Google has found a decent alternative to the never ending power struggles with Apple and its app store. Google Voice is now available to any phone with HTML5 capability. This means that iPhone and WebOS can not benefit from the new Google Voice native web app as though it were an actual app. The app allows for dialing through the browser to make calls, send SMS text messages, listen to voicemail, access settings, and your contacts all through your browser. The app syncs with your Google contact list, but does not update your iPhone. The contacts will work on WebOS due to synergy contact list, but there is already a Google voice app, but not officially.
In a quick test of the app it felt responsive and like it was simply an app running on the phone itself. Hopefully all this foolishness can be pushed aside some day if Apple will simply allow the app. The WebOS platform should be much more simple for Google to get a native app into. It’s just a matter of time.
We continue to take a look at the new Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. We look at the multi-tasking capability and the new Wifi hotspot app that turns your Pre or Pixi into a wifi hotspot for up to 5 devices.
After spending a full day with the new Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, I thought I would share my initial impressions and give you some more detailed information about what are turning out to be very impressive phones.
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:
