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A look at the Palm Pre software

#36 | 10:07 |

Mr. Mobile


Wednesday September 16, 2009
Several years in the making, the latest from Palm, the

Palm Pre

, is a make or break device for the company. Jay Goldman looked at the Palm Pre hardware in last week's episode. Now, Mr. Mobile turns his attention to the software that makes the device run.

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Show Notes

WebOS



- Interface is heavily gesture based.

- Capacitive touchscreen.

- In "card view," applications are live as opposed to just a snapshot of the program's last state.

- Quicklaunch bar holds icons for several of the most commonly used applications.

- Pulling a finger up from the gesture bar onto the screen brings up a launcher ribbon that allows for quick launching of favorite applications.

- Swiping on the gesture bar allows for forward and backward navigation.

- Notification area alerts you to important updates on email, phone, calendars etc.

- On the home screen, start typing to bring up the "universal search."

- "Synergy" makes it easy to pull contacts from various web services to pull in your online contacts.

- Also pulls calendar notifications from linked online services.

- "Synergy" appears in messaging too: in the messaging app it's easy to switch between email, SMS, MMS and IM and all messages are kept in one place, regardless of which messaging service they were sent through.

- WebKit browser does an excellent job.
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