Archive for the ‘Platforms: PalmOS’ Category

Palm Opens Developer Program

January 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

About a year after the first WebOS device launch, Palm is finally opening up the developer program to developers world-wide. To date, the App Catalog only holds 1.000 mobile applications and games.

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Palm Closed App Catalog to Imported Pre’s

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Palm has decided to disallow imported Pre’s access to the App Catalog. This software block comes with the 1.3.1 OS update that has been dispatched by Palm toward all Pre owners.

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Palm to Change Apps Policy

October 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Coming December, we will see a very interesting update on Palm's WebOS. The company will be allowing apps to be installed from third party channels and will drop the $99 fee for open source apps.

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Palm’s Pre Confirmed for EU Launches

September 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Palm's long awaited Pre is set to be introduced in Europe. Both in the UK (16-10) as well as in Germany (13-10), the device will be sold by operator O2, but it will be available in more countries.

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Tele-Visie: Palm Pre Launch Tightly Directed

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Yesterday we visited the Dutch Tele-Visie event. Besides the free food and drinks, the event is known for leaking information on upcoming devices. As so, we hoped to get a bit more information about developing mobile games for the Palm Pre.

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Palm Pre Supports PalmOS!?

April 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

The Palm Pre is already widely known for it's new webOS (it fully replaces the good old PalmOS). For those that find id hard to say goodbye though, the company will put a PalmOS emulator on their new device.

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New App Store Concepts Aim Jailbreaked iPhones

March 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Apple seems to finally get competition according to an article on The Wallstreet Journal. Several developers are starting to sell their disallowed mobile games and applications via channels that aim consumers that jailbreaked their iPhones.

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Mobclix Offers Realtime App Store Statistics

February 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | 2 Comments »

Today we received an e-mail about Mobclix, a new company (that is, we never heard of them before) with interesting statistics. We went to their site and where amazed by the interesting demographics that we found.

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PalmOS Hits EOL Status

February 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Palm has announced that their PalmOS has reached the End Of Life status. The OS which has been a Palm trademark for many years will be traded in for the brand new WebOS.

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Nova, Palm’s New OS

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

2008 seems the be the year of the OS. We've seen Symbian change hands, Symbian UIQ die, Android launch and hey, in the last second, good old Palm announces a new OS (which probably means they will ditch their old one).