The folks at Palm’s are currently running a promotion for all those who managed to get into their ecommerce beta program – if you register ASAP, the first year goes for but 5$ (usually 99$):
In order to take advantage of the promo, log into your Palm Developer account, hit the My Account command and go to account details. Then, ‘go pro’…
A big thank-you to my colleague Simon Pfundstein for pointing this out
Access Co’s Garnet VM offers people who dislike smartphones a PDAesque experience on a Nokia Nxxx web tablet. It has actually done this for some time, and was met with general happiness.
The product has now been updated to “beta 5″ – while still not final, Access claims compatibility with more than 80% of Palm OS applications currently on the market.
More can be found at the URL below:
http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/index.html
P.S. According to various sources, the N900 is not supported currently.
Palm Pixi heads in the USA have reported that their devices have just started to download webOS 1.3.2.
In particular, the change log looks as following:
Version information
* Version: webOS 1.3.2
* Release date: 01 December 2009New applications
NONEFeature changes to existing applications
Phone
* Answering or hanging up calls using a wired headset button now works more reliably.Security
This release addresses several security issues with Palm webOS software.
We would like to thank Chris Clark for his help in identifying some of the issues addressed in this release.
Individuals interested in contacting Palm to report suspected security issues can find more information at palm.com/security .
As of now, the update has not been made available to the Pre…
Palm’s Pixi has been reviewed by various news services in the past. Most of these have little to no Palm OS experience, and praised the device’s keyboard.
The folks at BrightHand’s have a large Palm OS experience, and have ended up with the following – somewhat surprising – verdict:
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After using it for a week I can say that it’s a very good value for the price, but it may not be right for everyone. The keyboard in particular is my least favorite aspect of the device. While it is adequate for basic texting and email, it isn’t really comfortable enough to use for long emails. Aside from that and the barely adequate camera and the relatively low volume for voice calls and the external speaker, the Pixi is a great little device that deserves a closer look — especially if all of your life’s details are already on Google and you’re a lot more interested in calendar, contacts, email, and the mobile web.
It won’t make headlines as the smartphone of the year, but it’s a lot smarter than your average featurephone and very easy to use. It won’t work for heavy duty corporate types who live and breathe Word and Excel, and are always needing to update their presentations, but it is a good choice for your average (relatively tech-savvy) consumer
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Don’t ask me why Engadget praised the keyboard – I personally trust BrightHand’s reviewer more. Feedback from one of you, maybe?
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