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
This doesn’t really come as a surprise, but it’s welcome news regardless.
Palm might be able to use a bit of good news right about now, but it looks like it may not be able to count on that coming from AT&T. As AllThingsD ‘s John Paczkowski reports, Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek is now saying that Palm’s still as yet unconfirmed launch on AT&T has been pushed back from its rumored April debut to June or July.
After a disappointing initial effort , Palm has unleashed version 1.1.0 of its webOS Facebook app.
The Palm Pre is coming to Verizon early next year.
Well, we knew it was coming today , and it’s here now—Sprint is pushing WebOS’s latest update to Palm Pres and Pixis as you read this.
Even in a world full of racket, it seems that the squeaky wheel still gets the grease. In yet another blow to this whole “cloud” agenda, a vocal segment of Palm users began to notice that information transferred from their online Palm Profile was only a fraction of what it should have been. Today, both Palm and Sprint have issued a joint statement acknowledging the issue and promising to work much, much harder in order to avoid having something like this ruin your life once again.
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Palm’s new Pixi just got $5 cheaper, less than 2 weeks after its launch, selling for $25 at Wal-mart and now Amazon. The Palm Pre is also $80. I call this a deal on a phone with a terrific UI on a terrific network, but I’d pay double these rates if the Palm had a more sizable app library.
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Sprint , EV-DO , CDMA , webOS Palm’s second-ever webOS device has just landed at Engadget HQ, and naturally we put it through the paces to bring you the low-down.
The folks at Engadget already got their hands on the new Palm Pixi TV Ad that will be rolling very soon. I like it.
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , webOS We’ve already seen a quick Palm Pixi unboxing and hands-on video , but we’re guessing most folks are looking for a bit more than that in the lead-up to launch day . Thankfully, YouTube user stayfly2407 has come through with a video that, for the first time, clearly shows the Pixi running webOS 1.3.1, which may or may not be the version the phone actually ships with — it was only just recently seeded to developers. The video unfortunately doesn’t show any new features associated with this version, however, but it does seem to be speedy enough even in spite of the Pixi’s slower processor.
