For what seems like an eternity Research In Motion’s BlackBerry has owned the enterprise segment of the mobile phone market. Windows Mobile also had a small market share in the enterprise segment however it appears that with Windows Phone 7 Microsoft is pushing more toward the consumer market. So, if you receive a company issued smartphone right now you have about a 98% chance that it will be a BlackBerry. The reason for this is device management. A company has to have total control over what you are doing with your wireless device and also be able to secure the device. RIM does this beautifully with their BlackBerry Enterprise Server. To date there is no other device management solution in the market that can compare to BES.
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iOS and now webOS developer Rovio’s app Angry Birds has hit the Palm App Catalog. This game is highly anticipated by the webOS community as evidenced by the overwhelming “YES” it gave to Rovio’s question this past month, “would you be interested in seeing Angry Birds on the webOS platform”. For those who have version 1.4.5 of webOS on their device, Angry Birds is available right now for $1.99 of bird launching, green-pig smashing fun. This is one more strong sign that webOS has arrived as a mobile gaming platform of relevance and is surely a harbinger of more great games to come. We can’t wait! Go get it now.
UPDATE: Apparently the guys over at Palm are so excited about this game’s launch on webOS that their very own Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith interviewed Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio to talk all about Angry Birds and webOS. Peter and the Rovio Mobile crew were all blown away by the webOS community’s fanaticism, which lead to the “very, very easy” port over to webOS (in just a couple days!). From all of us, Peter and Rovio… thanks for listening to us! We love the game!
Welcome to webOSRadio’s new time! We switched things around because it works with people’s schedule a bit better. Hope you don’t mind!
This week we have another newcomer with us. Jesse Mendoza has been a contributor for a few months now and our new recording schedule allowed him to take part for the first time. Welcome Jesse!
Our question of the week is “What do you want in webOS 2.0 that is not in the current version?”
Other than that it is appalicious with a good helping of homebrew and news thrown in for good measure. As a bonus, you will also hear what a bunch of webOS geeks sound like when they see who wins Miss Universe that night.
Enjoy!
You can play and download the podcast from our usual suspects:
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Are you an individual or enterprise with a great idea for an app, but don’t have the time or expertise to do it? Palm’s got your back. In yet another example of how the company is going the extra mile to foster a thriving development ecosystem, Palm has published a list of webOS developers and consultants who are offering their services. According to the Palm Developer Blog:
“We’ve gotten lots of inquiries about what companies are available to do webOS development. So to help out, we’ve put together a list of third-party developers and consultants who would love to help.”
The list presently consists of ten developers, two consultants and one project management team, but we expect this link-up site to grow exponentially. Good stuff, Palm. Keep it up.
If you are a webOS developer or consultant and would like to enlist your services, contact Palm at pdc@palm.com.
[Source: Palm Developer Blog]
Ok, take this news how you will. Verizon is phasing out the Palm Pre Plus. It’s all there is Black and White (and red and green, too). Engadget Mobile got their hands on some pictures of Verizon’s inventory system. You can see from the picture that Verizon Wireless is planning on phasing it out.
We’ve all heard that the Pre’s sales on Verizon did not go as well as hoped. Could Verizon be ditching the Pre Plus because they weren’t selling great, and they expect to just sell out of the current stock? Are they trying to weed out some smartphones in order to make room for a rumored smartphone from a company in Cupertino? Could it be because they are trying to make room for a new Palm high-end phone in a few months?
Let’s hope that the latter is the case. You can see that Verizon hasn’t put the Pixi Plus in a “Phase Out” status. We all know that Verizon is the biggest carrier of Android phones, but hopefully they will continue to sell webOS phones as well. We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed that the reason Verizon is phasing out the Pre Plus is because they want to be ready to carry a brand-spanking new high-end webOS phone.
[Source: Engadget Mobile]
We’ve been talking about it for a while now, and the day is finally here. Astraware has finally released a pair of games into the Palm App Catalog. OddBlob and Astraware Sudoku are both available for $2.99. Astraware’s website also lists Astraware Casino as “Coming Soon.” Hopefully soon is really soon, because that looks like it could be a lot of fun. Be sure to check out their website for more information on the games.
Sorry Verizon and AT&T webOS users, you have to be running 1.4.5 to download these games. But if your webOS phone is chock filled with 1.4.5 goodness, go ahead and check out the Groovy Clay Dude in OddBlob, or get your number puzzle solving on with Sudoku.
UPDATED with comments from Astraware and Palm from press release on Gamasutra.com
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When you walk through your house on the phone do you drop calls? Do you have little to no data connection while you are on your couch? If the answer to both of those questions is yes and you are a Sprint customer there may be a solution to your problem! The answer to your issues could be answered with a short call or visit to your local Sprint store. Read the rest of this entry »
Ok, so aside from the snide remarks on our podcasts, I normally ignore most things that the webOS competitors are doing, but this one is just too strange to pass up.
As most of you know, our recent Hackathon built a Read It Later client called Relego. Come to find out that today Read It Later was rejected from the App Store because:
Applications cannot require user registration prior to allowing access to app features and content; such user registration must be optional and tied to account-based functionality.
Say wha?
If I am reading this right, you can’t have an app that requires you to sign in before it grants access to features of the app. Isn’t that MOST productivity apps? I am pretty darn sure you can’t do anything with the facebook or any twitter clients without signing in.
This is just so bizarre that I really hope that this is all just a misunderstanding. Next you will tell me that all user registrations must go through iSignup that will be released next week?
I gotta say…this is reason #1231 for why I love webOS and just another reason why I don’t currently own any Apple products. I just wish someone could make beautiful products that function well and aren’t run by a bunch of crazies. Anyone know of a company like that? I would like to buy their products.
Thanks for the heads up @zhephree
Source: DownloadSquad, Read It Later Blog
You hear that? That sound you just heard was a big collective sigh…
The developers over at Evernote are taking a “wait and see” approach to their webOS client.
A lot of people have been complaining that the current webOS Evernote client is pretty riddled with some serious bugs. So what is a paying customer to do? Ask the devs!
Here was the sad, sad response.
We’d love to see the WebOS platform succeed at HP, but our resources are limited, so the WebOS client is currently on the “back burner” while we wait to see what happens with the platform.
Thanks
- Dave Engberg (Evernote)
We have been big fans of Evernote in the past…in fact it was one of our first Top Picks, so we are pretty saddened by this news. I do understand, however, that you only have so much dev time. At least they were upfront about it all. Some of the big devs just drag us along for months without saying anything.
Source: Evernote
It’s no secret that HP’s Rahul Sood (CTO of Gaming and Advanced Computing, former CEO of VoodooPC) loves webOS. In case you ever wanted to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth, you could listen to our webOSradio episode in which he guest-starred, or you can just watch his brand-new YouTube video spelling it out for ya! He starts off with rather bold claims that webOS is “the best, bar-none” mobile operating system on the planet… “better than Android and certainly better than Apple’s iOS, without a question.” No disagreement from us, there. Rahul goes on to preach his love for webOS and the ability to multitask while having an awesome gaming experience on the phone. Without further ado, check it out after the break…
P.S. We couldn’t help but notice our very own webOSroundup To Go app in his launcher… the man certainly has nice taste in apps! ;)
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It was only about two weeks ago when I came up with the idea of having a webOS hackathon (thanks to Ed Finkler for the inspiration). If you think about it, two weeks is not a very long time to coordinate and get an event like this running, but we managed to pull it off.
In all honesty, I didn’t know what to expect…would anyone be interested? How many devs would there be? Would we actually build an app from scratch in 1 day?
In the end though, I couldn’t have been more pleased or excited with the results. The webOS community really is second to none, and I think that this event is just proof of that.
In the end, we had 21 developers/designers join in on some part of the app.
We had 121 people join us at one time in the chat, but it hovered around 35 for most of the day.
This really was a group effort, but I believe that some efforts deserve a little recognition.
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Thanks to everyone who contributed last night and stuck it out through all the obstacles we overcame. I’m proud to announce the fruit of our labor: Relego! Relego is a Read It Later client for webOS. What is Read It Later you ask? Read It Later is a site that collects bookmarks for you to read later (hence the name). They have browser plugins that allow you to quickly mark a page for later reading and, when you have time, you can browse through your saved bookmarks and catch up on your reading.
In addition to creating the app there is also a patch for the webOS browser that will allow you to mark pages you’re reading on your phone for addition to your Read It Later queue. More details on that when it appears in the patch feed. Additionally, we have set up an API for app developers to use so that they can patch in to Read It Later. In fact, we’ll be adding support for that to our very own webOSroundup To Go app shortly.
Please keep in mind that the app is still an early Beta and people are still excited about working on it. If you would like to contribute head over to the Relego Wiki article and find out what remains to be done.
Again, thank you to the webOS developer community and to Palm. You are what make developing for webOS so great!
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