A coder going under the nick “black_zero” ported the PS3 jailbreak to the Palm Pre. Find his instructions for “PS3 Freedom for Palm Pre” on the PSX-Scene.com. [Update] In contrast to “PS3 Groove” this version also seems to enable the possibility of backups – means circumventing of copy protections. It is legally not allowed to [...]

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Adobe.com today announced, that Adobe Flash 10.1 for mobile devices has been released to mobile platform partners: Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via [...]

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The Examiner.com reports that they got information from HP insiders. Under code name “Hurricane” it is rumored that HP and Palm are prepping a slate tablet running Palm’s latest operating system WebOS. Their timeline says Q3/2010. Read more on Examiner.com. With HP in the back that slate could become a real competitor to the iPad. [...]

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Researchers from Intrepidus Group said in an advisory published on Friday last week that Palm’s WebOS operating system is subject to web application vulnerabilities. These bugs can all be traced back to that fact that WebOS is essentially a web browser and the applications are written in JavaScript and HTML. The bugs and vulnerabilites released [...]

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German carrier O2 just revealed the price tags of their latest Palm gadgets: the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus. Distribution will start April 28th, 2010. Pre Plus: 509€ (or 29€ as down payment and 24mth x 20€) Pixi Plus: 389€ (or 29€ as down payment and 24mth x 15€) Both devices come [...]

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Precentral reports that a user has eventually made to unlock european GSM Palm Pre’s. This unlock is not proxy SIM based, it is a software unlock. Luckily this unlocking thing does not apply to german Palm Pre’s as they we got factory unlocked Pre’s anyway. Read more on PreCentral.net…

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German Palm.de site reports that the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus are going to be released in Germany on April 28th, 2010. The exclusive partnership between Palm and O2 in Germany is over, Vodafone is going to offer the Palms aswell. There is currently no information available about pricing. Read more on investor.palm.com…

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As of version 1.4 it seems Palm has managed to get WebOS out of beta status. Anyway there are still some things that could be a tiny bit better. We therefore compiled an (incomplete) list ;-) of packages, we are currently using on our Pre’s. The Requirements These packages require a Palm Pre put into [...]

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We recently reported that the developers unixpsycho and caj2008 released an overclocked kernel for webOS 1.3.5. allowing to run webOS between 720MHz and 800MHz. Now the testing phase is over and they released their patches for webOS 1.4. Check the vid to get an overview how amazing fast webOS is at those clockcycles. Anyway there [...]

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A team of developers consisting mainly of caj2008 and unixpsycho from PreCentral-Forums managed to overclock the Pre, now running 800MHz stable. Currently this requires a custom modified kernel. caj2008 and unixpsycho released a kernel for webOS 1.3.5.1, a kernel for webOS 1.4 is still under development. Anyway you may check this vid: webOS unbelievable fast. [...]

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Jon Zilber of Palm today announced in their blog that besides Electronic Arts also Epic Games support the webOS platform. Epic Games is in the middle of porting their Unreal Engine 3 onto Palm’s webOS. Epic’s Unreal Engine is well known from games like Unreal Tournament. Epic is going to offer licenses for developers to [...]

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John Paczkowski of AllThingsDigital mentioned that sources close to Palm told him, Palm’s Plugin-Development Kit will allow easy porting of Apple iPhone games to WebOS. That could also explain how fast Electronic Arts ported “Need for Speed” to WebOS. » PreCentral.net: Palm to demo porting iPhone games to webOS ‘in a matter of days’ at [...]

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It seems Palm has eventually understood that Germany might be an important market for their Pre. The Pre is the most sold smartphone on the carrier O2 Germany. O2 Germany yesterday started to distribute webOS 1.4. The update we’ve all been waiting for desperately. Free commercial Games for german customers Sadly Electronic Arts’ free download [...]

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Sadly Adobe seems not to release Flash 10.1 beta to end users in february. Anyway the PreCentral’s vid looks promising. See for yourself:

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1. Soft Reboot Hold these keys at once Orange Key + Sym Key + R 2. Make Screenshot Hold these keys at once Orange Key + Sym Key + P 3. Num Lock double click Orange Key 4. Caps Lock double click Shift Key 5. Highlight Text Hold Shift Key and mark text on screen [...]

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Many of us know the phenomenon. The longer we use the iPhone or the Palm Pre the slower it goes. Rebooting the system always helped on either device. For the Palm Pre there is now a solution that is called Reboot Scheduler by Zinge, which allows to automize the reboot process and to schedule it [...]

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Enabling the Developer Mode gives access to a thousand of homebrew apps and apps which are currently under beta testing. There are now two ways known to enable the Pre’s dev mode. 1. Simply enter the Konami cheat code: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart 2. or enter this: webos20090606 in either way, you’ll see a “secret” menu switch that [...]

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Telefonica (O2/MoviStar) has approved Palm’s latest update. We expect they found some bugs that are on the american 1.3.5.1.  The update will be installed automatically over the air. The 15 MB update brings Tethering via Bluetooth and 3D graphics acceleration to European Palm Pre’s, thus allowing us eventually to play Doom, Quake and Need For [...]

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Tablet PCs seem to be the next big thing. After Apple’s smartphone revolution with their iPhone, it seems the next big market revolution might be the Tablet PCs. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft introduced one of the Tablet PCs – a prototype of the HP Slate – last week on the CES 2010. In his presentation [...]

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I. Summary Quite a bunch of news for the Palm community has been presented by Palm’s CEO John Podfather Prefather Rubinstein. Find the whole video presentation at the end of the summary. II. WebOS Update 1.4 WebOS 1.4 will be released in February, 2010 (in the US at least, we Europeans are still waiting for [...]

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