Walmart Hacks the Palm Pixi's Price Down to Size: $30 at Launch

Posted By: wraggster

It looks like retailers are going to have to do what Palm won't: Make the Palm Pixi genuinely cheap, or at least cheaper than the Pre. For example! Walmart's already cut the Pixi's price from $100 to $30—pre-launch.

http://gizmodo.com/5403353/walmart-h...e-30-at-launch

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Modern Warfare 2 – Trailer

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Neoflash Announce Neo Slim 3000 - New Homebrew Console ?

Posted By: wraggster

Our pals over at Neoflash, Tonight announced a new console coming soon called the Neo Slim 3000

Heres a photo:



Info post so far:

some info about the Game MP5 - Neo Slim 3000:
more info: http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index....ic,5826.0.html

Screen: 320*240 pix matrix true color 3.5-inch TFT display
Digital recorder:Voice recording and supports MP3/WAV formats
FM Radio: Worldwide FM band support, from 76.0MHz~108.0MHz, support manual/auto channel scanning, support
FM recording/playing multi-task. User can save up to 40 channels.
Image: Image browsing format includes JPG, BMP GIF, PNG, with zoom, rotate and image slide show function.
E-book: E-book reader to support multi-task
Video: Support RM/RMVB/ASF/AVI/MP4/FLV format and so on, up to 34 kinds of video playback directly,
not need convert
Music: MP3/WMA/OGG/APE/FLAC/WAV format music playback directly, not need convert ,synchronous lyrics display
function, multiple EQ options,3D virtual sound field, surround sound effect and play mode options, support multi-task.
Game: Support FC/MD/SFC/GBA Format 8bit/16bit/32bit games.
Memory: Built in 2GByte, and support SD/Mini SD/TF memory card.
Data translate: USB2.0 high speed, support WIN2000/XP/VISTA/WIN7/MAC Operation System.
Power: Built in rechargeable Li-Ion battery, support long-time running capability

So from what we can see it already supports Nes, Snes, Megadrive and GBA, cant wait to see the build quality and how much power is under the bonnet and at what speed the emulators perform at.

Another interesting console for Homebrew and emulation fans.

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Palm demos web-based Ares SDK for webOS

Posted By: wraggster

Currently, mobile entrepreneurs wishing to hawk their wares on the Pre (or Pixi, or unnamed webOS device of the future) use a software development kit from Palm called Mojo, a stack of Java-based tools that must be installed, studied, understood, loved, and respected before serious development can get underway. Palm sees that as a barrier of entry for web-oriented developers who want to make the leap to mobile apps, though, which is why they've crafted a new SDK called Ares that's based entirely on web technologies -- in fact, there's no install at all, apparently. Much of the interface is said to be drag-and-drop with enough JavaScript exposed to make your local .com designer feel right at home, potentially opening the app landscape to a whole new set of folks -- and considering that the App Catalog is tens of thousands of goodies behind the App Store and Android Market, they can use every loyal dev they get.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/05/p...sdk-for-webos/

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GSM Palm Pre unlocked with a little Rebel assistance

Posted By: wraggster

It's not exactly the native unlock we've been waiting for, but those of you in Europe dying for a Pre unshackled from O2 will be happy to know that the Rebel Simcard II is now compatible with Palm's first webOS device. The £10.99 / $17.95 accessory card slots in between your carrier's SIM and the Pre's SIM slot, bypassing the Pre's network locks and allowing full access to voice and data services including 3G. Sadly, the Pre doesn't have the radio support to make this work in the States on anything but EDGE, but at least it's a start, right? Video after the break.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/g...el-assistance/

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Palm: webOS speed fix in the 'immediate future'

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Palm device owners have little to complain about when it comes to webOS; not after enduring Garnet and empty Access promises for so long. Still, that OS which relies so heavily upon web technologies like HTML 5, JavaScript, and CSS can be surprisingly sluggish when compared to other smartphone OSes. Now we have a hint as to why thanks to Palm's Ben Galbraith and Dion Almae who made an interesting admission Tuesday related to the Pre's UI latency compared to the iPhone 3GS -- a phone based on the same ARM architecture. According to the duo, "the path to the GPU didn't exist" in webOS, something that will be solved in the "immediate future" using CSS transforms to modify visual elements thus freeing-up CPU cycles for other tasks. Hmm, immediate future sure sounds like a webOS update to accompany the Palm Pixi release on November 15th.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/p...ediate-future/

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DCEmu Server Update - Also Nintendomax New DCEmu Affiliate

Posted By: wraggster

Hi all sometime this weekend we will be moving to a much faster server with more ram 4 quad speed cpus and other stuff thats over my head so the future of the site looks a lot better, also Martin let me know that he should also be upgrading Vbulletin to the very latest stable version which should mean many new features and hopefully a lot of the bugs will go. The faster server should also mean the site loads a lot better too.

Im sure you will know if you have entered by any of the network sites that theres lots of errors on the pages, these will be fixed once the server is totally migrated.

Finally once i get a chance to add them, id like to say welcome to Nintendomax our newest affiliate, for those who dont know Nintendomax is an excellent French Homebrew and Hacking site that focuses on Nintendo Consoles, check them out here --> http://www.nintendomax.com/

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Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?

Posted By: wraggster

Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn't -- but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new model, as PreCentral observes. What remains to be seen is the exact version number that'll be shipping out of the gate -- recent DSLReports user agent logs suggest that 1.2.9 might be the gold build (for the record, the Sprint Pre currently rocks 1.2.1), but apparently there's some chatter going on about a 1.3 as well. Doesn't seem like much of a difference, but a 0.1 increment usually means more features, fixes, and changes than a 0.01 increment does, so naturally, we're pulling for a bigger number. There isn't any intel on what this mythical 1.3 might contain just yet or whether it'd be heading to Bell, Sprint, and O2 Pres, but we'll keep an eye out.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/31/p...sion-but-whic/

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DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway: Ends today!

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DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway ends today! If you have not entered yet, what are you waiting for? Do it now

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iTunes update squashes Palm Pre syncing. Again.

Posted By: wraggster

Apple has rolled out the latest update to its iTunes desktop software, 9.0.2, and once again, it's disabled the ability of Palm's Pre smartphone to sync music with the application.
It's the latest round of a cat'n'mouse war between Apple and Palm, which started when the Pre launched with the promise that it could sync up with users' iTunes music libraries.
Apple has since disabled the feature twice in iTunes updates, only for Palm to find workarounds each time.
Presumably now it's back to the drawing board for Palm's software engineers, although you'd think by now they might be considering other ways to help Pre owners get their music onto the device.
Meanwhile, the new iTunes update also lets users access their iTunes LP albums - complete with extra interactive content - on their TVs, via the Apple TV box. There's still no news, however, on when or if iTunes LP content will be accessible on iPhones.

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/34872...-syncing-Again

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