Comments on: Previewing the Palm Pre

By: zwadia

zwadia — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:01:07 +0000

Richard,

Thanks for reading!

That’s an interesting thought, I wouldn’t have made that correlation, as much as I admire the real Pre’s achievements. He was America’s finest.

By: RichardCKenniso

RichardCKenniso — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:53:17 +0000

Wonder if the name of the Pre was inspired by Nike? Pre or Steve Prefontaine led the crusade that inspired Phil Knight to develop innovative products for athletes and create the Nike brand; one that’s revered by many.

By: gojo

gojo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:07:06 +0000

Native PDF viewing will most likely be from Documents 2 Go

By: zwadia

zwadia — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:13:54 +0000

@AwayBBL

I assume you are referring to the whatwg_db specification? Nice to know in the future, HTML5 has some interesting optimization for AJAX as well with Web Sockets. Should yield easier/cleaner code once major browsers support it natively.

@Jonathan Smith

None of the screenshots I have seen imply native support for Office or PDF document viewing. I am sure a number of companies won’t find it too hard to port over an application that syncs with a cloud services and provides access to your documents. The iPhone has a great service called Soonr that works just like this.

@ Joey Jetstar

I have no idea about contact import capability from PalmOS. I am assuming Palm will facilitate this, I don’t see why it would be hard to provide this import capability with WebOS’ architecture.

By: Joey Jetstar

Joey Jetstar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:53:57 +0000

Do you think that my Palm contacts will transfer?

By: WebOS, Palm Pre and Enterprise Mobility | m|strat

WebOS, Palm Pre and Enterprise Mobility | m|strat — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:47:15 +0000

[...] Previewing the Pre -This is clearly a last gasp effort from a company that popularized the PDA genre, but lost the plot in the last few years. It’s always interesting how a capable company, knowing that it is on its last legs always tends to post up something worthy of praise. Desperation ignites the best in minds. [...]

By: jonathan smith

jonathan smith — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:32:54 +0000

what about PDF viewing?

By: AwayBBL

AwayBBL — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:17:16 +0000

Also, good point about not having UMTS support… if Palm intends this to be a world wide device, then EVDO doesn’t cut it.

By: AwayBBL

AwayBBL — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:15:15 +0000

Just as an FYI. Persistant storage is a feature of HTML5