Smartphone Trash Talk Heats Up Between Apple, Palm

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Dexter Panganiban

The Palm Pre is the latest smartphone to have the mantle of ‘iPhone Killer’ bestowed upon it, and it looks like Apple may be concerned enough to have its lawyers looking for possible patent infringements.

In a Q&A during Apple’s Q1 earnings call earlier this week, an analyst asked Tim Cook, acting Apple CEO, to comment on the similarities of the touch functionality of the Palm Pre and iPhone. Although he didn’t mention Palm by name, Cook’s sharp response suggested that he’d been thinking along the same lines.

"We like competition, as long as they don’t rip off our IP, and if they do, we’re going to go after anybody that does," Cook said in the call. "We will not stand for having our IP ripped off and we’ll use whatever weapons we have at our disposal [to prevent that from happening]."

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CES 2009 Mobile Phone – Palm Pre

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Dexter Panganiban

The new Palm Pre has an ergonomic curved body with a slide-out vertical QWERTY keyboard and multi-touch screen. Slick in appearance and efficient in function, its webOS aims to bring together all of the facets of your life into one seamless application. And from what we’ve seen, the Pre looks like it could be a major threat to the iPhone and Android-based G1.

Palm has not set an exact availability date or a price for the Pre, but it will be on Sprint’s 3G network.

Here’s what we know about the specs on the Palm Pre:

High-speed wireless (EV-DO Rev. A or HSDPA, depending on version)
802.11b / g WiFi with WPA, WPA2, 801.1x authentication
3.1-inch 24-bit color 480 x 320 display
Dedicated gesture area below display
Slide-out portrait QWERTY keyboard (banana slider)
Integrated IM, MMS, and SMS messaging
Email: Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Direct Push Technology POP3/IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc). So it does push exchange email, but the rest is not push.
Built-in GPS
Bluetooth 2.1 EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
High-performance browser
3 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field
3.5mm headphone jack
8GB of internal storage (~7.4GB user available)
USB mass storage support
Phone as laptop modem – Bluetooth tethering
MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Proximity sensor for detecting when phone is near face
Light sensor to automatically dim display
Audio Formats: MPS, AAC, AAC , AMR, QCELP, WAV Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 Image Formats: GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP
Ringer mute switch
Removable rechargeable battery
Width: 59.5mm (2.3 inches) Height: 100.5mm (3.9 inches) Thickness: 16.95mm (0.67 inches)
Weight: 135 grams (4.76 ounces)

Source : treocentral.com

iPhone 2.2 software bugs on the rise

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Dexter Panganiban

What iPhone 2.2 software have some bugs on it ? palmaddict reported some of them that you might want to look at.

Third-party Applications broken. Some third-party applications will no longer function properly under iPhone OS 2.2 due to API changes and other modifications.

"Could not Connect to Internet". Some users are encountering an inability to connect to the Internet over cellular networks after the iPhone OS 2.2 update. In some cases, this issue can be resolved by switching from 3G to EDGE (or, for carriers other than AT&T, the appropriate GPRS network).

“SIM card not inserted”. Or PIN lock Some users are receiving an error message indicating that the SIM card is not inserted, or that a PIN lock is in place when none should exist. If you get the PIN lock message, try the suggestions in this tech note.

Kilometers instead of miles in Google Maps. It appears that Google Maps for the iPhone now displays kilometers instead of miles for various countries.

Problems deleting email. Some users are unable to delete emails from certain accounts, especially AOL accounts after the 2.2 update.

App Store extremely slow. The App Store is extremely slow after the iPhone OS 2.2 update for some users. This may be a server-side problem that Apple will resolved shortly.

Palm OS 5

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Dexter Panganiban

Palm is also heating up with their new OS thru Access , the company that licensed the Palm OS 5 source code — have just released ALP, and have published some PDFs of the OS to browse through.

It all looks endearingly Palmy, with thoughtful marination in the new OS features that have come into vogue since Palm left the OS market, including smooth transitions, animation, higher res displays and the ubiquitous accelerometer support. As someone who once fondly owned a Palm m130,

ALP 3.0 [Access via Gizmodo]

The Picture and Video Launch of Treo Pro

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Dexter Panganiban

It is a nice New line of Palm . Treo Pro’s is now finally uncovered to the public. The black handset is very sexy and the way it looks it will be a good competitor of iPhone. It is now around the web thru Tech Channels . it’s popped up today in several more high-res shots, a quick hands-on video, and even what looks like official press photography. Specs are still unknown although as per engadget

we’re hearing there’s a 400MHz processor and 128MB of RAM behind that 320 x 320 screen and original Xbox-looking exterior, but we won’t know for sure until this thing gets official, which we’re guessing will happen within the week. Video after the break.

The Treo Pro has been released this morning including short video. The company didn’t reveal a whole lot of information other than the following that the Treo Pro smartphone features a one-touch Wi-Fi button, GPS, Windows Mobile 6.1 and a high-resolution flush color touch screen. ( wow )

Source and Photo Credit [ slashgear.com & engadget.com ]

Bible in my PDA

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Dexter Panganiban

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I am now exploring all the usability of my I-mate PDAL and one of those is installing a handy bible at my palm. The Bible can be Downloaded for free at e-sword.net site. It works fine with my PDA.

The new Pocket e-Sword is feature rich and user friendly! Pocket e-Sword is developed for the Microsoft Pocket PC platforms, with the coolest features being available under the newest “Windows Mobile 2003″. The really cool thing about Pocket e-Sword is that you can have a complete seminary library with you wherever you go!

Minimal system requirements include:

Desktop PC running Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, or XP
Strong Arm/XScale based PDA running Pocket PC 2002, 2003/2003SE, or Windows Mobile 5
PDA must have a “touch screen”

I will post other finding that I may discover with this fantastic PDA.

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