#pre

from Engadget http://www.engadget.com

"But first: frankly, I can’t fathom why the Pre and the Pixi haven’t proved to be more popular. The polish and panache of both phones are phenomenal. Both phones feature Palm’s Web OS software, a fine, fluid operating system that, in many aspects, out-iPhones the iPhone. Among other pluses, the software multitasks, so you can put on Pandora radio as you process your e-mail. These are multitouch phones, too, meaning that two-finger gestures (like pinching to shrink a photo or Web page) work perfectly."

Totally pointless, but cool. "Since the Palm Pre is based on Linux, I figured that you could probably run a Wordpress blog on the Palm Pre. Well, after about 3 hours of research, I found a way to run a wordpress blog using Optware Lighttpd and MySQL server."

"The Diff Match and Patch libraries offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text. "

"y running JSLint on all of our javascript files as part of our development process, we can find these nasty bugs before they start!Turns out, Spidermonkey isn't just faster than Rhino, it's a lot faster (at least to start up)."

"It has 90% more capacity than the original battery and comes with a door in black with Seidio's signature soft touch coating. Even with heavy phone and data usage, this battery will keep you charged and ready to go."

"You won't be happy until they actually enforce a cap on all of us, will you? "

"Lets see all the different views we will get! Maybe one of us might have something interesting! "

"There is some interesting stuff leftover from the testing process"

Now, if only it supported OpenSearch

"As a new Pre owner, I was curious to learn to code for the Palm WebOS SDK (Mojo). Whenever I try to learn a new technology, I try to build a functional test project. So… what to build for WebOS? Since the Pre’s web browser doesn’t currently support the W3C Geolocation spec used by Flickr Nearby, I figured a good “Hello World” might be an application to get the GPS coordinates from the Pre, and then load the appropriate Flickr page for that location."

"Let's take a moment to ponder this version and the Alto version, and just how many wasted instructions, layers of abstraction, frameworks, toolkits and outright cruft have gotten between the algorithm and the frame buffer in the intervening twenty-seven years. This program makes my phone hot. Hot, I tell you. "

"This is my first application for the Palm Pre. It's a simple restaurant tip calculator. I wrote it because there wasn't one, and it seemed an easy way to learn how to write apps for this phone. "

I have an iPod Touch, so I have the media. I want the messaging. "In all, Palm put as much effort into making the webOS a first-rate messaging experience as Apple did into making the iPhone a first-rate media experience, and with just as much success. So if most of your communication consists of Twitter, email, SMS, and IM with the people in your Facebook network and/or Gmail contacts list, then the Pre will do for your personal messaging what your work BlackBerry does for your business messaging."

"Best Buy Mobile, now in 1067 locations around the U.S. including standalone stores and stores-within-a-store at Best Buy will begin selling the Palm® Pre™ phone June 6. Without the hassle of mail-in rebates, Best Buy Mobile allows consumers to buy with instant rebate savings at the point of purchase."