PCR-online.biz HP shows off Web-OS devices PCR-online.biz The TouchPad tablet device and Palm Pre 3 smartphone were attracting the crowds at HP's Gadget Show stand, as the vendor championed the virtues of its Web-OS mobile operating system.
The last couple of months have been a busy time of travel for me, Ben Combee, and the HP Palm Developer Relations team. Our tour started in mid-September with web 2.0 Expo in New York City. Our former directors, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer were on a panel on the future of web browser , while HP Palm had a presence on the vendor floor where Kevin Hague, Lisa Brewster, and I talked about our system and phones, the Mojo JavaScript framework, and the Ares web-based development environment to attendees during breaks.
Palm has released webOS 1.2.1 for its Palm Pre smartphone, restoring the device’s Media Sync functionality—which allows it to sync with iTunes by masquerading as an iPod—while adding the ability to sync photos. As it has done in the past, webOS 1.2.1 achieves this by identifying itself over the USB connection as an Apple product, complete with Apple’s USB Vendor ID number. This behavior was …
Palm re-enabled iTunes sync with webOS 1.2.1 by continuing their trend of making the Pre look like an iPod.
Many stated concern when Palm officially announced the ability to sync with iTunes, without getting approval from Apple. In the months that have followed, Apple and Palm have battled back and forth on the issue, with the latest iTunes stopping the sync ability with the Palm Pre.
