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…
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 developer mode and an installed Preware installer.
Both steps are easy as saying “1, 2, Pre”…
The Incomplete Preware Packages List
Done and happy? Ok then, here we go:
| Package | Description | PreWare Folder |
| Battery Saver | Turns on airplane mode each night at a defined time | Application |
| Brightness Unlinked | Brightness of Keyboard and Brightness of Screen can now separately be adjusted | Applications |
| MyTether | Turns your Pre into a WiFi to 3G router. Extremely helpful on vacation. | Not on PreWare, get here only… |
| Terminal | Allows Accessing the Linux Terminal from within the Pre | Applications |
| 4×4 icons v4 No Arrows Plus More | 4 Icons on Launcher Screen per line | Patch |
| Ad Blocker | Being on GRPS/Edge sometimes, you definitely don’t want to spend bandwidth on ads | Patch |
| Capture with Volume Keys | Shoot Images with the Volume Keys | Patch |
| Confirm Delete | Confirm Deleting an Email | Patch |
| Fullscreen Mode Browser | No Urlbar, No Application Frame, No Notification when scrolled down. Extends the browser to the full screen size | Patch |
| Reduce Minimum Brightness | Changes Minimum from 10 to 0 | Patch |
| Fullscreen Mode Browser | No Urlbar, No Application Frame, No Notification when scrolled down. Extends the browser to the full screen size | Patch |
| Send All Contacts via Email | Creates a vCard containing ALL contacts and attaches it to an Email | Patch |
Shouts fly out to the WebOS-Internals team and the guys at the Precentral Forums. That’s awesome work you’re doing.
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 is warning: overclocking may result in cut down lifetime and reduced battery runtime. It may also void your warranty. Unixpsycho and caj2008 had a team of 40 betatesters.
PreCentral reports:
unixpsycho and caj2008 have determined that they believe this overclocking method doesn’t result in excess heat. Caj tells us that heat problems actually can happen at any CPU frequency and that one especially hot time is when a Pre downloads massive 3D games after a wipe.
Links:
» PreCentral.net: Overclocking: 720 & 800 MHz Custom Kernels for webOS 1.4…
» PreCentral Forums: Optimized WebOS 1.4 Kernel / Easy Install for Pre phones…
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.
Kudos to caj2008 and unixpsycho.
via PreCentral…
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 create new and astonishing games for the Palm webOS platform.
Together with Palm’s Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) it will soon become very easy for developers to port visually appealing games to the webOS platform.
» Palm: Palm webOS games get Unreal…
» Palm: Plug-in Development Kit…
» Epic: Free Download Unreal Engine 3…
[Update] Engadget got a vid:
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 GDC…
» AllThingsD.com: Palm’s PDK to Allow Easy Porting of iPhone Apps…
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 offer for:
is for german customers only. Sorry guys from whereever you are.
New features
WebOS comes with some minor ;-) feature additions:
Find a lot more about the Pre’s latest update in this article on Golem.de (click here for autotranslated version).
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:
On the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Adobe released Flash 10.1 beta. This non public release aims at developers to allow them to make final changes to their Flash based websites to make them compatible to mobile devices.
Currently some Flash based applications are not adjusted to mobile devices. So touching buttons on small displays is not working best. Adobe recommends Flash content providers to adjust their products for mobile devices.
Adobe Flash 10.1 is coming to Google’s Android, Symbian OS, Palm’s WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. A final version will be finished in mid 2010.
Adrian Ludwig of Adobe says, technically the Flash platform could easily be enrolled to the iPhone, but Apple’s license policies does not allow that at the moment. Moreover he says In december 2010 more than 7million iPhone and iPod Touch users tried to browse to Adobe’s Flash installer website to find out it is not available for that device.
The video and advertisement is courtesy of Golem.de…
The video and advertisement is courtesy of Golem.de aswell…
1. Soft Reboot
Orange Key + Sym Key + R2. Make Screenshot
Orange Key + Sym Key + P3. Num Lock
Orange Key4. Caps Lock
Shift Key5. Highlight Text
Shift Key and mark text on screen6. Copy Text to Clipboard
C Keyon keyboard to copy7. Cut Text to Clipboard
X Key on keyboard to cut8. Paste Text from Clipboard
V Key on keyboard to paste