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An iPhone? No way! On Verizon? Where?!?


There are several major different selling points of the iPhone. The biggest one in my opinion -
IT JUST WORKS.
No need to unlock and flash a custom ROM, no need to soft-reset, Just click your app and BOOM – it opens. Now I will admit that there are several major problems with the iPhone like the OS, the network, the battery being fixed, no hardware ...

iPhone multi-tasking concept borrows heavily from webOS


If you thought the activity cards metaphor used to manage multitasking on webOS was unique, think again, as it could very easily be looked at as an extension of Apple’s iTunes-originated Cover Flow. While we do fully believe that webOS was not developed with an eye on the less-than-spectacular iTunes interface, there’s no denying the flipping through items aspect that bridges Cover Flow and webOS. ...

webOS and Android tie for #2 customer satisfaction behind iPhone




CFI Group consulting firm recently released a new report detailing customer satisfaction in the smartphone sector, ranking the iPhone at the top with Android and webOS-running Pre a close second. The survey of 1074 smartphone users ...

How Palm Re-Enabled iTunes 9.01 Sync with webOS 1.2.1




Palm re-enabled iTunes sync with webOS 1.2.1 by continuing their trend of making the Pre look like an iPod. Palm's webOS 1.0 hack had the Pre mimic an iPod Nano. webOS 1.1 re-enabled it by setting its USB Vendor ID to Apple's. webOS ...

Mozilla coders join Palm, apparently jabbing Apple

Two prominent Web-based programming advocates have left Mozilla for Palm, arguing that the time has come to use browsers to bypass Apple's controlling role in mobile applications.
Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, who help run the Ajaxian site for elaborate Web interfaces and who worked on Mozilla's Web-based Bespin tool for collaborative programming, announced their move to Palm on Friday. ...