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Review: YPmobile

April 7th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler

YPmobile

When Palm and AT&T are touting the coolness of YPmobile on the new AT&T Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, we’ve came to realize that it’s the exact same app you can already find in the App Catalog. In fact, we’re disappointed in ourselves for skipping over the app so many times, simply because of the name that conjured up images of super-thick books full of phone numbers and really bad ads on thin yellow paper. The free YPmobile app for webOS couldn’t be further from the yellow-paged days of yore, and that’s a good thing.

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Round Table: Improving webOS

March 29th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler

Round Table

Welcome to Round Table, which is in fact not a table at all. Round Table is a continuing series on PreCentral where we pose a question to the staff and they provide their thoughts and insights. The question could be something simple like “what’s your favorite webOS app?” or something a bit more complicated, like “what was Palm’s biggest mistake in getting here today?” Or maybe we’ll just end up chatting about our favorite recipe for pumpkin pie, you never know.

Today, however, we’re taking a critical look at our devices and webOS and asking, “If there was one thing you could improve about webOS, what would it be, and why?”

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YPMobile on the AT&T Palm Pre Plus: Hands-On

March 24th 2010 | Posted by Dieter Bohn

As you’ve no-doubt surmised by now, there isn’t a lot of daylight between the Palm Pre Plus on Verizon and the Palm Pre Plus on AT&T; Verizon gets mobile hotspot while AT&T gets a radio that has a better chance of actually working outside the United States.

One piece of new software that is getting on board with AT&T is YPMobile, which is their Yellow Pages app. It’s a straightforward local-search app, but it does allow you to add ‘locations’ to your calendar and contacts directly. It also uses Bing maps as a base, to those of you who are trying to keep Google from reading your mind may prefer that.

UPDATE: As Cinnabarcorp in the comments has so aptly pointed out, YPMobile is nothing new. In fact, it’s been in the App Catalog since December. So yeah, we feel kind of silly right now (and confused that Palm and AT&T are touting this as if it’s something new), but we’re also pretty jazzed that we can download it right now.