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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[Pre] WebOS 1.3.5.2 Released in Europe
January 12th, 2010 
J. Epstein 
Posted in News 
Tags: 1.3.5, 1.3.5.1, 1.3.5.2, Deutschland, Emergency Patch Recovery, EPR, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Movistar, O2, Orange, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Preware, Rubinstein, Telefonica, UK, update, WebOS 
1 Comment »[e-Biz] The Slate Tablets Are Coming
January 11th, 2010 B. Kreisky 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 [...]
Posted in News Tags: 2010, Amazon, Apple, Apple Tablet, C E S, CEO, CES 2010, CES2010, Consumer Electrics Show, Consumer Electronics Show, Dell, HP Slate, iPhone, iSlate, Jon Rubinstein, Kindle, Las Vegas, Microsoft, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Slate, Steve Ballmer, Steve Bezos, Steve Jobs, Tablet, Tablet Mac, Tablet PC, Touchscreen, Windows 7 1 Comment »[e-Biz] Palm’s Presentation on the CES 2010
January 8th, 2010 J. Epstein 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 [...]
Posted in News Tags: 2010, Bono, CES, CES 2010, Elevation Partners, February, John Rubinstein, McNamee, Palm, Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Pixi, Pixi Plus, Plus, Pre, PreCentral, Presentation, Roger, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Video, Video Recording, webOS 1.4 No Comments »[Pre] webOS 1.3.5, webOS 1.3.5.1 and the CES 2010
January 6th, 2010 J. Epstein European customers are still waiting for webOS 1.3.5 update. The European carrier Telefonica (o2 and MoviStar) seems not to have approved it yet. Meanwhile it seems versions 1.3.5 had issues. According to PreCentral.net, Palm Pre customers on Sprint (USA) and Bell (Canada) are able to update to version 1.3.5.1 since Januar 5th, 2010. Version 1.3.5 [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Pre Tags: 3, Accelaration, CES, CES 2010, Doom, EMH, GPU, Graphics Acceleration, Palm, Palm Pre, Palm Pre 3, Palm Pre Plus, Plus, Pre, Rubinstein, update, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, WebOS, webOS 1.3.5, webOS 1.3.5.1, webOS Internals. Emergency Migration Helper No Comments »[misc] Web Empfang von MMS mit Alice / Hansenet
December 13th, 2009 alexander Wir alle kennen die Situation. Ein Freund sendet uns eine MMS und wir erhalten eine SMS stattdessen, obgleich unser Telefon MMS fähig ist. Warum eigentlich? Nun das ist sehr einfach: sofern man selbst keine MMS bislang versendet hat, geht der Provider davon aus, dass man kein MMS fähiges Mobiltelefon besitzt. Das ist einerseits ein guter [...]
[iPhone] Multi-Tasking With Multifl0w
December 1st, 2009 J. Epstein Multifl0w is an attempt to bring multi-tasking capabilities known from our latest toy – the Palm Pre – to the iPhone. Sadly this nice (and overdue) feature is only available to iPhone customers having jailbroken their devices. It does not feature the Palm Pre’s multitasking gestures nor the ‘swipe up to exit’ functionality, but it [...]
Posted in News Tags: 3G, 3GS, Demo, Hack, iPhone, Jailbreak, Jailbroken, Multi Fl0w, Multi Flow, Multi-Tasking, Multifl0w, Multiflow, Multitasking, Palm Pre, Trial, Unlock No Comments »[Pre] Re-Enable Full App Catalog in Europe
November 25th, 2009 B. Kreisky The European Update 1.3.1 On Monday European Palm Pre users were just happy to eventually have the 1.3.1 update that has already been provided to U.S. customers two weeks earlier. Sadly the smiling in our faces didn’t last long. European customers rapidly found out that their App Catalog had been crippled. PreCentral explains why this [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Pre Tags: 1.3.1, App Catalog, App Store, Beschränkung, Cripple, Crippled, Deutschland, Espagna, Espana, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Limit, Limited, Movistar, O2, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, root, Spain, Terminal, United Kingdom, update 2 Comments »[Pre] WebOS Update 1.3.1 Released in Europe
November 23rd, 2009 J. Epstein As of today European GSM Palm Pre customers on the Telefonica networks (O2 Germany, O2 UK, Movistar Spain) can download and install WebOS Update 1.3.1. After downloading the 134MBytes update it will be validate for about some five minutes. Have your battery loaded, installation will take another 10 minutes. Now, go and get it. It [...]
Posted in News Tags: 1.3.1, competition, England, Espagna, Espana, Facebook, Germany, Great Britain, iPhone, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Rubinstein, Spain, United Kingdom, update, Upgrade, WebOS No Comments »[Pre] Update 1.3.1 for GSM to be Released Nov 23, 2009 ?
November 22nd, 2009 J. Epstein According to a posting to the german Nexave forums the european Palm Pre 1.3.1 update (for GSM phones) will be released on monday November 23, 2009. The update does not seem to include activation of the GPU. We recommend to remove custom installed homebrew patches. Features: Synergy: – Calendar and Contacts synchronization with Yahoo! LinkedIn [...]
Posted in News Tags: 1.3.1, Europe, Facebook, GPU, GSM, iTunes 9, Missing Sync, Monday, O2, Palm Pre, Sync, Synch, Synchronisation, synchronization, Telefonica, update, Upgrade, WebOS 1 Comment »[iPhone] The Thing With Adobe Flash
November 14th, 2009 J. Epstein Yesterday we’ve shown you a screenshot of the Adobe Flash download page, when you’re browsing it from a Palm Pre. Now we made this test with an iPhone. Sadly the result is what we’ve expected. Adobe and Apple are obviously in ugly negotiations. Visiting the http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ from an iPhone you can see this: Flash Player [...]
[Pre] Flash Coming to Palm Pre in First Half 2010
November 13th, 2009 J. Epstein Although beta versions of Adobe Flash for the Palm Pre seem to be available soon (at least for developers), end users will have to wait significantly longer. Visiting http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer on a Palm Pre shows the following text. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is coming to Palm WebOS in the first half of 2010. Via Precentral.net
Posted in News Tags: 10.1, 2010, Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash, iPhone, Macromedia, Palm Pre, Player No Comments »[Pre] Palm Pixi Running webOS 1.3.1 in the Wild
November 11th, 2009 J. Epstein On November 15th, 2009 it is rumored the new webOS 1.3.1 will be made available to worldwide Palm Pre users. On Monday a video on YouTube appeared that already shows a Palm Pixi running the new webOS 1.3.1. Besides some boost in speed, the web browser in the 1.3.1 update obviously is able to recognize [...]
[Pre] Palm Pre Unboxing in Spain
November 4th, 2009 J. Epstein Pixel y Dixel made a video from their Palm Pre unboxing session. Attention this video is in spanish. There are no subtitles available at this moment…
Posted in News Tags: case, Lock, Locked, Movistar, Open, Palm Pre, SIM locked, Spain, spanish, Telefonica, Unbox, Unbxing No Comments »[Pre] UK’s O2 Palm Pre Unlocked using RebelSIM?
November 4th, 2009 J. Epstein A video appeared showing that SIM locked Palm Pre’s from the UK seems to have been unlocked using a proxy SIM solution called RebelSIM. There is no further detailed information about if this is a safe unlock like with the proxy SIMs for the first gen iPhones or i RebelSIM cards use IMSI fake IDs. [...]
Posted in News Tags: baseband, British, carrier lock, England, Great Britain, Hack, iPhone Dev Team, Keyboard, Lock, O2, Palm Pre, Proxy SIM, Rebel SIM, RebelSIM, Scottland, Telefonica, Unlock 1 Comment »[Pre] Rumors about SIM Unlock for EU GSM Version
October 28th, 2009 J. Epstein As of now the only factory unlocked Palm Pre’s are being sold here in Germany. German Palm Pre’s are of course being sold with a germany QWERTZ keyboard. Anyway some international customers prefer the international QWERTY keyboard. Now rumors in spanish forums have surfaced that the spanish GSM based Palm Pre sold by and locked [...]
Posted in News Tags: Branded, Carrier, carrier lock, iPhone Dev Team, Lock, Movistar, O2, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Rubinstein, Sim, sim unlock, Telefonica, Unlock No Comments »[Pre] Palm Allows Distribution of WebOS Apps outside App Catalog
October 6th, 2009 J. Epstein In contrast to Apple’ AppStore, Palm today announced, they will also allow distribution of Palm Pre applications outside of Palm’s App Catalog. The WebOS developer program will officially start in december 2009 for an annual fee of 100US$. The annual fee does not apply for open source applications, as they will be taken into the [...]
Posted in News Tags: App Catalog, App Store, AppCatalog, AppStore, iPhone, Jon Rubinstein, Palm, Palm Pre, Steve Jobs No Comments »[iPhone] Flash coming to iPhone / No Flash Player for Safari
October 6th, 2009 J. Epstein Although Apple still does not allow plugins for their iPhone Safari browser, Adobe will bring Flash on the iPhone using a different strategy. Adobe Flash Professional CS5 will have an export for iPhone apps. Thus allowing games and application built using Flash being compiled natively for the iPhone and being distributed via AppStore. Sadly Adrian [...]
Posted in News Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash Professional, Apple, Browser, Compiler, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Professional CS, Flash Professional CS5, iPhone, MAX 2009, Palm Pre, Plug-In, Plugin, Safari 1 Comment »[Pre] Palm Pre to Ship with Adobe Flash Soon (Upd.)
October 5th, 2009 J. Epstein Adobe released a video yesterday featuring the Palm Pre running Adobe Flash. Adrian Ludwig from Adobe Labs shows websites running with Flash Player 10.1 beta on the semi-official iPhone challenger Palm Pre. In their official press statement Adobe say “A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows® Mobile, [...]
Posted in News Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash 10.1, Adrian Ludwig, Apple, Developer Beta, Flash Support, GPU optimzied, iPhone, Jon Rubinstein, no Flash, Palm, Palm Pre, Public Beta, Steve Jobs, WebOS, webOS 1.1.0, WebOS 1.2.1 2 Comments »[Pre] Marry me again: WebOS 1.2.1 syncs to iTunes 9.01
October 5th, 2009 J. Epstein A couple of days after their latest release of WebOS 1.2 Palm released WebOS 1.2.1. Now the Palm Pre is again synchronizing with Apple’s iTunes 9.0.1. Since iTunes version 8.2.1 with every update Apple is trying to stop Palm from syncing their Pre with iTunes. As we’ve seen in the past, all those attempts by [...]
Posted in News Tags: Hack, idVendor, iPhone, iTunes, Mobile, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Sprint, Sprint Mobile, Sync, Syncronize, usb, WebOS, WebOS 1.2.1 No Comments »[Pre] Palm Pre Hacked to Support Video Recording
September 30th, 2009 J. Epstein PreCentral reports that some devs managed to run a video recording software on Palm’s new flagship Pre. The software currently only supports 320 x 480 as resolution with 30fps. But as the Pre supports up to 720×480 there is hope that we will soon seen DVD like recordings just from the Pre. The video format [...]
Posted in News Tags: 30FPS, 320 x 480, iPhone, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Recording, Video, Video Lan Client, Video Recording, VLC No Comments »