Dear Palm: What I’d like in the next update
We know that webOS and the Palm Pre are 1.0 1.1 products, so we’re going to cut you some slack for now. But that slack is starting to run out, and looking at the competition there are some areas where I think you could improve the Pre to both catch up to and leap frog over iPhone and BlackBerry and Android. So here’s what I'd like to see in the way of software updates before that slack runs out and the real complaining starts.
My list is after the break, and it’s by no means comprehensive. Feel free to sound off in the comments if there’s something you think should be added in!
Oh, and Palm, this isn't an ultimatum or anything. It's a wishlist. Of stuff I want. So consider it a shopping list, and you're the grocery store. Some things we can do without, but others are staple items that we need to get through the week, and if you don't have it, we might have to go across town to the other grocery to get it. After a while, that can get kind of old and we might consider just going to the other store. We don't want to, as it's simply not as nice, but they have a lot of what we need.
Six More Apps in the Official App Catalog
Palm is feeling their Wheaties today, they just added six more apps to the official App Catalog. Let's see what we got:
- Shabbat Shalom helps those of the Jewish faith (or those merely interested) know candle lighting times
- Kosher2Go is a YARF (Yet Another Restaurant Finder) that specializes in finding Kosher restaurants
- ESPN Zoom is one of those picture apps where you find the differences between two photos. This is not the first app we expected to see with ESPN branding, but whatever
- Bubbles! is your standard fare bubble pop game, not unlike Pre Dot Pop found in our Homebrew Forums
- Mileage Monitor monitors your gas mileage
- Word Ace "combined the betting and strategy of Texas Hold'em and the mental challenge of a word game." It's also good to note that it was featured at preDevCamp!
Nice adds, Palm. Keep 'em coming! Incidentally, we added six apps to our Homebrew App Gallery today too, three RPGS from moblyng, LDS Scriptures, MortCalc, and PreCandy.
Thanks, ragazzopigro!