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FlightTrack App Now Available on Palm Pixi (and Palm Pre)
FlightTrack, one of the best mobile flight tracking applications earlier available on Android, iPhone and Blackberry is now available as a webOS app. The app is now available for Palm Pixi and Palm Pre users. The application is developed by Mobiata, a company which specializes in developing some of the most popular mobile travel applications available in the market today
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Palm Offering 50% Discount For Nearly All Apps in webOS App Catalog
There’s good news for all Palm Pre and Palm Pixi owners – Palm has halved the prices of nearly all the apps in the US Palm App Catalog and Palm web channel. The promotion runs from June 18th through July 9th, 2010. As a Palm customer, you are entitled to a cool subsidy of 50% on your favorite webOS applications. If you were thinking of the buying any of the following bestseller apps from Palm – Need for Speed Undercover, Jump O’Clock, or James Cameron’s Avatar, the time is now!
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Ping.fm for webOS: Update all your Social Networks from your Palm Phone
Fed up of having to update each of your social networks one-by-one? Too many passwords to remember? Ping.fm is a cool application which can update all your social networks in one go. All you need to do is configure your social networks with ping.fm and it takes care of syncing all your social networks. The good news is that Ping.fm is now available as a free webOS app in the Palm App Catalog. The app has been developed by Erik C. Thauvin.
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Latest AdMob Report: webOS holds fort
AdMob, a popular Mobile advertising specialist firm has recently released its March, 2010 report on leading mobile operating systems accounting for it’s advertising traffic. The latest report suggest that despite the dwindling fortunes of Palm (now a part of HP), webOS has managed to hold its fort as a popular mobile operating system. The report paints a steady picture for Palm webOS and projects Android as the leading mobile operating system for the future.
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Palm Warns Users Against Overclocking Patches
Palm has officially warned usersto stay away from the overclocking patch that promises to spur Palm Pre’s performance. It is interesting to note that the overclocking patch boosts the Palm Pre’s clock speed from 500 MHz to a whopping 800 MHz. There’s another patch which overclocks the Palm Pre to 720 MHz. Two hackers code named ‘unixpshycho’ and ‘caj2008′ are the authors of these overclocking patches. The patches are believed to work on Palm Pre phones running on webOS 1.4.
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webOS 1.4 Coming This Thursday?
At CES 2010, Palm had offered a sneak peak of what webOS 1.4 would have in store for users – Video Recording, Flash 10 Compatibility, Performance Improvements and some other minor upgrades. Though Palm set the clock ticking for the webOS 1.4 launch, it kept mum on when it would be available to users.
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Palm Pre’s Award Winning 2009
While we like to focus on the Palm Pixi here, it shouldn’t go unnoticed that it’s big brother the Palm Pre is winning all sorts of awards. Let’s review a few of the most notable over the last year.
Best of CES 2009 and People’s Voice Award – The year started off with a bang [...]
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Palm Pre earns Popular Mechanics’ Top 10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009
While it’s not exactly Palm Pixi news, Popular Mechanics has named Palm Pre top it’s Most Brilliant Products of 2009. That accomplishment speaks for itself. However, there’s more to it than that. Only three consumer electronic products made the top ten. So one could say that Popular Mechanics put the Palm [...]
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Palm Pre #2 Smartphone in User Survey
Research firm Interpret released a study recently that gives the Palm Pre a #2 ranking, when compared with Apple iPhone 3G, Apple iPhone 3GS, Google Android G1, Blackberry Storm, Blackberry Curve.
The study found that people cared about phones measuring well in three areas: Smart, Hip/Cool, and Productive. The Palm Pre was the most well-rounded [...]
