When I first booted up the Palm Pre with Palm’s WebOS, it made me create a Palm Profile account and then walked me through a short tutorial followed by a video about how to use the Palm WebOS operating system. The tutorial makes you practice using the gesture area to invoke “Back” commands as well as teaches you about closing applications and switching between them. It’s similar to what HTC has done with their TouchFLO …
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Palm Pre Unboxing
Here we unbox the Palm Pre, Touchstone, and car charger that arrived the other day. The Pre’s accessories are very similar to the Treo Pro’s. I like the Pre’s little protective pouch, and the Touchstone magnetic charging dock is excellent. All phones should have one of those! Originally published on Pocketnow on June 20, 2009. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingPalm Pre In The House
You may have already seen our video of the Palm Pre launch event in New York City June 5th, but now we’ve got the real device in our hands for some “Chronicles of a Windows Mobile User Gone Web OS” action. Stay tuned for more coverage and comparisons on Palm’s highly hyped and anticipated new device. Originally published on Pocketnow on June 19, 2009. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingTouch-Screen QWERTY Keyboards Are Lame
Since the T-Mobile G1 Android phone was upgraded to Android 1.5 last week, I had a re-occurance of an epiphany I had once long ago… 1999 to be exact. Back in 1999 I got my first Windows CE Palm-sized PC. It was the very feature-rich Uniden UniPRO PC100, and like the Palm-Pilot’s of the time, it didn’t have a hardware keyboard, just a touch screen. Its default input method was an on-screen QWERTY keyboard where …
Continue readingDo You Even Use Multiple Calendars?
Palm’s launch demo of the new Palm Pre’s multiple calendar support was pretty impressive. You can select from multiple Gmail calendars, multiple Exchange calendars, and a Palm Profile calendar. This is similar to Android’s support for multiple calendars (except Android only supports Gmail). The Palm Pre allows you to create appointments in each calendar account separately and the appointments will only sync with the account you selected. My questions is, do you or would you …
Continue readingLive Palm Pre Launch Event Broadcast from Palm Treo Pro
Tonight I will be attending a Palm Pre launch event in New York City, and I thought it would be interesting to use the Sprint Palm Treo Pro in combination with Qik to stream the experience live. If you see video below, the streaming is working. If you don’t see video below, the Treo Pro may be in my pocket, turned off, the battery is dead, nothing exciting is happening, or I’m done. Recordings will …
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