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  • Nearly every app in Palm’s webOS catalog is 50 percent off

    Nearly every app in Palm’s webOS catalog is 50 percent off

    Posted on June 19, 2010 | No Comments
    That's right, deal seekers and Palm fanatics: you can now get (almost) every single app in the webOS catalog for half off until July 9th. There are a few listed exceptions, but hit up the catalog and get downloading.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Nearly every app in Palm's webOS catalog is 50 percent off originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving ‘install failed’ messages in their wake

    webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving ‘install failed’ messages in their wake

    Posted on May 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Just a day before the Pre Plus launches on AT&T, current Palm owners are experiencing all kinds of problems related to the App Store and their Palm Profiles. Reports indicate the problems started last night, since then users haven't been able to download new apps or update existing ones from the catalog, while those unlucky enough to have tried a reset have had trouble signing back into their Palm profile in the cloud, and have lost some information like call logs and had to resync their various accounts in webOS. The Palm Developer Website is also down, tossing a "back in a few hours" sign in the window and going out for a few afternoon mimosas. For now, PreCentral posters recommend taking the device off of network time and resetting it to any day prior to today which will allow apps to install and update without issue. A post on the official Palm blog indicates things should be back to normal "soon" so AT&T customers can hopefully avoid any date/time trickery just to get their Foursquare checkins going.

    [Thanks, William]

    webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving 'install failed' messages in their wake originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 May 2010 16:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • webOS paid apps coming to Europe in March 2010

    webOS paid apps coming to Europe in March 2010

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Okay, so this is quite the lag from October's North American availability, but at least when the paid portion of Palm's App Catalog rolls out across Europe it shouldn't experience the stuttering start it suffered back in the US of A. Palm has excitedly blurted out the news on its developer network blog, but not without the requisite garnishings of buzzwords like "leverage," "freedom," "choice," "control," and "speed," as well as something about "faster cycle times" -- all of it designed to get more developers onboard. Kinda ironic the company is boasting about fast cycle times when it can't transition its paid Catalog to Europe in less than six months, but hey -- the Pre already has that one killer app, and it's free, so what do you care?

    [Thanks, Ben]

    webOS paid apps coming to Europe in March 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Palm Pre plays Need for Speed, undercover (video)

    Palm Pre plays Need for Speed, undercover (video)

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    While Palm's Pre is many things to many people it still can't game. Oh sure, it'll play Magic Fortune Ball like a champ but when it comes to intensive 3D action the Pre is as helpless as a would-be terrorist trying to ignite his underwear. See, webOS and the Mojo SDK currently can't exploit the GPU the way other smartphone platforms can. Rewind a few weeks, however, and we're reminded of a video showing EA's Need for Speed Undercover running impossibly smooth on a Pre. At the time, the video and claims of the device running Flash were shot down as fake largely due to the accompanying screen caps of the purportedly new App Catalog. Well guess what? Those screen caps were vindicated today with the webOS 1.3.5 update that just so happened to launch a new App Catalog matching the leaked images, exactly. That lends credence to the video then doesn't it, while hinting at future apps and games with full OpenGL graphics support. Is that the big reveal at CES alongside enhanced Pre+ and Pixi+ handsets headed to Big Red? We'll find out shortly enough -- until then check the gameplay after the break.

    [Thanks, Brian K.]

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    Palm Pre plays Need for Speed, undercover (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • webOS 1.3.5 to finally kill off app storage limit?

    webOS 1.3.5 to finally kill off app storage limit?

    Posted on December 4, 2009 | No Comments
    There's no debating it: having 8GB of onboard storage on your phone is great. What's even better, though, is if you can actually use it -- and currently, owners of Palm Pres and Pixis are stuck with an arbitrary limit for curious technical reasons that caps app installations after a couple hundred megabytes and change. Back in the day when the App Catalog had a few dozen submissions, that was fine and dandy -- but these days, owners are staring down the barrel of a selection more than 500 apps deep, so the time's definitely come to put this annoyance to bed. PreCentral is reporting that webOS 1.3.5 will finally kill this one by moving app storage to another partition on the device's memory -- the media partition -- which has about 7GB free on a completely virgin phone. Coincidentally, this is the same partition that gets used when you hook up mass storage mode on a PC, so to prevent unencumbered copying of apps off the device, Palm will allegedly be employing some sort of on-the-fly encryption that keeps apps secure while connected. Next step, Palm: microSD expansion so we can install each and every one of those 500-plus apps. What do you say?

    webOS 1.3.5 to finally kill off app storage limit? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Palm demos web-based Ares SDK for webOS

    Palm demos web-based Ares SDK for webOS

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments

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    Currently, mobile entrepreneurs wishing to hawk their wares on the Pre (or Pixi, or unnamed webOS device of the future) use a software development kit from Palm called Mojo, a stack of Java-based tools that must be installed, studied, understood, loved, and respected before serious development can get underway. Palm sees that as a barrier of entry for web-oriented developers who want to make the leap to mobile apps, though, which is why they've crafted a new SDK called Ares that's based entirely on web technologies -- in fact, there's no install at all, apparently. Much of the interface is said to be drag-and-drop with enough JavaScript exposed to make your local .com designer feel right at home, potentially opening the app landscape to a whole new set of folks -- and considering that the App Catalog is tens of thousands of goodies behind the App Store and Android Market, they can use every loyal dev they get.

    Palm demos web-based Ares SDK for webOS originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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