We unbox the upcoming Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus from Verizon. My initial impressions are that these "Plus" versions of the phones are much nicer and feel better put together than their Sprint counterpart. So far service has been excellent and the Mobile Hotspot application that allows 5 devices to tether to your WebOS device is a great addition. Check back in the coming days for more videos and the full review.
The Palm Pre on Sprint was quite a powerful multi-tasking phone, but now that a newer model is coming to Verizon with more memory and storage it becomes something to reckon with. If anyone out there has used a Palm Pre, you know that after you begin multi-tasking by opening up card after card you will reach a limit where you are out of memory and can no longer open another card. The Verizon Palm Pre Plus remedies this with added internal memory for WebOS. In the video from Precentral.net, the Pre Plus gets up to 50 cards at once and could keep going, but the maker of the video thinks they proved their point. The Pre Plus is also slightly faster as well and now that it is on Verizon is a solid alternative to iPhone or Android. See the video after the jump:
Some time ago now, Adobe had given a quick demo of Flash running on the WebOS platform using the Palm Pre. A couple days ago they gave a new demo of a few Flash games from two different companies. The Pre appears to be running the games fairly effortlessly while at the same time having a couple cards open. Check out what Flash can do on the WebOS platform and what most likely will never come to iPhone. See the video after the junp:
We take a look at the aluminum lined leather case for iPhone. The case has some nice features but lacks in other. Overall it is a decent case and worth taking a look at. See the video for all of the details.
There were some rumblings from various sites today that WebOS1.3.5 may be coming today. The update is here and is being pushed to your device as we type this. The update comes in at just 13MB, but has some significat fixes for those of you using WebOS.
App limit fixed.
App Catalog downloads continue even after leaving the app’s page.
App purchases have been expanded to US territories (sorry Europe, Canada, etc).
Switching between days in Calendar is now faster.
Sprint Navigation can be launched from a Contact.
Palm Profile app restores happen in the background, letting the user get to the phone faster.
Future webOS updates can be downloaded over 2G wireless (1xRTT).
Notifications now work in landscape mode (which has strangely lost the rounded corners).
Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.
QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of video sent via MMS.
Launch Google Maps or Sprint Nav when tapping an address from contacts.
Minimized package of MR size through binary difference. Customers can now download over 2G connections if necessary.
This will probably be the last update before any new announcements by Palm at the upcoming CES Expo in Las Vegas shortly. An interesting tidbit to note is that some who have scoured over the code have found pengles.ipk and opengles-omap3.ipk, which are what you need to get GPU acceleration running. Happy updating!
