Palm Pre Emulating an iPod to Accomplish iTunes Sync?

The news broke yesterday that Palm's anticipated Pre phone will seamlessly sync with iTunes for both Mac and Windows, allowing users to transfer non copy-protected content to the new Palm phone. While there has been speculation on how this had been ...

Palm Pre Emulating an iPod to Accomplish iTunes Sync

The news broke yesterday that Palm's anticipated Pre phone will seamlessly sync with iTunes for both Mac and Windows, allowing users to transfer non copy-protected content to the new Palm phone. While there has been speculation on how this had been ...

Official: McNamee Calls Palm Pre “iPhone for Ladies”

As Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak paid rapt attention (via Engadget), Palm’s new dynamic duo, Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee took turns amazing, informing, and stupefying the crowd at All-Things Digital’s D7 conference. Our sibling site, PreCentral.net has complete coverage, but from an iPhone perspective there were a few things worth drawing attention to…

The good: Ruby and Mac, straight and funny man respectively, were an awesome combination in the best, most comedic sense of the term. Palm should make sure their contracts say they need to co-host all future events. Presentation Gold. Ruby controlled the message and acted the responsible corporate governor while Mac was left to make outrageous claims and obfuscate the tough questions. And it worked brilliantly. Their opening video alone, which self-deprecatingly poked at Mac’s history of grandiose statements all the while letting him slip in even more jabs, such as the terminal “[Palm Pre] eats iPhone’s for breakfast.”

The bad: when demonstrating the previously mentioned Palm Pre hooks into sync, comments were made about Apple being “monopolistic”. Puh-leeze. Palm has an absolute right to make their own desktop client (they already make Palm Desktop for example). They don’t have the right to hook into Apple’s without license, even if Apple has the most popular media client on the planet. To make it simple for them, no matter how popular McDonald’s is, they have the right to serve their own fries with their Big Macs. Burger King DOES NOT have the right to set up a stall inside McDonald’s and hook up Whoppers next to the MacFries machine — unless McDonald’s says it’s okay.

Tangent: Telling Palm Pre users they can hook up and sync with iTunes, even if you specify “DRM free music, photos (?!), and videos” is all fun and games until a) users can’t transfer their iPhone apps and blame Apple, b) a routine (or not so) update to iTunes breaks Pre compatibility and users blame Apple.

The ugly: Great as Ruby and Mac were together, Ruby couldn’t stop Mac from fully inserting his foot into his mouth towards the end. In a painfully, painfully drawn-out exchange with Kara Swisher, Mac began by saying the Pre had a mirror for woman, which Swisher immediately took exception to. Unrelenting, Mac continued to press the point about women being an ignored segment of the market, then took exception to Swisher’s exception, and basically ended up writing the title for this here blog post, casting the Palm Pre as the “iPhone for Ladies” — insulting women and potentially turning off a segment of their male audience as well. Sad, given the great start to the show.

So that was the likely the last big Palm song and dance before release, and it was a mixed bag and perhaps a changing of the guard as well. A lot was made of Ruby’s pedigree — and we couldn’t help but notice that after Ruby’s comments that he basically rescued the Pre from resistive hell, Palm founder Ed Colligan was nowhere to be found. If the Palm Pre is Ruby’s iPhone, maybe we’ve just met the new iPalm?

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Official: McNamee Calls Palm Pre “iPhone for Ladies”

Zune HD Hands on Demo and Impressions

Gizmodo posted this hands on video of the upcoming Zune HD which is positioned to compete directly against the Apple iPod Touch.


According to the gadget site, the Zune HD is "tighter and more physically beautiful than the iPod ...

Next Gen iPhone Bezel Reveals Speaker & Color Changes?

iXpenseIt: iPhone App that helps you Manage your Finances on the Move

Review: Groceries for iPhone

This shopping list manager is a lovely application. Fast and simple to use, Groceries makes a trip to the supermarket a little more enjoyable.

13” MacBook Screens Quietly Upgraded in April

Computerworld digs up evidence that the 13" Aluminum MacBook appears to have gotten a quiet screen upgrade as of late April. The blog post references findings by MacRumors forum members fuz10n and hellfire88. Hellfire88 had access to both a Unibody...

Sirius-XM iPhone app coming ‘real soon’

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Sirius XM has revealed a screen shot of the soon to be released iPhone/iPod touch app that will stream the satellite channels to eager listeners. The image of the upcoming app was part of an SEC filing that was included in a PowerPoint presentation shown at a recent shareholder meeting.

The app, which is expected to be free, will require a US$3.00/month streaming subscription for current subscribers, and a US$13.00 monthly fee for non-subscribers. No specific release date is known, but it is thought to be very soon.

The company says the app will deliver music channels, sports, talk, news and comedy programming. We've already reported that Sirius had expected to offer the application this spring.

The satellite company has been in financial difficulties and has been losing subscribers faster than it is signing up new ones. The weak economy and drop off in new car sales are an especially tough environment to grow the business. The merger of XM and Sirius was generally thought to have been handled badly, and many people dropped their subscriptions, which has given a boost to internet radio and services like Pandora and Last.fm, although neither service is easily accessible in a car.

Sirius-XM iPhone app coming 'real soon' originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 28 May 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Sirius-XM iPhone app coming 'real soon' originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 28 May 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Next Gen iPhone Apple Logo Really Will Light Up?

Looks like some of those super-crazy iPhone 2,1 rumors might not have been so crazy after all. Or, at least, aren’t alone in their craziness. After some additional black-bezel rumors yesterday, today CrunchGear gives us a companion to the glowing Apple Logo rumor:

A tipster has seen the new matte iPhone and the bugger has a light-up Apple. That’s right: it lights the freak up.

Alrighty then. We go back to asking if it will multitask as a camera flash or notification light?

And what about that July 17 release date…

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Next Gen iPhone Apple Logo Really Will Light Up?

Verizon to get Palm Pre in six months

Verizon on Thursday announced that it plans to bring the Palm Pre to its network in six months, news that doesn't bode well for the Pre's launch partner, Sprint.

Mossberg: Apple “Point of Spear” in Web 3.0 Platforms. Oh, and Steve Jobs!

Yahoo! Finance is running some commentary from WSJ tech-guru Walt Mossberg and while everyone is quick to point out that Apple is not at his All-Things Digital D7 conference this year (that’s keeping all our sibling sites CrackBerry.com and PreCentral.net busy), they’re still the super smartphone in the room:

With the iPhone and iTouch, Apple is the “tip of the spear” when it comes to the next generation of handheld devices and what Mossberg is calling Web 3.0. The veteran tech journalist notes with awe the numbers Apple is putting up:

• 40M devices sold in 2 years
• 40K+ apps and 1 billion downloads in 10 months

That kind of excitement among developers, he says, hasn’t been seen since the arrival of PCs in the 80s and websites in the ‘90s.

Mossberg also, as per every statement Apple’s made to date, expects Steve Jobs back in late June. (Even as rumor has it Jobs paid a visit to Apple’s Cupertino headquarters as recently as yesterday!)

(Via MacDaily News)

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Mossberg: Apple “Point of Spear” in Web 3.0 Platforms. Oh, and Steve Jobs!

Report: Palm Pre syncs media with iTunes

Not only does the Palm Pre ape the iPhone’s Multi-touch features, word is it may also sync with iTunes just as if it were an iPhone or iPod.

Next gen iPhone icon shows no major physical changes?

A user on MacTalk forum has just discovered Apple’s icon for the next generation iPhone, but --as revealed by the screenshot below--  it looks pretty much the same as the icon for the current iPhone 3G. A MacTalk.com.au forum thread reveals that the unreleased "iPhone2,1" model that has been previously referenced ...

2009 Spring MacUpdate Bundle - 11+ Mac Apps for $49.99

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacUpdate to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least 11 Mac applications for $49.99 (a $521.71 value if all purchased separately) including:

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AT&T preparing for new iPhone launch with deployment of HSPA 7.2

AT&T has formally announced plans for deploying its 7.2 Mbps mobile data service upgrade this year, which will support faster iPhone models expected to be released this summer. AT&T said the upgrade to “High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology,” which delivers theoretical peak speeds twice that of the company’s current 3G network, will continue through [...]

Several firms see Apple selling current iPhone 3G for $99 as part of their new lineup

With more and more evidence pointing to Apple’s 2009 iPhone lineup consisting of three distinct models, the Royal Bank of Canada is the second investment firm to predict that one of those models will be a repackaged version of the existing 8GB iPhone 3G that will see its price tag lopped in half. Discoveries within betas [...]

Sonic The Hedgehog races onto iPhone

Sonic The Hedgehog for iPhone [iTunes link] was released today on the App Store. You can download Sonic for iPhone for $5.99 and start racing through various levels to free captured animals from the insidious Dr. Robotnik (more commonly known as Dr. Eggman). Sonic for iPhone was announced by Sega’s Director ...

iPhone 32GB listed “Coming Soon” at T-Mobile Austria

T-Mobile Austria have added a placeholder for the "iPhone 32GB", seemingly a version of the Apple smartphone with twice the storage of the current top-end model.  The handset appears under the carrier's "Coming soon" section, though without any image, detail of pricing or specific launch date. Clicking on the "Details" button ...

Apple reject Project Gutenberg app over Kama Sutra inclusion

Apple have again inflamed the App Store censorship debate, by rejecting an ebook reader application through which it was possible to search for - and view - classic text The Kama Sutra.  The app, Eucalyptus, shows text-only versions of out-of-copyright books from the Project Gutenberg archive. The App Store reviewer, finding ...