Review: SPE Side Pouch
The Smartphone Experts Side Pouch Case for the Palm Pre is a low-profile, leather belt pouch to keep your Pre at the ready and protected. Like it’s vertical cousin the Top Pouch, the Side Pouch is a rather standard-fare magnetic closure hip case, though in this case it is arranged in the horizontal orientation.
The Side Pouch was designed specifically for the Pre, so the fit is snug without being too tight. And like most SPE products, the Side Pouch is solidly constructed with care taken to wrap all leather edges under themselves before stitching the whole thing together.
AOL working on getting into Synergy sync
It was several weeks ago that we discovered the building blocks for AOL support inside webOS, but we also knew that getting that support was contingent upon action from both AOL and Palm. Well, recently AOL released a huge update to their sync services, adding 70 new devices to the list. The Pre was not on that list, so PreCentral member and Twitter user Bill decided to ask AOL for Synergy support. Their answer: we’re working on it.
AOL Sync is powered by Funambol, an open source synchronization and push email service. Currently Funambol is supported on over two billion devices, including the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones, though Palm has not updated the Pre to support Funambol. Doing so would not only bring AOL Sync to the table, but would also enable corporations to easily set up a push email and synchronization server without having to deal with Microsoft Exchange of BlackBerry Enterprise Server.