Palm was proud to show off MotionApps’ PalmOS emulator, dubbed “Classic,” as a means of run legacy Palm OS software on the Palm Pre’s brand-spankin’-new WebOS. From what we saw back at CTIA Wireless 2009, Classic does a fantastic job of recreating the old Palm OS environment on the Palm Pre. Unfortunately, we were only…
Telus Puts The Palm Treo Pro On Offer From $149.99
Some more Canadian mobile news this morning comes to us via Telus. Seems as though the Canadian carrier has released the Palm Treo Pro for $149.99 on a 3-year contract. If the 3-year isn’t your deal you can go 2 years for $399.99, 1 year for $499.99 or purchase the Pro outright for $549.99. The…
Palm stops TealOS in its tracks
When TealPoint Software unveiled its WebOS look-alike interface for Palm OS smartphones, the mobile world took notice. TealOS, as it’s called, has been heralded for breathing new life into aging Palm OS-powered handsets like the Palm Centro. The TealOS application launcher features UI elements that mimic the upcoming Palm Pre’s WebOS – features like a…
Watch Out For Android on the Mobile Web Front
I was just looking over a post from Will the other day, in which he reported the clear dominance of the iPhone when it comes to mobile browsing/web traffic. You can’t deny that at all, the numbers are clear-cut… In fact, from last months’ AdMob report, the iPhone accounts for 51% of all US smartphone…
iPhone blows away competition with 66% of all mobile web traffic!
When it comes to using the mobile web, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that denies the iPhone’s multi-touch web browsing experience as anything less than top-notch. The mobile world scurried to bring their own touchscreen competitors to market when the iPhone blew up the scene with its inaugural launch in 2007, but no other…
Poll: iPhone 3G or Palm Pre?
With all the mobile world’s eyes fixed on Palm and the upcoming Palm Pre, there’s little doubt that the pebble-shaped smartphone is set to compete with the smartphone big-dogs like the iPhone 3G. But, which would you choose? On the one hand, we have the Palm Pre with its Web OS. We’ve covered the Web…
NormSoft’s Pocket Tunes 5.0 released for Windows Mobile and Palm OS
NormSoft released Pocket Tunes 5.0 for Windows Mobile and Palm OS smartphones. This latest update to the popular mobile audio player packs tons of new features, among which we highlight: Podcast support – over the air downloads Scrobbling with Last.fm Synchronizing with iTunes Support for Internet radio using Windows Media Audio (WMA) In a nutshell…
TealOS brings WebOS UI to Palm OS fans
Talk about getting a lot of “OS” bang for your buck! With the hype building around Palm’s business-saving Palm Pre and its finger-friendly, uber-intuitive Web OS, it was only a matter of time before some enterprising mobile developer cranked out a Web OS-themed skin for the Palm OS. Today, we see the TealOS bringing the…
R.I.P Palm OS: 1996-2008
That’s it, Palm CEO Ed Colligan has just sounded the death-knell for the Palm OS. Hold on to those old Palm OS-powered Palm Treo and Centro smartphones, they’ll be worth more in a few years as a collector’s item! Of course, we’re just kidding, but wouldn’t it be nice if the mobile world worked like…
StyleTap Platform released for Symbian OS
StyleTap Platform for Symbian OS is out, allowing over 30,000 existing Palm OS apps to run on Symbian smartphones from Nokia, Samsung and Sony-Ericsson. A major new feature included in the Symbian version is a display scaling enhancement that allows applications to run in hi-res mode (320×320 pixels), with the resulting screen graphically scaled to…