WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers
Hardly the most exciting Palm news you’re gonna hear this week, but the company that still owns itself for the time being has just updated its WebOS software on Verizon to the extremely granular version 1.4.1.1. The helpful changelog informs us there are no new apps, but pinch-zoom now works correctly in Doc and PDF views, a lag in the camera shutter sound has been rectified, and forwarding videos uploaded to YouTube on to your friends via email has also been made to work as it should. The most important fix of all, though, is to a keyboard input issue whereby a single key press would generate a letter twice — both Pre Central and one of our readers report that this problem appears to have been consigned to the past. Good stuff, now let’s see it go global, shall we?
[Thanks, subzero and Sam F.]
WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: April 29th, 2010
at 7:58am by Vladislav Savov
Topics: FirmwareUpdate, MobileOs, OperatingSystem, OsUpdate, Palm pre, PalmPixiPlus, PalmPre, PalmPrePlus, PixiPlus, PrePlus, SoftwareUpdate, VerizonWireless, firmware, firmware update, mobile os, operating system, os, os update, palm, palm pixi plus, palm pre plus, pixi plus, pre plus, software, software update, update, verizon, verizon wireless, vzw, webos
Samsung announces Bada mobile OS, SDK sets sail in December
Because what the world needs now is yet another mobile operating system, Samsung has announced its foray into the field with Bada. Not much to reveal at this point other than some key PR speak: the name means “ocean” in Korean, the company’s committed to “a variety of open platforms” in mobile industry and it plans this to be easy to integrate / customize based on carrier’s experience. All real news should be coming sometime in December, when Sammy is saying it’ll have a London launch event and reveal the SDK. Full presser after the break.
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Samsung announces Bada mobile OS, SDK sets sail in December originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: November 10th, 2009
at 12:21am by Ross Miller
Topics: Mobile, MobileOs, OperatingSystem, bada, mobile os, ocean, operating system, os, platform, samsung
Android 1.6 retrofitted onto Samsung Q1 UMPC (video)
Too busy to bother with buying an Android-powered Archos 5? Then you’re probably way too busy to bother with this here hack. But just in case you’ve got a morning you can wipe clean and a few afternoons where you can scoot out early, it’s apparently possible to load up an Android 1.6 port onto one’s Samsung Q1 UMPC. Kevin at jkOnTheRun did just that over a relaxing weekend, and while he’s still struggling to get the touchscreen to act right, most everything else seems to be humming along sans issue. Eager to see if it’s something you’d be into? Hop on past the break and mash play — it’s twelve minutes in heaven, ladies.
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Android 1.6 retrofitted onto Samsung Q1 UMPC (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 20th, 2009
at 9:41am by Darren Murph
Topics: Android, Android1.6, DIY, OperatingSystem, SamsungQ1, android 1.6, google, hack, operating system, os, q1, q1up, samsung, samsung q1, umpc, video, x86
Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro: big cat’s faster, 7 is better for games
CNET have taken the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard for a spin around a 2008 MacBook Pro, and produced a decent first peek at comparative performance. Of course, there are significant provisos to get through first — it’s only one machine, running on Apple’s drivers, testing mostly Apple applications, and the two systems default to different versions of QuickTime — but we can still glean some indication of where the two heavyweights are relative to one another. Snow Leopard appeared consistently quicker in time-based tests, with faster bootups, shutdowns and MP3 encoding, but Windows 7 showed its muscle in producing better frame rates in games and a significant advantage in Cinebench rendering. Battery life was found to be distinctly better under Snow Leopard, but we’d put that down to the underlying hardware being optimized for OS X. Hit the read link for the full testing procedures and more of those old school bar charts — it should get you well prepped for the forthcoming flood of similar head-to-heads once WIndows 7 officially ships next week.
[Via Apple Insider]
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Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro: big cat’s faster, 7 is better for games originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 16th, 2009
at 3:33pm by Vladislav Savov
Topics: Apple, Benchmarks, BootTimes, MacBook Pro, MacbookPro, Microsoft, OperatingSystem, OperatingSystems, OsX, OsX10.6, SnowLeopard, SpeedTest, Windows7, benchmark, boot times, operating system, operating systems, os, os x, os x 10.6, snow leopard, speed test, win7, windows 7
MorphOS for Amiga adds Mac mini support, someone in Europe is delighted
Amiga owners are a loyal bunch. And they have to be — stuck with a machine frozen in time (even if OS 5 was claimed to be “better than OS X”) and little in the way of support, the manner in which they’ve stubbornly stuck with the platform over the years can only be described as a labor of love. If you’ve been wondering what all the fuss is about but no longer have a PowerPC-based Amiga system handy, the MorphOS Dev Team has just announced that its latest — MorphOS 2.4 — now supports Mac mini G4 machines. Available now, you can either hit the read link to download for yourself, or wait until the upcoming Amiga user group meeting in Bad Bramstedt, Germany. You know, whatever you find more convenient. As for us, we’re going to go play a game of Ooops Up! for old time’s sake.
[Thanks, Antti Jarvinen]
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MorphOS for Amiga adds Mac mini support, someone in Europe is delighted originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 15th, 2009
at 7:07am by Joseph L. Flatley
Topics: AmigaOs, Mac Mini, MacMini, Open Source, OpenSource, OpenSourceOs, OperatingSystem, amiga, amiga os, morphos, open source os, operating system
