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Palm Pre Plus is a multitasking workhorse, 50 apps opened at the same time
Jan 22nd
A recent multitasking test from Precentral.net has shown the upcoming Palm Pre Plus (with more RAM than the original Palm Pre) is capable of openning 50 applications at the same time. And this is amazing if you compare to iPhone, and even multitasking capable devices like Windows Mobile devices and Android handsets.
The original post is here and you can view the video below.
Would Palm Pre Plus my next device? 
Palm CES 2010 presentation video
Jan 8th
Here is the full video (about 1 hour) of Palm’s presentation in CES 2010. If you are interest in Palm’s WebOS platforms, it covers quite a lot of updates regarding their new development:
- Pre coming to SFR in France
- PreCentral webOS App Gallery brings the App Catalog to your browser
- Palm reveals open web distribution of webOS apps
- Video recording coming to webOS
- Flash 10.1 coming soon to a Palm near you
- Palm makes the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus official, Verizon only, and with tethering
- webOS 1.4 coming in February with built-in Flash, video, etc
- Palm CES 2010 Presentation Gallery
- Hands-On with the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus!
[via precentral]
Plam Pre Plus and Pixi Plus specs leaked
Jan 7th
A leaked Verizon document reveals detailed specifications about the upcoming Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus models.
The Pre Plus will come with 16GB of internal memory, as opposed to the original Pre on Sprint of 8GB. It has a 3.1″ capacitive display with 320×480 resolution and multi-touch support, slide out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, EVDO Rev A, 3MP camera with LED Flash, Bluetooth, video and music playback, and document viewer.
The Pixi Plus will come with 8GB of internal memory, 2.63″ capacitive display with 320×480 resolution and multi-touch support, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, EVDO Rev A, 2MP camera with LED flash, Bluetooth, video and music playback, and document viewer.
Both the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus will not come with microSD memory card slot and will not support video recording.
[via phonearena]
WebOS reaches a new milestone – hardware accelerated 3D gaming
Jan 4th
Palm seems to be working hard to add more features to its WebOS. And the latest is the 3D hardware accelarated gaming. The webosinternal channel on Youtube is showing a demo of Doom running on Palm Pre and it has reached a pretty impressive stage. It is working at high speed and the graphic is smooth. When Palm finishes the development of the 3D API for WebOS, we will see full 3D games start to appear in the App Catalog.
Palm Ares development tool shown on video
Dec 31st
Interested in the latest web based development tool for WebOS from Palm? Here is a video of it. If you are interested in writing applications for WebOS platform, this might be interesting to you. It is demoed by an experienced Ares developer and it shows quite a number of interesting aspects of Ares, like drag-and-drop, integration with Flickr, etc.
Enjoy!!
Palm’s latest web development platform for WebOS – Ares, available for public beta
Dec 18th
After a short while of private testing with developers, Palm‘s latest killer development platform, Ares, is now opened for public beta.
This development platform is built entirely on web, developers do not need to download anything. Just goto http://ares.palm.com to start coding, visually. The platform is also made easy for developer collaboration and app submission to Palm’s App Catalog.
Ares includes
- Complete integrated development environment
- Drag-and-drop interface builder
- Code editor
- Visual debugger
- Log viewer
- Source control integration
- Fingertip access to the full library of Mojo UI widgets
- Push-button project & scene creation
- Drag-and-drop file upload
- Instant project upload & download for seamless desktop/cloud workflow
- Preview apps in the browser
- Run apps directly on the webOS emulator or device (requires SDK installation)
- Use Ares in Safari, Chrome or Firefox
By releasing Ares, Palm is hoping to get more developers to develop for the WebOS platform and eventually more apps for WebOS platform.
What do you think, developers?
[via precentral]
If you can’t wait for Motorola MILESTONE, Acer A1 and Palm Pre to be officially available in Singapore
Dec 9th
Expansys has the phones you are waiting for. People from Singapore, if you are waiting for these phones (MILESTONE, A1, Palm Pre) to be officially available in Singapore, you can either keep waiting, or get them now from Expansys.
Prices for now:
Motorola MILESTONE (DROID): SGD896.49
Acer A1: SGD734.99
Palm Pre: SGD994.99
Goto Expansys Singapore web site and get one for Chirstmas now.
