Today WebOS Internals' Rod Whitby sent a few words out in a speech at webOS Developer Day in NYC about webOS Homebrew development. All the way back to a million years ago, 2009, when the Palm Pre was released, to now, and looking ahead. Preware 2.0 Plans include the following: Instant On. Need I say more? Everyone loves that. Currently loading Preware requires a scan and parse of all needed files - in the future, loading packages from db8 will make the whole process more dynamic and quick. Then, the db8 feature will more more easily sync an app to the cloud, allowing it to update in the background.
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Rod Whitby of webOS Internals Details Roadmap for Preware 2.0
Palm Mansion to Feature 5-Inch Display, webOS 2.0 Coming to All Devices Soon [UPDATE: Palm's Josh Marinacci Video Speech Added]
When Palm and HP officially announced the webOS 2.0-equipped Palm Pre 2, we hear that the device would be launching on Verizon in the United States "in the coming months." For HP and Palm, that seems to be the slogan of choice, when it comes to webOS. Today, Josh Marinacci confirmed that webOS 2.0 would indeed be coming to all of the available devices "in the coming months." However, perhaps more interesting, is a new rumor floating around that the Palm Mansion, a name that we've heard floating around before, will feature a 5-inch display.
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Palm Pre 2 hits US for $450 unlocked
HP has begun sales of the US Palm Pre 2, in this case the unlocked GSM version of the updated webOS smartphone. Priced at $449.99 and available to ship within 24hrs, the Pre 2 comes with a 1GHz processor, webOS 2.0 and a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, as well as a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. There's also WiFi b/g and 16GB of fixed internal storage.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: November 17 2010
Today we talk about, believe it or not, methane powered computers! Better hope you don't get too close to a heat source. Uh oh. Then there's a Berlin showing of some fantastic looking color e-paper, sponsored by Bridgestone, Epson, and Samsung, but made by an unknown producer. Then PALM throws down the gauntlet saying they'll reclaim their smartphone "birthright" soon, and BYD Alice Tegra 2 Froyo tablet wants a chomp of the tablet market too. All this and MORE on todays SlashGear Morning Wrap-up!
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Palm to reclaim smartphone “birthright” with phones & “a great tablet” tips Rubinstein
Palm chief Jon Rubinstein has blamed a shortfall in resources for the company squandering its "birthright" to the smartphone market, an omission it seems has quickly been addressed since the acquisition by HP. Speaking at the Web 2.0 conference, Rubinstein said that "we've actually pulled a couple hundred people out of HP and made them part of Palm. We're using them to broaden our scope and we're just cranking away." As to what they're cranking away on, Rubinstein says to expect "some smartphones, a great tablet coming."
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UK Palm Pre 2 on sale November 12
The Palm Pre 2 is apparently set to hit the UK on Friday, November 12 - the end of this week - with Palm expecting to sell the 1GHz smartphone SIM-free initially. The company let slip the date to Pocket-lint, but failed to mention any potential carriers for the webOS 2.0 handset; in France, where the Pre 2 has been on sale since late October, carrier SFR is offering the phone exclusively.
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New Palm Device Codenames: Broadway, Windsor, Mantaray, Stingray, and Roadrunner
New evidence has sprung forth from the secret news fountain of a tiny batch of names named by WebOS Internals as they dug through SFR's webOS 2.0 build for the Palm Pre 2. Each of the words found is more than likely a codename for a new Palm device, as evidenced by the fact that they were found in a string designed to display the message "temporarily not restoring logs for newer devices." The names are thus: Broadway, Windsor, Mantaray, Stingray, and Roadrunner.
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Palm’s Hot Apps Winners Finally Unveiled, Angry Birds Takes Top Position
Back in March, we told you about the PDK Hot Apps competition that Palm was holding, hoping to get some of the best mobile applications shown off for their webOS-based devices. In the process, application developers had the opportunity to win upwards of $100,000 in prize money. And, finally, while the competition ended a couple of weeks ago, Palm has finally unveiled who the winners were, and in which category.
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webOS torrent tipped as Palm plan 5-6 devices for 2011
With the mildly-tweaked Palm Pre 2 leaving a less than pleasant taste in our collective mouths, the news that there are 5-6 new devices in the pipeline for 2011 is like a blast of cool, refreshing seltzer to the face. According to CENS, Palm has inked contracts with Foxconn, who will provide four to five new devices, and Compal, who will provide one further device, in the coming year. Among the line-up is the Foxconn-made PalmPad webOS tablet.
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Spotify for webOS arrives on Pre and Pixi
Spotify continues to be one of the more compelling mobile applications out there, and the company's next target is webOS. They've announced that Spotify for the Palm Pre, Pixi, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus - and, we're presuming, the upcoming Palm Pre 2 - has just landed in the webOS app store. As with the Android, iOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian versions, it allows for searching Spotify's catalog of streaming music and offline playback.
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Palm Pre 2 Hitting Verizon Shelves November 11th, Sources Claim
We've already seen an internal training document claiming that the Palm Pre 2 would be landing on Verizon's network some time in the future, but then we got confirmation from HP that the device, the true successor to the original Palm Pre (or Palm Pre Plus, even) would be landing on Verizon "in the coming months." To some, that "coming months" part would mean that HP is aiming for a holiday shopping release, but it could also mean that they'll miss that date and land some time in early 2011. According to some sources speaking with Droid-Life, it may be sooner than we all assumed.
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Palm Pre 2 gets official with HP webOS 2.0
HP has officially announced the Palm Pre 2, the much-rumored replacement to the original Pre, and running HP webOS 2.0. Headed to Verizon and a Canadian carrier "in the coming months", but making its debut on French carrier SFR this Friday, the Palm Pre 2 has a 3.1-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 1GHz processor and 16GB of onboard storage.
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