AT&T’s still rolling with Palm, eventually, along with Android. Is that what Palm’s announcing tomorrow? AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega says they’re going to have two webOS phones—revamped Pre and Pixi?
Whoa — Ralph de la Vega just announced that AT&T will have not one but two webOS devices in the first half of 2010! And… that’s all we have for now, but you know we’re digging for more. Stay tuned, friends. Stay tuned.
Ralph de la Vega: AT&T launching two webOS devices! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Yeah, yeah — we’ve seen a fairly weak effort to ape the Pre before, but this… this is the knockoff webOS device your shady side has been waiting for. A dead ringer for the Palm Pre, the Cool K07 boasts a luscious 2.8-inch touchscreen (320 x 240 resolution), a T-Flash card slot, a 2 megapixel camera, inbuilt speaker, MP3 / MP4 player, a blazing fast connection to the web (GPRS, if you must know), Bluetooth, an FM radio tuner, alarm clock, a few games and room for 1,000 contacts. Granted, there’s none of that fancy “Synergy” stuff, and we’re guessing you won’t find any “cards” or “multitasking” here, but for $128 unlocked and room for the SIM card of your choice, how on Earth could you complain? Exactly. You can’t. Or maybe that’s just stunned silence we hear…
[Thanks, Dechris]
Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXLIX: Cool K07 is the ultimate facePalm originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Okay, so this is quite the lag from October’s North American availability, but at least when the paid portion of Palm’s App Catalog rolls out across Europe it shouldn’t experience the stuttering start it suffered back in the US of A. Palm has excitedly blurted out the news on its developer network blog, but not without the requisite garnishings of buzzwords like “leverage,” “freedom,” “choice,” “control,” and “speed,” as well as something about “faster cycle times” — all of it designed to get more developers onboard. Kinda ironic the company is boasting about fast cycle times when it can’t transition its paid Catalog to Europe in less than six months, but hey — the Pre already has that one killer app, and it’s free, so what do you care?
[Thanks, Ben]
webOS paid apps coming to Europe in March 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You know what’s in just over a month? We’ll tell you: Valentine’s Day. You know what’s coming up this Thursday? Something “new” from Palm. Now, we won’t go so far as to say that a pink Palm Pixi is definitely in the cards for a CES unveiling, but a pink Palm Pixi is most definitely showing up in Sprint’s internal systems (according to this graphic, anyway). So, what say you, readers — is a new hue of webOS just around the bend, or are we just lovestruck?
[Thanks, Anonymous]
Pink Palm Pixi spotted on Sprint system, Cupid is like ‘boomshakalaka’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Just to clarify right out of the gate, the “year” Fast Company is referring to is 2009, but nonetheless, it’s an award we’re sure Jon is happy to have. 11 geeks were found worthy of the “Geek of the Year” award in ’09, with the likes of Evan Williams and Biz Stone (Twitter), David S. Goyer (the creator of Flash Forward on ABC), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Neill Blomkamp (the writer of District 9) joining him. The justification for Jon making the cut?
“He came on board as the new chairman of Palm and brought about the Web OS and the Palm Pre, the start of a line of products that is the best hope for reintroducing the geek masses to Palm.”
After speaking with him on our first-ever Engadget Show and falling head over heels in love with webOS, we can’t help but agree. And yes, after last year’s introduction at CES, it’s all we can do to contain our excitement for this Thursday.
Palm’s Jon Rubinstein named a ‘Geek of the Year’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Yeah, hardware accelerating Doom is an important milestone in any fledgling system’s career, but when you talk 3D acceleration, Quake is certainly a giant leap ahead of Doom in polygonal terms. The game has now been ported to webOS using the same new SDL library from version 1.3.5, and while it looks a little sluggish and crashy in the video after the break, it’s clearly a landmark event just the same. Now if only we could get stuff like this in the App Catalog we’d be perfectly happy forever and ever. Or for at least a week.
Continue reading Quake ported to the Pre, webOS 3D gaming truly within reach
Quake ported to the Pre, webOS 3D gaming truly within reach originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Palm’s second-ever webOS device wasn’t exactly worthy of its initial $99 (on contract) price, but considering that it’s darn near free in many instances these days, many of our gripes have less relevance today. Still, the Pixi is up against some seriously stiff competition these days, and it’s not enough to simply shove the Pre in a different form factor and call it a day. To that end, we’re wondering what you’d do differently if you had the keys to the Pixi design lab. Would you tweak the display? Is the keyboard in need of an overhaul? Would you shove a WiFi module in there somehow? Produce a version for AT&T? What else would you re-engineer if given the chance? Holler down in comments below, and we’ll be sure to FedEx the final list to Mr. Rubinstein.
How would you change Palm’s Pixi? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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For those viewing this on a Palm device, here’s your direct link: Download Engadget for webOS
Engadget now available for Pre and Pixi: the first webOS app of 2010 (and 1000th in the Catalog)! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Pre homebrew has certainly come a long way in its short but happy life — and now it’s just gotten another little notch in its belt. Apparently, with the release of webOS 1.3.5, Palm has included a software library called SDL (or Simple Directmedia Layer) which allows developers low-level hardware access — like the kind needed to tap into accelerated 3D graphics. With a little bit of elbow grease, webOS hacker extraordinaire zsoc was able to put together a port of Doom which can be run within a card in the OS, and completely functions (including keyboard controls). You’ve got to get your hands a little dirty with the Terminal app to make things happen right now if you want to try it for yourself, though the experimenters promise an easier solution in the coming days. Exciting stuff for webOS users hungry for a little more horsepower… now let’s see if Palm puts this into play come CES.
Update: PreCentral has a video of the app in action — check it out after the break!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Hardware accelerated ‘Doom’ comes to the Pre originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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