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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[Pre] Recommended Apps: Reboot Scheduler
February 15th, 2010 
J. Epstein 
Posted in Labs, News, Pre 
Tags: app, App Catalogue, apps, AppStore, Home Brew, Homebrew, Palm, Palm Pixi, Palm Pre, PalmPre, Pixi, Pre, Pre Central, PreCentral, PreCentral.net, Recommended, Recommended-Apps 
No Comments »[Pre] Palm Pre’s Slider Oreo Issues
January 31st, 2010 J. Epstein Forum reports seem to be growing about this issue. A certain amount of first generation Palm Pre’s being sold all over the world seem to have slider issues. “It just wobbles too much, thus making it feel like a 500€ plastic toy.”, said a customer in a local O2 store. Our testing device received from [...]
[Pre] Enable Developer Mode
January 26th, 2010 J. Epstein 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 [...]
[Pre] WebOS 1.3.5.2 Released in Europe
January 12th, 2010 J. Epstein 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 [...]
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 »[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] Video Recording with Precorder 0.2 Alpha
November 24th, 2009 H. Frahm The long waiting is over. A team around the Precentral’s forum member Prenosicator has released an alpha version of a Palm Pre video recording application. It requires WebOS 1.3.1. You will not find it in the know homebrew repositories as long as it is in alpha status. Anyway for all of you able to root [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Pre Tags: 0.2, 3GS, Alpha, app, App Catalog, application, apps, beta, Cycorder, Dev Team, Homebrew, Installation, iPhone, Palm, Pre, Precorder, Prenosicator, Preware, Recording, Video, Video Recording No 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] Palm Developer Early Access Program
November 13th, 2009 H. Frahm Selected developers who recently downloaded the Palm Mojo SDK now received mail that Palm has some open positions for their Early Access Program. Developers need to apply with their app. If being accepted they will be provided an assigned Palm account manager for technical and review questions. As early birds devs will get the developer [...]
Posted in News Tags: app, App Catalog, App Store, AppCatalog, AppStore, Catalog, Catalogue, cheap, Developer, Developer Marketing, Early Access Program, early bird, Free, Marketing, Mojo, Palm, Rebate, Registration, Rubinstein, SDK 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] 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 »[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 »[Pre] Merry Me again: Update Reunites Palm Pre with iTunes
July 24th, 2009 J. Epstein The “little Palm Apple battle” goes into its next round. A week ago Apple released iTunes 8.2.1. This update blocked Palm Pre users from synchronizing music and movies with iTunes. We reported about this update and the technical implications of the sync feature here. Palm has now released a firmware update (webOS 1.1.0) for the [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Battle, bug, error, Hack, issue, issues, iTunes, iTunes 8.2.1, Jon Lech Johansen, Palm, Palm Pre, Problem, Reenable, Sync, update, usb, webOS 1.1.0, Workaround No Comments »[News] Apple Bar Palm Pre from Syncing with iTunes
July 22nd, 2009 J. Epstein With the latest update of iTunes 8.2.1 Apple eventually blocks Palm Pre users from syncing with iTunes. It seems Palm knew very carefully how to emulate the iPod verification protocol of iTunes. How comes? Some major Palm Guys are former major Apple Guys One could ask Palm’s CEO Jon Rubinstein, or Palm’s SVP of Product [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, bug, DVD Jon, iPhone, issue, iTunes, John Lech Johansen, Palm, Palm Pre, Sync, Synchronizing, update 1 Comment »[News] Steve Jobs back in Business
July 1st, 2009 J. Epstein We’re almost sure, you read it already all over the net: Steve Jobs is back in his office. Rumors say he was transplanted a liver about two months ago and he is in good health condition. Our comment Does all these news affect anything? Currently it seems no. Apple’s presentations can also be run by [...]
Posted in News Tags: 10.6, 2009, Apple, iPhone 3GS2, iPhone OS 3.0, Jon Rubinstein, leopard, Mac Book Super Pro, Palm, Palm Pre, Scott Forstall, Snow Leopard, Steve Jobs, WWDC, WWDC 2009, WWDC comprehension No Comments »