For Palm, Pre is the do or die gadget. And over the last year, it has heavily relied on the gadget to re-gain the brand and market. The financial results of the first quarter of the 2010 fiscal year are out, and the company has beaten estimates and has seen a strong increase in sales (atleast quarter-over-quarter). However, the sad part still prevails, Palm is still into losses, as the operating costs are higher than expected. During the conference call following the presentation of the results, Palm CEO Rubinstein also announced that Palm will completely abandon Windows Mobile in favor of the Read further »

After the work of few good people, the new formed Palm’s developer group launched a one day developers “camp” in 80 cities this Saturday. The group attracted fairly large no. of interested developers. More than 2000 developers had signed up for the PreDevCamps. PreDevCamp was organized by Dan Rumney, Greg Stevenson and Lisa Brewster. The volunteer, non-profit group is not affiliated with Palm or with the official Palm Developer Network. Sponsors currently include: BlueSwitch, PreCentral, O’Reilly, Zanox, and Adobe, with additional support from LittleSprings Design, Pivotal Labs and UE Architects. The Group intended to stimulate the creative juices of attendees by exploring what’s Read further »

Palm Pre is Open developer’s Playground. Officially, Palm doesn’t itnerfere with what develoepr’s want to do with it. Palm had stated that they are free and open to any kinds of Experiment on their platform. That Proves it’s WebOS is the most open Platform. Now, a developer has played around with Palm pre to develop an application called My Tether, that allows you to convert your Palm Pre into a Wifi router, with tethering enabled, to share Internet (3G) connection with any number Read further »

Palm is the most developer friendly mobile environment I have ever seen. Previously we mentioned Palm says, Feel Free to Jailbreak Palm Pre. That was the best example of why this is something different from what we have seen in the past. What’s more? Palm Pre MOJO SDK is very powerful and yet welcoming. After all the reviews and opinions, I fell, The Pre isn’t a bad phone, but it’s simply not worth the $200 to $250 premium over the BlackBerry Curve, the T-Mobile G1, and the iPhone 3G. Read further »

After the long leaked Mojo SDK, the official mature SDK is out. The SDK, unlike iPhone SDK, is open to anyone who wish to write for Pre platform. Even in its initial beta stage, over 1.8 million+ apps have been downloaded from the beta App Catalog since Palm Pre was released less than six weeks ago. Palm quotes at it’s official release blog: Thousands of developers have participated in the Mojo SDK early access program since it began in early April. New applications are Read further »

Ever since Palm introduced the Pre at CES a few weeks ago, rumors have been swirling over the possibility of Palm butting heads with Apple in a courtroom over the Pre’s functionality. Critics say the Pre’s use of swiping the screen to move between windows, and multitouch gestures to zoom, make it a logical legal target for Apple, which has engaged in some posturing over the past few weeks. In Apple’s quarterly earnings call last week, COO Tim Cook said that his company “will not stand for having our IP ripped off,” but he wouldn’t “talk about any specific Read further »