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20:55 June 13th, 2009

Homebrew Pre firmware just a button, cable away?

Posted By: wraggster

If you were to put the Pre on a scale of hacker friendliness from 1 to 10, where 1 is the iPhone (remember how long it took for the first jailbreaks back in the day?) and 10 is, say, OpenMoko, we're starting to get the impression that Palm's latest effort falls somewhere way past the 5 mark. We got out first hint that they're being good sports about letting developers play with the Konami code access to developer mode, and now we've got news that it's easy -- nay, trivial -- to run whatever firmware you'd like on the phone. It seems all you've got to do is hold down the volume up key when connecting the Pre to your computer via USB, then you can flash the phone 'til you're blue in the face; even better, the enterprising dev who found the trick says that it's mega simple to modify the stock build and he'd wiped out the activation check with minimal effort. This can only be good news for tweakers and anyone wanting to walk off the App Catalog's beaten path, and if this ultimately means we're a few solid steps closer to a Pre running WinMo 6.1, sign us up. Way up.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/h...on-cable-away/

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17:13 June 12th, 2009

Palm Pre runs Doom, smartphone-loving space marines rejoice

Posted By: wraggster

If you were holding off on buying a Pre until it had some great games, start warming up that credit card. We knew homebrewers were already at work and one of those, a bloke who goes by the name Sargun, has managed to get the iconic Doom running on the phone -- or the open-source PRDoom, anyway, which is close enough for us. Sargun re-built the game to use the DirectFB graphics library to pipe all the two-barreled action to the Pre's framebuffer, and said getting the whole thing up and running was "actually fairly trivial." Your mileage may vary depending on your compiler skills, but with any luck someone will host up some binaries to save us all the trouble

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/p...rines-rejoyce/

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19:20 June 10th, 2009

WebOS homebrewers say 'Hello World!' to Palm Pre

Posted By: wraggster

It's begun. Although lacking a general release of the SDK, the first homebrew apps have emerged thanks to last night's leaked WebOS root image. The first application puts a stake in the ground by displaying a simple "hello world" on the screen. Unfortunately, the code overwrote the pre-installed Sprint Nascar application... oh wait, that's probably a good thing. Devs have also started tampering with existing code to disable the shutter sound on the camera while leaving the rest of the sounds enabled. Now why would somebody want to do that?

Update: New image from an excited developer that shows scm6079's work over at PreCentral evolving with a 5-second photo timer and more. We're being told that several members of the Pre hacking team consist of old-school PalmOS hackers from the Samsung i300 days. Now if Palm can just lure back the rest of its developers smitten by Android and the lure of App Store riches then they might just make something of this fledgling smartphone platform.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/w...d-to-palm-pre/

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17:14 June 9th, 2009

Pre concerns hit Palm shares

Posted By: wraggster

Despite not yet having a UK release date, the Palm Pre yesterday made its debut in the North American market. And whilst the hype, queues and sales are all good news for Palm, the fallout that is now descending is not.
Reuters reports that Palm shares closed down six per cent on Monday trading (having at one point been 11.8 per cent down), due to supply and demand concerns for its Pre handset.
Though Sprint said it experienced record sales when it began offering the Pre on June 6th, the article points to at least one analyst who reckons Palm only managed to ship 50,000 units prior to launch compared to earlier estimates of 100,000 units.

All eyes will be on Palm now that Apple has unveiled its iPhone 3GS, which goes on sale June 19th. Nokia's much anticipated N97 goes on sale the same day.

http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/287...it-Palm-shares

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17:32 June 8th, 2009

Moron Smashes His iPhone Because of His Palm Pre

Posted By: wraggster

A guy named John has changed his first generation iPhone for a new Palm Pre. Nothing bad or weird about that. Until he took a steel hammer out of his toolbox:

Then—for some unknown reason—he smashed his iPhone with it.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5282391/moron-s...f-his-palm-pre

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17:04 June 8th, 2009

Palm moves 50,000 Pre smartphones in opening weekend

Posted By: wraggster

We've yet to see Palm or Sprint confirm these numbers, but a quote from JPMorgan found in a Wall Street Journal roundup this morning asserts that "sales [of the Pre] in the first two days probably exceeded 50,000." The report continues by mentioning that said figure was "aligned with expectations, but probably fell short of the 146,000 reported first-gen iPhone sales" during its opening weekend due to "capacity constraints in manufacturing." By and large, most analysts are deeming the Pre launch a success, though it's hard to say whether the suits at Palm and Sprint agree or disagree. No matter how you slice it, 50,000 units in a single weekend ain't nothing to scoff at, but we'd say next weekend's sales could be even more telling. You know, if anything goes down today at 1:00PM ET.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/p...ening-weekend/

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21:22 June 5th, 2009

Confirmed: Palm Pre's iTunes support is very, very hacky

Posted By: wraggster

Careful analysis of a Pre's identity to its host system when connected via USB has now confirmed what's been suspected for a few days now -- the way it hooks to iTunes is very shady indeed. Turns out that the Pre identifies itself as an iPod when it's in Media Sync mode, but only on the system's mass storage interface; the root USB node still comes through as a Palm Pre, which Apple could easily tease out and block if it so chose. We're still up in the air on whether Cupertino would actively move to do that, but regardless, you've got to give a tip of the ol' hacker hat to Palm for its wild ways on this one.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/04/c...ry-very-hacky/

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16:18 May 28th, 2009

Palm Pre said to sync up nicely with Apple's iTunes

Posted By: wraggster

There's been no direct confirmation just yet, but Fortune has it that Palm's hotly anticipated Pre actually syncs with iTunes. Yeah, iTunes. According to the report, the Pre works "seamlessly" with iTunes on a Mac, with the only notable limitation being that it can't handle older DRM-laced files from the sad, sad days of our past. Even wilder, we're told that the iTunes Store "treats the Pre just as it would an iPod or an iPhone" save for the aforesaid exception, which leads us to wonder how Apple will react. There's little doubt that this factoid sweetens the Pre value proposition for diligent Mac users, but is this functionality kosher with the software's creator? We already saw Tim Cook glance sternly at Palm while uttering that if anyone else "ripped off its intellectual property, it would go after them," and we highly doubt he plans on backing down if push comes to shove. If true, this could definitely trigger an interesting chain of events -- we'll know soon enough, now won't we?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/28/p...apples-itunes/

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10:40 May 26th, 2009

Plethora of Palm Pre interface videos emerge from leaked emulator

Posted By: wraggster

Palm Pre secrets? That's very quickly becoming a thing of the past. After getting some pretty good shots of webOS last week, the "invisible man" from PalmPreForum.org has uploaded an absolute ton of videos -- fifteen in all, at last count -- showcasing the interface from a leaked emulator given out to early developers (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, in case you were wondering). Browser, tasks, memos, YouTube, Google Maps, backup, settings, copy and paste -- frankly, we're still wrapping our heads around all of them, and while it's a shame we can't see any multitouch gesture since he's limited to a mouseclick, we're not gonna be choosy here. Clear your afternoon schedule and check out the video playlist we've embedded after the break -- and not to worry, the audio clears up right around the 9th video.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/24/p...eaked-emulato/

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Homebrew Pre firmware just a button, cable away?

Palm Pre runs Doom, smartphone-loving space marines rejoice

WebOS homebrewers say 'Hello World!' to Palm Pre

Pre concerns hit Palm shares

Moron Smashes His iPhone Because of His Palm Pre

Palm moves 50,000 Pre smartphones in opening weekend

Confirmed: Palm Pre's iTunes support is very, very hacky

Palm Pre said to sync up nicely with Apple's iTunes

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