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iPhone Games Can be Ported to Palm webOS PDK in “Days”? — The Competition

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It seems like Palm’s new webOS PDK (plug-in development kit) can be used to port over iPhone games in a matter of days — or even hours. Given how fast some iPhone games have turned up on the Palm Pre we’ve kind of suspect there was a little something something going on behind the screen, [...]

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Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, webOS Review from an iPhone Perspective — Smartphone Round Robin

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My first smartphone was a Palm Treo 600 and so my last 2009 Smartphone Round Robin “away” review focusing on Palm’s new webOS platform as embodied by the Palm Pre and Palm Pix does not lack for symmetry. Between the two, last year I reviewed the Palm Treo Pro which I quipped was more HTC [...]

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Palm Pre, Palm Pixi webOS Hands-on Video — Smartphone Round Robin

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When last I left Palm they had but the Centro and some HTC Windows Mobile device to offer, now webOS and the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi’s inform Week 6 of the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin. Talk about night and day. Lucky I have the daywalker himself, our illustrious editor-in-chief and PreCentral.net’s own Dieter Bohn [...]

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iPhone Hands-on from a webOS User’s Perspective — Smartphone Round Robin

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So the suspiciously familiar Dieter Bohn of PreCentral.net got a guided tour (check out the video) from yours truly to catch him up on all things iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3.0 , and he shared his preliminary thoughts on Monday (same link). Of course, there was only so much help I could give him, so [...]

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iPhone vs. Palm Pre

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Trying to decide between an Apple iPhone and a Palm Pre? TiPb’s got you covered. Check out the links below for our comprehensive reviews and ongoing coverage of the Palm Pre and how it compares and contrasts with the iPhone.

iPhone vs. Palm Pre: Which one should you buy? iPhone 3GS hardware review iPhone 3.1 software walkthrough PreCentral.net Palm [...]

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Apple Was Going to Use Palm WebOS-style Widgets for iPhone in 2007, Abandoned Idea Due to Performance

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As part of the commentary on Jamie Zawinski leaving the Palm Pre for the iPhone (linked in the previous post), Daring Fireball adds:

Apple had a similar idea to WebOS for the iPhone, where certain apps would run as Dashboard-style widgets, written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Apple abandoned the idea in the six [...]

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Acceleroto on Developing Air Hockey for the iPhone vs. Palm Pre

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Acceleroto, makers of the iPhone apps Air Hockey [$0.99 - iTunes link] and Air Hockey Free [Free - iTunes link] have written an interesting post on the differences between developing their app for the iPhone App Store vs. the Palm Pre App Catalog. Some take away:

They charge more for the webOS version due to lower [...]

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UPDATED: Palm webOS 1.2.1 Re-Hacks iTunes 9 Sync

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UPDATE 2: Apple comments to Digital Daily:

“As we’ve said before, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with unsupported digital media players.”

UPDATE 1: PreCentral.net is back with the low-down on how Palm re-enabled iTunes sync in webOS 1.2.1:

by setting its Manufacturer to Apple and also perhaps [...]

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O2 UK: We Still Have iPhone… and Palm Pre!

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Pop-quiz: You’re O2 and you just lost iPhone exclusivity in the UK, and now have to compete with both Orange and Vodafone for users’ iPounds. What do you do? Why, tell them you still have the iPhone… and are getting the Palm Pre?!

We’re proud that we’ve been able to offer an exclusive iPhone [...]

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Palm NOT Re-hacking iTunes Sync, but ARE Alienating Developers?

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According to PreCentral.net, the upcoming Palm webOS 1.2 update will NOT be re-hacking iTunes 9 sync. In other words, the cat and mouse game between Apple and Palm may soon be missing it’s mouse. We’d heard Palm was in this for the long haul, even though we thought it was more ego than good sense, [...]

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