Posts Tagged ‘ Palm ’
In an attempt, a good one at that, to increase the current dismal haul of Palm Pre/Pixi apps, Palm has released Project Ares, a development environment that runs entirely in a web browser. How cool is that. No need to install any software on your computer. It is in public beta. Get it here
I now get a full day out my Palm Pre, thanks to the energizing effects of my Seidio battery. Unplugged it from its charger at 6am yesterday morning and by 10pm last night still had had 25% juice left. Also getting used to the Pre’s new full figure. I may actually prefer it to the original shape. Less slippery also.
What was Palm thinking when they put that 1150mAh battery into the Pre. It looks like an after-dinner chocolate wafer and generates approximately the same amount of energy. Running your Pre on that battery is like being a dog on a leash. Can’t stray further than the length of the charger cable. Late last night I introduced my Pre to Mr Seidio, all 2800mAh of him. He made a huge impact as you can see from the photos below, and after a long night which involved a cable also, Pre and her new beau can be seen here, very much the happy and expectant couple. When asked Pre confessed that she quite likes Seidio’s rough exterior.
My Palm Pre downloaded the new 1.3.1 version of WebOS over the air, installed itself, and the phone still works. Pretty impressive given that the download was nearly 130MB and that the phone did the download by itself in the background. It took 2 days. Hard to know exactly how much the download cost, but probably not much less ZAR130.
1.3.1 contains a long list of improvements, one of them the ability to manually configure the mobile network settings for MMS. This is great as I should be able to send and receive MMS messages once I have configured it. The settings for my mobile network MTN are:
Palm provides updates to its OS over the air to the Palm Pre. The latest version 1.3.1 is now available to European models, including mine which was imported from Germany. The update is 126MB large so may be a challenge for the local mobile phone network. Will see how it goes.
I bought O2 German-version GSM Palm Pre a couple of weeks ago from my trusty importer and on-line cellphone retailer Ca-Cellular www.cacell.co.za. The keyboard layout is qwertz not qwerty, but I have been following the Palm Pre’s journey with interest for a long time so wasn’t going to be put off by one misplaced key. Been a Palm fan since way back; still take my Treo 650 out of its box from time to time; and have high hopes of WebOS and the Palm Pre/Pixi.
Have been using the Pre for a couple of weeks now, and have mixed feelings about it. More about that later, but I was just wondering if my Pre could be the first one in use in Africa? Wonder how I could find out.
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