Me too, especially Live Search. I've said before that if the Instinct had a better operating system, like WebOS, it would have definitely been serious competition for the iPhone. Instead, I think it was rushed to the market undeveloped.
Palm Pre Owners Step This Way
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Me too, especially Live Search. I've said before that if the Instinct had a better operating system, like WebOS, it would have definitely been serious competition for the iPhone. Instead, I think it was rushed to the market undeveloped.
itunes only took them hours to do according to precentral. remember the iphone took years till they got video but i doubt we have to wait that longThose fools more worried about Itunes. They should have been had that shit!
When using My Tether, does the pc still charge your phone since it's plugged in or are you forced to rely on the battery of the phone to last?
What's the main purpose of tripster?
I meant to type Trapster
Its an app that shows you the exact location where the police are using their radar guns (using the gps) for speed traps. So in all actualilty you should never get a speeding ticket again
Funny thing is, I installed the app and now i dont see it in the app catalog anymore
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
maybe it wasnt ready and thats why my phone had the error
plus the shit was free and i just knew we would have to pay for this app
Btw, the shit is working perfectly
i just tested it out in my car and their was a trooper in that exact location
Oh aiight. That's whats up. Are you familiar with MyTether as well? I wanna know if the battery charges when plugged into the pc while using that appI meant to type Trapster
Its an app that shows you the exact location where the police are using their radar guns (using the gps) for speed traps. So in all actualilty you should never get a speeding ticket again
Funny thing is, I installed the app and now i dont see it in the app catalog anymore
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
maybe it wasnt ready and thats why my phone had the error
plus the shit was free and i just knew we would have to pay for this app
Btw, the shit is working perfectly
i just tested it out in my car and their was a trooper in that exact location
I meant to type Trapster
Its an app that shows you the exact location where the police are using their radar guns (using the gps) for speed traps. So in all actualilty you should never get a speeding ticket again
Funny thing is, I installed the app and now i dont see it in the app catalog anymore
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
maybe it wasnt ready and thats why my phone had the error
plus the shit was free and i just knew we would have to pay for this app
Btw, the shit is working perfectly
i just tested it out in my car and their was a trooper in that exact location
Trapster app pulled after launch reveals problems
Can anyone answer my question on MyTether?
Why dont you just pug it into a socket it will be easier.
I used MyTether via usb n it was charging..... you get the same actions with wall socket
can u plz tell me wat scene is this i see it all the time and i gotta knw
send me a pm n ill give u the link
Aiight cool. I didn't install MyTether yet & wanted to know in advance.
MyTether no longer works for me since I'm using the free version and I upgraded to 1.12.
Shit worked great through wifi though.
It's funny how the App Catalog quietly jumped from barely over 50 apps a month ago to well over 200. 
It's funny how the App Catalog quietly jumped from barely over 50 apps a month ago to well over 200.
its because they allowed the ability to sell apps, that made developers more prone to make apps for the Palm Pre now... its only going to get better.
I think once the pixi drops, and the WebOS gains more consumers... its all smooth sailing.
True but they need to resolve that issue of limited space availabilty to install apps. What's the point of having all that drive space if you can only use 10% of it to install apps.
will an update erase my tether? I just got notification for an update. couple days ago.
The 1.12 update stopped the free version of my tether working for me over usb.
I hear that the usb/bluetooth work with the free versions still.
What update did you get prompted for?
What's New in webOS 1.3.1
What's new in webOS 1.3.1? In a nutshell, Yahoo Synergy, tweaks to the messaging app (forwarding!), adjustments to PIN settings, some improvement to the music player, some performance improvements (but nothing that will blow your mind), and some underpinnings for things like the Facebook app and the ability the change default apps.
What's not new? Most of the rest of the OS, including Media Sync not working with iTunes 9.0.2.
Want to know more? Follow us after the break!
Yahoo in Synergy
The biggest feature in webOS 1.3.1 is that Yahoo has been added to Synergy, meaning that you can now sync your contacts, calendar, email, and IM buddies list from the service. YahooIM also now works in webOS for everybody (instead of the strangely lucky few). I'm no longer a heavy Yahoo user so I can't comment extensively on it, but I did hook up my old account and it seems to work. The ability to switch between SMS and multiple types of IM in the same threaded message view is as grand as it ever was.
As an aside, at this point we are in serious need to a unified Synergy preferences app. Adding and managing accounts is spread across Contacts, Calendars, Email, Tasks, and Messaging. More granular control is necessary - I want contacts from three of them, just IM on some of them, just email from another, and so on. A feature I'd like to see Palm steal from Google is more control over which contacts are pulled in from Facebook (and I'll add LinkedIn): the ability to only sync contacts that are already present in your address book. Palm's given us the tools to suck in a huge amount of data from the cloud, now we need tools to better manage that information.
User Interface Features
Tapping on a text message or IM pops up a menu to allow you to forward, copy text, or delete a single message. Hooray? Hooray!
In the music player, when you hold your finger down on the fast forward or rewind button, a 'scrubber' pops up so you can drag it along to the part of the song or podcast you're looking for. Glad to see this finally arrive.
In the category of often-request features, there are improvements to the PIN behavior. You can now set your PIN to be any arbitrary length (I stopped at 20 digits). More importantly, there is now a "Lock After" feature you can set anywhere from "Screen turns off" to 30 minutes.
There are now placeholder images for flash elements on web pages instead of big blank spaces. If those flash elements are YouTube videos, there is a nice preview image that you can click on to view the video in the YouTube app. (This blogger is pleased that he no longer will need to manually insert a YouTube link on every YouTube video). Full Flash support, as we reported yesterday, will come in "early 2010."
webOS 1.3.1 does not fix iTunes Sync. Make of that what you will.
Under the Hood
Palm has also told me that the 'underpinnings' necessary for the Facebook app are also in 1.3.1. That app is not included on the device by default (a mistake, in my opinion), but once you have a device that's been updated to 1.3.1, you can get it from the App Catalog. A full review of the Facebook app can be found here.
Speaking of the App Catalog, it now filters apps so only the apps that are compatible with the Pixi appear there. If you have apps backed up to your Palm Account (i.e. if you're switching), they will re-download, even if they're not Pixi compatible - see Derek's post for more on this. Not Pixi compatible as of this writing: the Classic PalmOS emulator.
One thing I'm excited to see is a new option in the Launcher called "Default Apps" that, while grayed out now, someday will allow you to choose which apps handle the following:
* Phone Numbers (Hello Improved Google Voice Integration!)
* Addresses (Defaults to Google Maps, theoretically you could send them to Sprint Nav)
* Email Addresses (Somebody write me a real Gmail client posthaste)
* Web Links (Hi Apple, Palm's cracking the door open for alternative browsers like Opera Mini.)
The same screen also lets you set the default app for a large array of file extensions, opening the door for alternative music players, video players, document editors, etc.
Besides the ability to download the Facebook app, there are no new apps in webOS 1.3.1 and only a smattering of inconsequential changes beyond the above mentioned items - at least that I can find. 'Orange' + Tap on an icon still gives you the option to delete 3rd party apps, but now it also shows you the size.
Bluetooth (on the Pixi at least) appears to have received a bunch of fixes as well. On the Pre I've never been able to get A2DP Bluetooth stereo to work with my car stereo (AVRCP controls worked fine). The Pixi pulls it off without a hitch.
With a couple exceptions, speed isn't significantly improved (more on that in our full review). There are a raft of other much-desired features missing here as well, but still and all, it's webOS and I'm rather fond of it.
http://www.precentral.net/whats-new-webos-131
What's new in webOS 1.3.1? In a nutshell, Yahoo Synergy, tweaks to the messaging app (forwarding!), adjustments to PIN settings, some improvement to the music player, some performance improvements (but nothing that will blow your mind), and some underpinnings for things like the Facebook app and the ability the change default apps.
What's not new? Most of the rest of the OS, including Media Sync not working with iTunes 9.0.2.
Want to know more? Follow us after the break!
Yahoo in Synergy
The biggest feature in webOS 1.3.1 is that Yahoo has been added to Synergy, meaning that you can now sync your contacts, calendar, email, and IM buddies list from the service. YahooIM also now works in webOS for everybody (instead of the strangely lucky few). I'm no longer a heavy Yahoo user so I can't comment extensively on it, but I did hook up my old account and it seems to work. The ability to switch between SMS and multiple types of IM in the same threaded message view is as grand as it ever was.
As an aside, at this point we are in serious need to a unified Synergy preferences app. Adding and managing accounts is spread across Contacts, Calendars, Email, Tasks, and Messaging. More granular control is necessary - I want contacts from three of them, just IM on some of them, just email from another, and so on. A feature I'd like to see Palm steal from Google is more control over which contacts are pulled in from Facebook (and I'll add LinkedIn): the ability to only sync contacts that are already present in your address book. Palm's given us the tools to suck in a huge amount of data from the cloud, now we need tools to better manage that information.
User Interface Features
Tapping on a text message or IM pops up a menu to allow you to forward, copy text, or delete a single message. Hooray? Hooray!
In the music player, when you hold your finger down on the fast forward or rewind button, a 'scrubber' pops up so you can drag it along to the part of the song or podcast you're looking for. Glad to see this finally arrive.
In the category of often-request features, there are improvements to the PIN behavior. You can now set your PIN to be any arbitrary length (I stopped at 20 digits). More importantly, there is now a "Lock After" feature you can set anywhere from "Screen turns off" to 30 minutes.
There are now placeholder images for flash elements on web pages instead of big blank spaces. If those flash elements are YouTube videos, there is a nice preview image that you can click on to view the video in the YouTube app. (This blogger is pleased that he no longer will need to manually insert a YouTube link on every YouTube video). Full Flash support, as we reported yesterday, will come in "early 2010."
webOS 1.3.1 does not fix iTunes Sync. Make of that what you will.
Under the Hood
Palm has also told me that the 'underpinnings' necessary for the Facebook app are also in 1.3.1. That app is not included on the device by default (a mistake, in my opinion), but once you have a device that's been updated to 1.3.1, you can get it from the App Catalog. A full review of the Facebook app can be found here.
Speaking of the App Catalog, it now filters apps so only the apps that are compatible with the Pixi appear there. If you have apps backed up to your Palm Account (i.e. if you're switching), they will re-download, even if they're not Pixi compatible - see Derek's post for more on this. Not Pixi compatible as of this writing: the Classic PalmOS emulator.
One thing I'm excited to see is a new option in the Launcher called "Default Apps" that, while grayed out now, someday will allow you to choose which apps handle the following:
* Phone Numbers (Hello Improved Google Voice Integration!)
* Addresses (Defaults to Google Maps, theoretically you could send them to Sprint Nav)
* Email Addresses (Somebody write me a real Gmail client posthaste)
* Web Links (Hi Apple, Palm's cracking the door open for alternative browsers like Opera Mini.)
The same screen also lets you set the default app for a large array of file extensions, opening the door for alternative music players, video players, document editors, etc.
Besides the ability to download the Facebook app, there are no new apps in webOS 1.3.1 and only a smattering of inconsequential changes beyond the above mentioned items - at least that I can find. 'Orange' + Tap on an icon still gives you the option to delete 3rd party apps, but now it also shows you the size.
Bluetooth (on the Pixi at least) appears to have received a bunch of fixes as well. On the Pre I've never been able to get A2DP Bluetooth stereo to work with my car stereo (AVRCP controls worked fine). The Pixi pulls it off without a hitch.
With a couple exceptions, speed isn't significantly improved (more on that in our full review). There are a raft of other much-desired features missing here as well, but still and all, it's webOS and I'm rather fond of it.
http://www.precentral.net/whats-new-webos-131
^^^Good to know. I gotta wait til Monday to update mine though. I have a few tweaks that I need to remove & am no where near to my pc.
the update comes out for pixi first and the pre will get it shortly after
Even better news
when does 1.3.1 drop?
I need to forward messages 3 months ago when i bought this phone
and when are we getting the camcorder
palm has a beast that theyre mismanaging
ive played with the iphone and the droid
and that shit isnt as good as the pre
but palm is tripping
I need to forward messages 3 months ago when i bought this phone
and when are we getting the camcorder
palm has a beast that theyre mismanaging
ive played with the iphone and the droid
and that shit isnt as good as the pre
but palm is tripping
that video shit is gonna have me coppin a droid but i did get a hd camcorder so i dont miss it that much
your sig is hilarious!!!!!
man i thought about that droid too
but honestly its not fucking with our Pre
but theyre fucking us with all these limitations
i was mad about the video but i copped a vado hd and that shit is nice as fuck, sometimes i forget i have the vado and get pissed about the Pre still not having videoyour sig is hilarious!!!!!
man i thought about that droid too
but honestly its not fucking with our Pre
but theyre fucking us with all these limitations
i had a feeling droid phones werent as nice as webos but it looked like the latest update was dope
Downloading 1.3.1 now! Anyone got it already?
Downloading 1.3.1 now! Anyone got it already?
oh shit
good fucking look
hit the update button and there it goes
downloading right now!
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