Palm Pre WebOS Launch Software Roundup

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Monday, June 8, 2009 2:36:38 PM

Palm Pre AppsPalm's website and official blog have posted new information on the range of third party apps available for the Pre. There are now over 20 or so apps now available through Palm's on device App Catalog.

Palm has yet to release a public SDK, so the apps currently showing up have been developed by Palm's launch partners. Some additional new applications have been added to the Catalog today and plenty of new ones could possibly be released before grand SDK unveiling.

Palm's blog has posted a nice summary of some new apps announced today and we've expanded on this with some that have crossed our desk this morning:

  • uLocate: the WHERE application for Pre provides local content based on your current location, including weather, news, restaurant reviews, gas stations, movie show times, and the ability to connect with other users.
     
  • Zumobi: the company's Today Show and Sporting News Baseball apps for Pre offer on-the-go news and sports updates.
     
  • LikeMe: This application combines your location with your LikeMe profile to offer personalized recommendations on nearby places.
     
  • FlightView: The FlightView app provides users up-to-the-minute flight information.
     
  • Mark/Space: The Mac version of "The Missing Sync for Palm Pre" Beta 1 synchronizes contacts, calendars, music, ringtones, photos and more between a Mac and Pre.
     
  • Chapura: PocketMirror Standard lets Pre users synchronize data with non-EAS desktop versions of Microsoft Outlook.
     
  • Citysearch: With Mobile by Citysearch, Pre users can browse, search and share local business information and post real-time reviews.
     
  • Handmark: Express Stocks helps Palm Pre customers keep up with their stock portfolio and market news.
     
  • Pandora: The popular internet radio application provides a personalized free mobile music channel to Pre customers.
     
  • Fandango: Not only can Pre users view movie trailers and order tickets using this app, but Fandango will automatically schedule your upcoming movies on your calendar thanks to Palm Synergy.
     
  • Beeweeb: beeweeb is offering development services for the Palm webOS platform and the new Palm Pre phone.
     
  • Agile Commerce: Agile Commerce is working with developers to create applications for the Palm webOS platform and the Palm Pre phone.
  • Shortcovers by Indigo Books & Music: full fledged eReader and ebook store that features well over 50,000 popular book titles.
  • CONNECT 4 by EA Mobile: popular row-making game from Hasbro

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yay

whiteasianrose @ 6/8/2009 7:15:46 PM # Q
25 apps as of tonight
RE: yay
jca666us @ 6/8/2009 7:17:51 PM # Q
when they're not just html and javascript, gimme a call! lol
RE: yay
twrock @ 6/8/2009 9:59:28 PM # Q
jca666us, you are becoming as transparent as SV. Do you have a club or something? ;-)

Give it a rest already. It's a brand new device running a brand new OS. It just launched, and they haven't even released the SDK. Apple had this point in their history as well. It happens. It's ok. You just have to wait and see.

Hey Palm! Where's my PDA with Wifi and phone capabilities?

RE: yay
SeldomVisitor @ 6/9/2009 3:07:37 AM # Q
Twrock, why in the WORLD are you defending Palm so much?

That's a sincere question. It doesn't make sense in the face of fact.

RE: yay
freakout @ 6/9/2009 4:15:29 AM # Q
whiteasianrose:
25 apps as of tonight

yep! it's good stuff. I need a Pre soon so I can start reviewing these things!

twrock:
jca666us, you are becoming as transparent as SV.

Hang on. Becoming?! ;)

SV:
Twrock, why in the WORLD are you defending Palm so much?

Isn't it obvious? He's actually Ed Colligan posting under a pseudonym. Didn't we all know that...?

RE: yay
jca666us @ 6/9/2009 5:24:52 AM # Q
Freak, go back to bed.

twrock, I say what I have to - in order to counterbalance the rampant "Pre is great - what issues" lovefest currently going on.

BTW, what the hell was Palm thinking - the Pre should have definitely had a landscape keyboard. That chicklet keyboard is way too tiny.

RE: yay
twrock @ 6/9/2009 5:45:44 AM # Q
freakout wrote:
SV:
Twrock, why in the WORLD are you defending Palm so much?

Isn't it obvious? He's actually Ed Colligan posting under a pseudonym. Didn't we all know that...?


Oh sure, go and blow my cover. There had to be at least a few people around here who hadn't figured that out. How is anyone going to believe anything I say now? Now that the cats out of the bag, I'm going to have to start posting under one of my other pseudonyms. Dang. I kinda liked this one.

Yeah, SV, since there is absolutely nothing good about anything Palm does, how in the WORLD could ANYONE defend ANYTHING that they are doing. Inconceivable!

SV, at the moment, Palm is actually doing some things right. I know you can not accept that as true, but it is. No, they aren't doing everything right. Yes, they have some serious problems to work on. No, there is no assurance they are even going to make it as a company. And no, I don't even want the Pre. But when you finally start noticing some of the positive things Palm does, just maybe your "criticism" might sound a little more valid than the perpetual stream of innuendo you keep throwing out here in the name of "I'm really just interested".

Since it is possible I missed them, please point me to the posts where you acknowledged anything Palm has done right. Please, show me the tiniest bit of a balanced view of Palm. It really is possible I missed those couple of posts over the past five years. Maybe you really do have something like a 99 to 1 ratio, and I just haven't noticed. If so, my bad.

So SV, why in the WORLD do you spend so much time disparaging Palm? What's the obsession all about?

Hey Palm! Where's my PDA with Wifi and phone capabilities?

RE: yay
twrock @ 6/9/2009 6:29:23 AM # Q
jca666us wrote:
BTW, what the hell was Palm thinking - the Pre should have definitely had a landscape keyboard. That chicklet keyboard is way too tiny.

I don't suppose my criticism of the keyboard is very valid, since I've never used one of that size. But I can't imagine how I could type on any keyboard that small with any accuracy. I have a hard enough time always hitting the right number on my dumbphone's number pad. (Which, by the way, has a terrible design; I'll pay much more attention to that next time I buy a phone.) I've never wanted a physical keyboard. But my use of an onscreen keyboard for my TX leaves me disappointed as well. And that's in landscape mode and fills almost the whole screen! So I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think it's the Pre's keyboard.

Hey Palm! Where's my PDA with Wifi and phone capabilities?
RE: yay
jca666us @ 6/10/2009 6:47:33 PM # Q
if only someone would make a device with a physical keyboard the size of apple's virtual one in landscape.
RE: yay
DarthRepublican @ 6/12/2009 6:49:58 AM # Q
Too large and too small are very subjective terms that vary widely with indiividual choice. I've been using my Pre for less than 24 hours and I'm already pretty comfortable with the keyboard. I'd be lying if I said I was as fast at typing with it as I was with my Treo 680 but I'm at least as accurate. The beast part of the Pre keyboard is that it makes one-handed typing possible again. This was a feature I had sorely missed when I was using the T-Mobile G1 as my regular phone. I've played with the iPhone keyboard many times and I've never felt comfortable with it. My Pre's keyboard felt comfortable almost immediately.
Screw convergence
Palm III->Visor Deluxe->Visor Platinum->Visor Prism->Tungsten E->Palm LifeDrive->Palm TX
Visor Pro+VisorPhone->Treo 180g->Treo 270->Treo 600->Treo 680->T-Mobile G1
http://mind-grapes.blogspot.com/
RE: yay
DarthRepublican @ 6/12/2009 6:55:06 AM # Q
So naturally I had to have a typo in a comment where I defend the Pre's keyboard....
Screw convergence
Palm III->Visor Deluxe->Visor Platinum->Visor Prism->Tungsten E->Palm LifeDrive->Palm TX
Visor Pro+VisorPhone->Treo 180g->Treo 270->Treo 600->Treo 680->T-Mobile G1
http://mind-grapes.blogspot.com/
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