Palm Pre Bits for the Week
Here’s another weekly round-up of tasty tidbits on the Palm Pre. Information is coming in dribs and drabs, so I use this time as a brief news summary of the phone I’m leaning towards purchasing this summer.
- New Palm Pre video – This one popped up yesterday. It doesn’t show anything new, but it does give you an idea of how quick and easy it is to use the Pre for messages, calendar items, universal search and the web in a “real-world” scenario. Thanks to Mona for the heads up!
- Developers can catch a 56-minute vid about the Mojo SDK. I’m not a developer, so I won’t get to this one until later, if at all. (Into Mobile)
- Speaking of the SDK, is the Pre losing its Mojo each day the development tools don’t appear? I wonder how much this will impact the release dates of third-party apps.
- The Pre is appearing on Palm sites in eighteen different countries as of now. Is yours in the list? (PreCentral)
- Want the Pre look and feel on your older Palm OS device? You’ll want to see TealOS in action. (Gizmodo)
The day Palm ships the SDK will be the day Apple’s patent attorney’s can start researching their patent law suit in earnest.
I think we will see it in June, and I will take a hard look in September — depending on bugs, fixes, and what else is on the market.
I don’t see them staying with 8GB fixed alone for very long at all, that is a model from the past, cloud or not. Cloud and that battery worry me. We may see 16 GB in Fall or holiday season, with a hefty price drop for the 8GB.
Scotty: I don’t think the SDK is held back because of patents, although that is possible, but because they are not that far enough along. We may not see a final until after the sales start if Sprint and Palm decide to rush. They got a market bump, but these companies are both thin on engineering depth with all their recent trouble.
What I’m suggesting is that Kevin hasn’t heard of the SDK because if it gets released anytime soon (like he keeps pushing for) it will be to developers under strict NDA. The bundled emulator will be of use to people other than just Apple’s Patent Attorneys. Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG etc wouldn’t mind having an emulator to kick around either to help tune their responses to the Pre.