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Palm Pre preps firmware update, prods SDK and provides new apps
Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 17:42
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Sony tried expanding it with its own Palm line, but Palm then sold it off and Palm has had to create its own webOS instead to catch up. Even so, innovation is easy to say and hard to do, and while webOS isn’t as advanced as the iPhone OS, its multitouch capabilities and great potential make the chance of a real Palm resurgence much more likely, bringing always needed competition to the rapidly evolving world of handheld ultra-computing and communication.
But Palm will have to work fast! It needs to catch up - and grow an enthusiastic base of users.
After all, iPhone 3.0 OS and 3G S features outdo the Palm Pre, iPhone OS 3.5 or 4.0 is already well in planning, Google’s Android continues its rapid evolution, Windows Mobile 6.5 is here with 7 coming soon and the true elegance or otherwise of Nokia’s N97 and future Symbian operating systems is all yet to be seen.
Until then, Sprint CDMA customers who have been waiting for a true iPhone-like phone with real multitouch, or the latest Palm upgrade, now have it available at long last.
And when Palm gets around to launching 3.5G versions for the rest of the world (manufacturing issues notwithstanding), its real assault on the global smartphone market, perhaps with the future Palm Pre 2, will truly begin.
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