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- Palm Pre to get its own “App Catalog”Today
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With the Palm Pre rocking a brand spankin’ new OS and an entirely new development platform, it was pretty foreseeable that Palm would eventually announce plans for a central application store. Apple’s doing it, Google’s doing it, RIM is doing it - if you don’t have an App Store of your own, you’ve got nothing.
Sure enough, Palm has gone ahead and announced to their development network that an on-device application catalog is in the works. Of course, they already have an on-device app store of sorts for other Palm handsets, but we’re going make the assumption that this one will be an actual native application, a la the App Store or Android Market, rather than what is little more than a link to a website. Then again, with the webOS Mojo Framework being fueled by HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, we’re not quite sure what to expect.
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- Devastating rumor puts Sprint’s Palm Pre at $399 at launchToday
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What’s the quickest way to kill any momentum you might have built up in the past 24 hours, Palm? How about pricing the Pre at $399, as this rumor currently zipping around the Internet suggests?
A Russian, who is apparently Mr. Credible for having reported on the death of the RAZR 3, says that Palm will price the Pre at $399 when it launches on Sprint in a few months. That’s $100 $200 more than the 8GB iPhone 3G (and the same price $100 more than the 16GB iPhone 3G).
Palm would be wise not to price the Pre out of the reach of the average consumer, especially with so many of them now watching the family budget so closely.
via Electronista
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- Palm Pre Hands On: The MovieToday
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Here it is, folks - our video of the Palm Pre in its factory-made flesh, mere inches away from our lens. We intended for this to go live at the same time as our primary hands on, but the winds just wouldn’t blow in our favor. We shot the video, brought it back for editing.. and then things broke, USB drives were lost, and the video was 1 minute too long for YouTube (which we found out after roughly half an hour of uploading). But we shot 11 minutes of Pre footage, and darn it, we’re going to put it up. Enjoy.
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- Thin is in: Skype lite (beta) launches for Android, 100+ Java-enabled phonesToday
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Skype announced today that it has released a new “thin” client - Skype lite (beta) - available for Android-powered devices and over 100 other Java-enabled handsets from the likes of Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG. The launch of Skype lite also marks the first time a mobile version of the app is available for use in the US.
According to the official Skype lite site, the beta app’s major features include:
- Local rate calls to your Skype contacts wherever they are.
- Call on Skype wherever you are - no WiFi or 3G required.
- Instant message from your mobile.
- Save on international and long distance calls to phones and mobiles.
For an official list of Java-enabled, (currently) supported devices, head on over to the S
- Slacker for iPhone coming “as soon as tomorrow”Yesterday
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Hungry for some Slacker streaming radio on your iPhone? The BlackBerry app just became available earlier today, and it looks like they’re already prepped to go live on Apple’s finest. We ran into a Slacker rep tonight at the ShowStoppers CES event, said some magic words, and were presented with Slacker for iPhone in all of its glory - and we’ve got the screenshots to prove it.
According to the rep, the iPhone Slacker app could be on the App Store “as soon as tomorrow” - which could just as well mean months from now. As we’re now quite accustomed to hearing, the ball is essentially in Apple’s court; once they give it the greenlight, it’ll go live. It won’t feature the battery-saving song caching that the BlackBerry app has claimed as an exclusive, but it’ll have at least one feature exclusive temporarily: “Fine tuning”. Once you’ve got your streams set up, you can tell the application to adjust the stream based off of your favorites, the song’s popularity, and how recently the song was released