Since GDC 2010 is approaching fast, rumours have started flying around that Palm will making some big announcements this time. Most exciting is that of them reliving a platform/app which would make it very easy for developers to port their iPhone apps to WebOs platform.
Well if this is true then it can be really be a game changer and would really turn around the tables in the Palm Pre market share. As even after being a great smartphone, Palm Pre is not able to see the apps market get going which is inturn turning away the customers from it.
I really hope this becomes true and Palm Pre owners will soon be having thousands of apps to play around with.
Last CES Palm Pre was launched and there had been talks of new Palm Pre coming this CES. And the rumors were true indeed. Yesterday Palm launched 2 new devices Palm Pre plus and Palm Pixi plus.
New Palm Pre features a improved keyboard, is more snappier and memory storage has been bumped to 16gb.
Here are 2 videos showing the Palm Pre plus in action :
Gaming scene on Palm Pre took its little time to take off but now things are getting changed very fast as both Quake and hardware accelerated has been ported on Palm Pre. And they look pretty good, it also proves the fact that developers are indeed taking interest in Palm Pre game development and we can very well expect some very good games coming its way.
Please note that both are homebrewed apps and are not available in the official app store.
Precorder is a Palm Pre app homebrew Pre community. Its in alpha stage but does the job well if you want to record a video on Palm Pre.
Video streams are available in Mpeg-4, H.263, H.264/AVC and for audio you have the options from AAC, AMRNB, MP3. The video containers are either mp4 or 3GP.
Here is a sample video from Palm Pre using Precorder App :
In all its a pretty handy Free video recording app for Palm Pre and you can have fun with it. More updates should be coming on the app in later time. For downloading/installing the app, check out it official webpage.
If you happen to come across the abode’s flash player page while browsing from Palm Pre, you will be greeted with a message saying the Flash 10.1 is coming to webOS in first half of 2010. Hence the 2 Palm devices based on webOS platform, Palm Pre and Palm Pixi will be getting the update.
