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Palm Pixi shows off 3D gaming chops with webOS 1.4.5 release (video)

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:53:00 +0000

What with all the “battery optimization” excitement , we nearly forgot that Sprint’s new webOS 1.4.5 update doesn’t just empower the Pre; it also finally brings PDK’d OpenGL and SDL support to the Palm Pixi. On the off chance you don’t speak developer lingo, that’s short for 3D apps and games, and as it turns out the pint-sized Pixi doesn’t play the latter half-badly

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Screen Grabs: Pretty Little Liars is TV’s newest home to egregious product placement (video)

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:25:00 +0000

Scene: Impossibly mature high school “girls” mingling in front of a locker. Action! Bitter Barbie: “What are you doing

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Screen Grabs: Pretty Little Liars is TV’s newest home to egregious product placement (video)

HP partners with video conferencing firm Vidyo, drops hints at mobile applications

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:19:00 +0000

The ink’s barely dry on HP’s acquisition of some assets from Phoenix , but that’s not the company’s only recent deal — it also announced a partnership with video conferencing firm Vidyo last week. That wouldn’t necessarily be all that notable in and of itself, but HP seems to be going out of its way to talk up the potential mobile implications of the deal, with HP’s Halo marketing manager Darren Podrabsky offering the following tidbit to PreCentral : We’ve talked about the desktop. Think mobile.

EVO 4G receives a Palm Pre inductive charging transplant (video)

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:40:00 +0000

Oh yes, an HTC EVO has been modded with the inductive charging coil ripped from the still beating heart of a Palm Pre. The 30 minute soldering project does have the side effect of rendering compass apps useless while creating a slight bulge in the battery cover

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webOS booted up on a PC, just for kicks

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:20:00 +0000

It’s always been possible to run webOS on a PC using the emulator built into Palm’s SDK, but it turns out that the OS image used for the emulator can actually be installed on an IDE hard drive and booted from — which is exactly what one enterprising member of the PreCentral forums did with his Dell C600 laptop.

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Nokia N900 overclocked to 1GHz in bid to outrun obsolescence (video)

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:22:00 +0000

Given all the Cortex A8 processor clock tweaking going on we admit to being just a little surprised to be reading the first overclocking reports on the eminently hackable N900 only now.

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Kyocera Zio M6000 hands-on: you get what pay for

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:40:00 +0000

It’s totally unfair to Kyocera that we played with its new Zio M6000 mid-tier Android smartphone mere hours after our first look at the HTC EVO 4G , but while we were excited to see a cheaper phone with an 800 x 480 screen, the end result is pretty disappointing. The device crams that resolution into a 3.5-inch screen, which wouldn’t be so bad if the capacitive touchscreen element wasn’t so low-end.

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Kyocera Zio M6000 hands-on: you get what pay for

Verizon vs. AT&T: Pre Plus edition

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:55:00 +0000

Sure, Verizon and AT&T shout at each other across our TV airwaves all the time, but how often do we get to see two exactly same phones running on both carriers?

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Palm’s webOS 1.4 update now available for Sprint, O2 and Movistar phones

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:43:00 +0000

No leaks or release date rumors this time, a mere 39mb download is all that separates your Sprint, O2 or Movistar connected Pre from video recording, Flash , enhanced message notifications and much-desired performance and battery life improvements. Verizon, Bell and Telcel customers are unfortunately still waiting for their day in the sun, only specified by the official Palm blog as “soon.” Check out Palm’s trailer for the new features and the full webOS 1.4 changelog after the break, after queueing up the download of course.

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Sprint confirms Pre and Pixi webOS 1.4 update coming tomorrow (update: full changelog!)

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:01:00 +0000

Just hours after we wrapped our mitts around what looked to be Palm’s official webOS 1.4 changelog , along comes this: confirmation from none other than Sprint itself. According to a post on the carrier’s official forums by Sprint Admin ‘izzyks,’ both the Pre and Pixi will see the long-awaited webOS 1.4 update hit sometime tomorrow evening. As always, users will see an OTA alert when the new files are ready for consumption, and you can find a full list of the fixes and changes just beyond the break

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Sprint confirms Pre and Pixi webOS 1.4 update coming tomorrow (update: full changelog!)

Sprint confirms Pre and Pixi webOS 1.4 update coming tomorrow

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:41:00 +0000

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ScummVM Game Engine Coming to webOS

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:43:06 +0000

Fresh on the triumph of getting Doom and Quake working and playable, the webOS Internals team is working on getting an entire existing game environment running on the Pre: ScummVM. For those that aren’t familiar with it, ScummVM is a multi-platform virtual machine for games developed using LucasArts ’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion), and includes classic Lucasfilm games like Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road as well as games from Activision, Adventuresoft, SierraAGI ( Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards !) Humongous Entertainment (the Freddi Fish series) and many more. (The complete current ScummVM compatibility list is here .) More details – and a video – after the break! read more

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ScummVM Game Engine Coming to webOS

Nokia: Video Review, Smartphone Round Robin

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:45:18 +0000

I can’t tell you how pumped I

Palm Pre vs Motorola Droid

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:55:29 +0000

Android and WebOS are both relatively new platforms. Android was launched in the second half of 2008 and WebOS was launched in the first half of 2009.

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New apps and updates in the App Catalog 12-03-2009

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:26:23 +0000

It is that time of night.

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New apps and updates in the App Catalog 12-03-2009