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Mobile Gadget News Now that Palm Pre Plus phone has been revealed, the question everyone is asking is how it does compare to the other current top smartphones on the market? … How Palm can turn Things aroundI4U 10 Ways Palm Could Make a Comeback in the Mobile WorldeWeek all 3 news articles » |
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Palm Pre - Google News
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
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Keep your eyes peeled on CrackBerry.com this week as they unleash a slew of contests for their third birthday – they’ll all be listed here!
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler
There is this test call the Acid3 Test, and it is designed to test a web browser’s compliance with web standards, with an emphasis placed on Document Object Model and JavaScript. For an operating system based on web standards, you might think that webOS would have been scoring fairly highly with the test from day one. Not so, it would seem. In the early days of webOS, the browser scored a pitiful 1/100. With the update to webOS 1.3.1, the browser scored a 73/100 – better, but still not great.
Now, with webOS 1.4 out and about, the browser’s standards compliance has taken another step forward, scoring a 92/100. Obviously, that’s a great step forward as far as the browser is concerned, and we have been receiving reports of better performance and rendering on all manner of sites as a result. The score also vaults the webOS browser (seriously, it needs a name) to the upper tier of mobile browser compliance, topped only by Mobile Safari (100/100), Opera Mini (98/100), Firefox on Maemo (94/100), and Android’s browser (93/100). Of note, Safari and Android are both powered by the same WebKit core that hums underneath the webOS browser (and webOS as an OS), so full standards compliance is a possibility. At the very least, the score is worlds better than before and far ahead of Internet Explorer (Mobile: 5/100, Desktop: 32/100). For 99.999999% of users a score of 92/100 is going to be more than good enough for their browsing experience.
jack87 in our forums also notes that several sites (like costco.com) that previously failed out on webOS are now working. How about you, seeing better rendering now that you’re all 1.4′d up?
EDIT: Anchors (links that lead to a specific point on a page, e.g. comments) work now too! This blogger = happy camper.
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Palm Pre - Google News
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I4U Web OS looks fine, but the Pre is just not cool enough. Palm needs to release a Palm Pre II soon that is thinner and sleeker. eWeek published today a report … |
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Palm Pre - Google News
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Has webOS 1.4 won me over to the new Palm Pre Plus?
ZDNet (blog) I posted my review of the Verizon Palm Pre Plus back on 17 February and as you can read most of my cons had to do with the hardware. … Sprint drops Palm Pixi to $50UberGizmo (blog) webOS 1.4 update now available for the Palm Pre and Pixi on SprintWashington Post Palm Pre Delivers (Mostly) on Its PromisePC World AFP -CNET -Mobile Burn all 613 news articles » |
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler
Everybody who can get their webOS 1.4.0 jollies on can now also ‘doctor’ their way back to a fresh OS install. Palm has released the webOS 1.4.0 doctors for the Palm Pre and Pixi on Sprint and O2 as well as the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus on Verizon. If you’re not familiar with what the Doctor does, here’s a quick brief: the webOS Doctor is a Java-based computer application (works on PC or Mac) that overwrites corrupted or altered OS files with a fresh install of webOS. The Doctor is essentially the last best hope to restore a bricked phone (because of this, webOS phones are near impossible to brick from a software standpoint). While the webOS Doctor will perform a clean install of the OS, newer versions no longer wipe clean any files you have stored on the Media partition, so no worries about destroying those vacation pictures you forgot to backup.
The following webOS Doctors for 1.4 are available (direct download links):
And to go along with all this doctoring fun, the folks at WebOS Internals have whipped up new versions of their Meta-Doctor tool for webOS 1.4 on Sprint and Verizon.
Thanks to Shadow 360 for the tip!
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
Just about 24 hours after it landed on Sprint, webOS 1.4 is now available for Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. Get your update on, Verizon users, then check back and let us know how it goes.
Thanks to everybody who sent this in!
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
Just about 24 hours after it landed on Sprint, webOS 1.4 is now available for Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. Get your update on, Verizon users, then check back and let us know how it goes. Verizon changelog after the break…
Thanks to everybody who sent this in!
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Palm, Inc.
Update: Palm webOS 1.4 is now available for customers on Verizon Wireless.
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Palm Pre - Google News
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Palm comeback falling short
AFP NEW YORK — A year ago, handheld devices pioneer Palm seemed poised for a comeback. Its new smartphone, the Palm Pre, had just won "Best in Show" at the … and more » |