited hearing us talk about a webOS Mundu IM app, and how it’s coming to webOS “soon.” And why not? Let’s face it: as awesome as webOS is, we’re still lacking a bit in the instant …

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By: , 7/2/2010 6:44 pm | 3 comments

As expected, HP is laying off some personnel from Palm in the wake of the merger completion.  According to Engadget jobs are already being eliminated.  Given what we’ve heard from Palm staff on Twitter most of these people probably already …

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By: , 7/2/2010 5:22 pm | 2 comments

Please, don’t ask me why I did this. I’ve always found it nifty that Govnah by webOS Internals can report cpu temperatures. Even though I knows it’s damaging my phone, I sometimes keep my Pre in my pocket just to …

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By: , 7/2/2010 2:45 pm | 2 comments

The folks over at Glu Mobile are giving us extra reason to celebrate The Fourth by slashing prices of many of their games in the webOS App Catalog to $0.99! … But wait, there’s more! Their 4th of July Blowout …

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