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On Monday, Palm set free its lastest WebOS update for the Palm Pre, bringing quite a number of new features to the smartphone and addresses several security issues.
If you haven't received it already, Palm WebOS 1.2 will arrive as an over-the-air update to your smartphone over the next few days. Notable additions include the integration of LinkedIn contacts, the capability to download songs from the Amazon MP3 Store over a 3G connection in addition to Wi-Fi, and cut and paste for Web pages and e-mails.
Other highlights include being able to search within e-mail folders, download files from the Web browser, and the capability to pause podcasts. We're still awaiting the arrival of prepaid apps, but it looks we're getting closer since you can now store credit card information on your Palm profile so you can purchase apps in the future.
For a full list of included updates with Palm WebOS 1.2, check out Palm's support site. Most notably absent from this update, however, is any mention of a fix to the iTunes synchronization, which was broken by iTunes 9.0. We're still waiting for the WebOS 1.2 to arrive on our Palm Pre, but let us know if the media syncing is still truly disabled and share your experience with the update in the comments below.
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For some other phones - it took years to do this - even though phones previously could do it easily.
haha you're right, compared to some other phones it's amazing palm didn't save these updates until the next version of the pre comes out in 9 months and then advertise them as full blown features using a guy in a black turtleneck and classy minimalist commercials
Ahahahaha as if you believe Sprint could handle the massive amounts of data iPhone users are using. Since the iPhone is about 1000X intuitive that the other crap phones, data use has grown beyond anyones capacity. Think before you post.
"Since the iPhone is about 1000X intuitive that the other crap phones."
Opinionz, think beofre you proast.
Besides, when you get right down to it, you're not defending Apple, you're defending AT&T.
Really? *Really?*
I seriously hope that is sarcasm, if you honestly believe ATT has a stronger network than Sprint, you better stop drinking that fart-water. Sprints and Verizons networks have massive amounts of bandwidth. Sprint alone have over 100MIL customers using their data cards, which they use with laptops. let me guess!... The iphone pulls more data than a laptop... LOL!!!
At any given day? Yes. ahahahaha... iPhone is used more often using data by any laptop using a card. Silly.
Please stop, I seriously hope you're joking around, one cannot be that delusional.
Sounds like your the one with the tight end problem. Music management application. There that should help your rudimentary reasoning.
Dont be like Apple and try pinch and squeeze every penny for anything that touches their pathetic iphone!
Synergy alone is worth the price of admission.
Now if "Rubi" would get together with Nokia to produce the hardware , it would be so much better.
Apple is stuck in the 90`s requiring plugging into a computer and using the horrible iTunes.
Palm also provides a free OTA phone restore system as well as remote wipe capability.
yes, the WebOS will be far better than the iPhone OS. Seriously, who cares how many apps are available???
Besides, how many phones are going to have the Apple OS on in the future? Just one from what I understand (the iPhone). Well, there are currently two phones that are planned to have the WebOS--currently, the Pre and the Pixi which will debut later this year. And I'm sure there will be more phones in the coming decade. All the while, mind you, that the Pre is debuting in multiple countries as well. And with the Pre comes the WebOS.
Video recording
Flash Support
Forwarding of Messages
3D capable games
A music/video/photo software that will work like iTunes
These are all software updates that can be applied and easily handled by the hardware on the device. I know for sure they are working on flash... but what's taking so long? The HTC Hero coming out will have flash support, video recording, AND forwarding. Are they already behind?
Don't get me wrong, I love webOS, and I would never trade it for any Android phone or iPhone... but 100% of all major smart-phones now have video recording, and most have forwarding. Flash support is also widely supported.
iPhone > Pre
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by Brent212
September 29, 2009 1:29 PM PDT
- Is it possible to copy files to the Pre with a file browser (like windows explorer)?
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (53 Comments)I know a lot of people are clueless about how horrible itunes is, but if people are really bummed that they can't use it, then whatever software palm's provided as an alternative must be incredibly bad.