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webOS gets OTA update, delivers performance improvements and bug fixes

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:48:00 +0000

With so many of us performing funeral dirges in honor of webOS it’s easy to forget that the tablet and smartphone platform is still officially supported HP. In fact, just today, the company issued yet another incremental update — pushing TouchPads to version 3.0.5, while Pre 2 and Pre 3 handsets are moving on up to 2.2.4

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Mr Fussy mods Samsung Galaxy S for inductive charging, without frazzling warranty (video)

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:37:00 +0000

It’s not hard to find a good inductive charging smartphone these days, but German IT student Qian Qin absolutely had to have the feature on his Galaxy S Plus . What’s more, it needed to be just right: no voiding of the warranty and no unsightly protrusions. So, instead of bumping his gums, he went out and purchased a Palm Pre back cover and a Touchstone dock for €30 ($40), ripped the charging circuit out of the Pre cover and stuck it into the Samsung’s cover, then finally soldered a wire from the circuit to the micro-USB port (plus another wire to the microSD slot for 0V).

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Buzz Out Loud 1532: President Obama’s on Foursquare (Podcast) – CNET (blog)

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:11:12 +0000

Buzz Out Loud 1532: President Obama's on Foursquare (Podcast) CNET (blog) They've been gunning after rim since the palm pre came out.

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Buzz Out Loud 1532: President Obama’s on Foursquare (Podcast) – CNET (blog)

A brief history of Android phones – CNET (blog)

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:07:42 +0000

A brief history of Android phones CNET (blog) Can't wait to get rid of my palm pre . by QA_Tester December 13, 2010 3:10 PM PST Hopefully HP will actually start releasing mode handsets.

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HP now offering Verizon-branded Palm Pre 2 for zilch on contract

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:24:00 +0000

Living within the screwy reality of the subsidized phone world sometimes results in rather comical distortions.

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HP Pre 3: 1.4GHz Qualcomm CPU, 3.6-inch WVGA, coming this summer (video)

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:32:00 +0000

The first Pre breathed new life into Palm. The Pre 2 , on the other hand, didn’t exactly have the same luster and longevity. Here’s to a decidedly Palm-less round three .

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Palm Pre 2 up for pre-order tomorrow on Verizon Wireless

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:28:00 +0000

Here at HP’s ‘Think Beyond’ webOS event, Jon Rubinstein just announced that the Pre 2 will be available to pre-order tomorrow on Verizon Wireless, right in line with what rumors had suggested.

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Software keyboard pops up in webOS 2.0, dreams of a Palm slate phone flourish

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:13:00 +0000

A software keyboard may sound anathema to Palm, with its rich history of wonderful QWERTY keyboards, but you had to feel it was coming, what with the wild consumer adoption of slate devices and, you know, the economy these days. Well, after a short history of hints in webOS 2.0′s code and a longer history of hacks , a full-on Palm-developed software keyboard has been found in shipping webOS 2.0 devices. It takes a little bit of a hack and a restart, and apparently it’s buggy as well, oh and you have to use the physical keyboard to enter the Opt+Sym+K command that opens the virtual keys

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You Can Buy the Palm Pre 2 for $450 From Today [Palm]

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:15:37 +0000

Running webOS 2.0 and sporting a 1GHz processor, the GSM version of the Pre 2 is now on sale unlocked for $450 over at HP’s site. [ HP via BGR ] More

Sprint’s Palm Pre marked for End of Life?

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:51:00 +0000

We don’t quite know how to break it to you, but if PreCentral sources are correct, Palm’s hit a very interesting landmark: its comeback device, the Pre for Sprint, has reportedly reached End of Life (EOL). Warehouse quantities are said to be limited, and after that…

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Unlocked GSM Palm Pre 2 to be ‘available direct from HP,’ Gorilla Glass on the front

admin — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:35:00 +0000

We’ve been toying with a Palm Pre 2 for a few weeks now, but given that it’s not “final hardware,” we can’t exactly make any firm judgments on the unit itself. Tim Pettitt, product manager for HP Palm, can .

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N900 can run unmodified webOS games, what can your Linux-based phone do?

admin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:56:00 +0000

Ah, standards. Palm and Nokia know what we’re talking about, which is why they support similar methods of developing native Linux apps, namely SDL 1.2. Add on the hardware similarities between the Palm Pre and the N900 (OMAP3430, PowerVR SGX, Open GL ES 2.0 support) and you have a beautiful recipe for cross-platform gaming

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Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0 showcased in new commercial

admin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:08:00 +0000

It’s hard to tell if the ad embedded after the break is purely official, but it definitely reeks of HP. In a good way, that is.

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WebOS 2.0 Now Official, Arriving On Palm Pre 2 "In the Coming Months" In US [Hp]

admin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:52:28 +0000

It’s always nice when rumors actually hold up: HP just officially introduced the world to webOS 2.0 and confirmed its flagship handset, the Palm Pre 2 . So this is why HP spent all that money . Let’s take a quick spin.

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Apple applies for patent to kill jailbroken devices – CNET

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:54:43 +0000

Apple applies for patent to kill jailbroken devices CNET They recently hired the guy that did the palm pre interface to do something similar. So it shouldn't be too long now. by My_2_Cents August 22, …

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