Palm at CES 2010: 3D Games, Video webOS 1.4, Recording, Verizon, and PreCentral -- The Competition

By Rene Ritchie
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While I look for iPhone stuff at CES, Dieter and the PreCentral.net crew went over to Palm's presentation, and got the goods on 3D gaming, video recording, Verizon, and more -- PreCentral.net's Here are the highlights:

Check it out and let us know what you think. Big news for Palm? Too incremental? Competitive enough for 2010?

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11 Comments
  • It looks, to me, like they are trying to shoehorn some ports of games in from the likes of EA since that kind of thing has glaringly been absent since launch. However, the plug-in program is a far cry from a powerful SDK that fosters a lot of innovation from smaller developers like the iPhone SDK does.
  • "However, the plug-in program is a far cry from a powerful SDK that fosters a lot of innovation from smaller developers like the iPhone SDK does."
    Could you explain where you got this idea? The new SDK is based on the SDL with OpenGL|ES support. It's tools and languages people are already familiar with.
  • @UntidyGuy
    are u serious?? These are direct ports even the description in the catalog is the same as the iPhone app store!! It mentions "for iPhone and iPod touch" lol. Webos looks really good now. I'll wait for pre plus to hit sprint before I dump AT&T Or maybe pre plus on AT&T except i can save like 50 bucks per month on sprint!
  • good news for my second favorite company! but palm i know the pre 2 is do in june on sprint so who in the world is gonna buy the pre plus.
  • Palm really impressed me today. Good to see.
  • Ah, the Pre grows up and becomes the PreGS we always knew it could ;). Seriously, Rubinstein, did you have to follow the Apple path so exactly? Web apps only, no hardware access, then next event - oh, hey, native apps with access to hardware! I mean, granted, he did work on the iPhone, but the guy is being very literal in trying to recreate the success of the iPhone at Palm.
  • I AM 100 % SURE NOW TO SAY THIS PALM PRE HAS NOTHING TO ENVY IPHONE ANY MORE AND EVERY TIME IS BETTER
    A GOOD ADVISE FOR APPLE WOULD BE THAT THEY SHOULD START SELLING IPHONES AN VERIZON AND SPRINT AS WELL TMOBILE OR OR THEY GONNA GET SCREW BY PALM AND GOOGLE
  • @OSCAR
    DO YOU GO AROUND YELLING ALL THE TIME? I can't even read your post because it is very annoying.
  • It's really looking like Apple is the one with catching up to do. Apps will catch up (enough) on other platforms.
    If i'm going to keep paying a premium to stay with iphone, it needs to be kept worthwhile. Multitasking, better notifications, ability to customize, improved screen, an answer for flash, better BT, etc.
    This is a year we really got no updates with iphone. 3.1 still. No features added.
  • palm should come out with new phones every TWO years so that customers will continue to stick with them. Not a smart choice doing it so soon.
  • @brian
    Are you kidding me? I had to re-read your post several times to make sure I didn't misinterpret it. It's because they don't make me wait two years for a new model that I am sticking with them.
    Sprint let's premier customers (all Pre and Pixi customers are automatically premier customers after 3 months) upgrade phones after just 1 year.
    I am ecstatic that when the Pre2 hits Sprint this summer I will be eligible.