Gizmodo:
For the first time ever, every major carrier in the US actually has smartphones worth buying, meaning you don't have to break up to get a good phone. Here's the best phones on each one, along with the best deals. If you hate the gallery format, click here. All pricing shown is with a new year 2-year contract, and some deals (Read More)
Engadget:
If you like your software homebrewed with just a hint of alpha then boy do we have an app for you. The WebOS homebrew community just released Precorder; an app that lets your Palm Pre record audio and 30fps 480x320 pixel video in H.264/AVC format -- you can can even control the built-in LED for recording in low-light situat (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
Several Palm Pre customers have reported major problems with their handset’s online backup system, resulting in the loss of phone numbers, calendar events, memos and other data.The issue stems from corrupted backups, according to Pre enthusiast blog PreCentral. The Pre backs up its data as a “Palm Profile” online, and it on (Read More)
Gizmodo:
If you've been backing up your Pre, you might think that if you, say, drop it in the toilet, you'll be set to have all your data placed on a replacement. That might not be the case. It looks like the Palm Profile has been having issues with corrupted backups, leaving users trying to restore from a backup without their data. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
That's right, 480 x 320-pixel video recording at 30fps is now go. The homebrew software is only an alpha (so there's bugs like not being able to preview what you're recording), but the app works, and is free to download. When WebOS 1.3.1 skipped updating the camera app, the developers of Precorder decided not to wait any lo (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you haven’t been following Palm’s little bundle of joy, the Pre, too closely, then you may have been oblivious to the fact that (just like the iPhone in its early days) is devoid of video recording, although it has a perfectly capable camera. Well, that’s no longer true; a new app called the Precorder lets users record 4 (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Black Friday may when prices are low, but if you've carefully read the list of deals, you can tell it's also a BS marketing gimmick. Here's how not to get fooled (plus, what gadgets to avoid at any price): In other words, many of these "deals" really aren't deals at all. Often, Black Friday sale products are priced differen (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Ah, the curse of the groggy morning. You may have followed all the rules: no caffeine before bed, an early bedtime, and all the rest. But your best efforts are oftentimes for naught, foiled by the mysterious ways of sleep cycles. There may be an answer: WakeMate, a Y Combinator-funded startup that’s launching today, is l (Read More)
PalmInfocenter:
It's here! Easy video recording is now in alpha testing on the Palm Pre, via the new Precorder app. Made possible by weeks (and weeks and weeks) of painstaking work by "zsoc" of WebOS Internals (with big assistance from Rod Whitby, Roy of Pre101, and the ever-amazing Jason Robitaille), Precorder operates by way of a custom (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Theoretically, we shouldn't drive while playing with gadgets. But at stop lights and while we're waiting for roadtrip passengers to finish buying cornchips at the gas station quickmart, well, OK. Half the guide is here, and half on Jalopnik. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click he (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There's a certain type of person for whom airports and airplanes cease to be novel, and start to feel like home. This is depressing, on many levels! Which is why these people need gifts. Lots and lots of gifts. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. A good pair of in-ear phone (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There's a certain type of person for whom airports and airplanes cease to be novel, and start to feel like home. This is depressing, on many levels! Which is why these people need gifts. Lots and lots of gifts. If you want to view the gallery as a single page, click here. A good pair of in-ear phones: It's impossible to ove (Read More)
TechCrunch:
When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., as measured by all the mobile ad requests it track (Read More)
PalmInfocenter:
Wow. Either Palm are a lot further along with that much lusted-after Pre GPU support than we all thought, or PreCentral forum member casperstar is laughing his butt off as he perpetuates one of the greatest Palm hoaxes of all time. The aforementioned poster has published a video (since taken down and then re-uploaded by ano (Read More)
PalmInfocenter:
Right on cue, webOS 1.3.1 has been turned loose on European Palm Pres, finally bringing sweet, sweet parity to the world of webOS. The full changelogs for the UK, Irish, German, and Spanish models are up for perusal, but the really good news for international importers of the unlocked German Pre is that an option is now ava (Read More)