Palm Pre coming to Spain on Telefonica on October 14
The European operators are really liking mid-October for their Pre launches, and that trend continues now that Spain’s Telefonica has unveiled an October 14 availability date for Spain’s very first webOS device. The phone’s being offered on plans that will bring the cost of the handset itself down to anywhere between €0 and €219 (about $322) — and if you’re wondering exactly what you have to do to get it for absolutely free, well, you’ll be shelling out €60 or more a month in voice plus €15 in data. You’ll be able to pick it up both online and in your friendly local Telefonica shop, so it’ll be interesting to see if any lines start forming — just how many Palm fanatics are their in Spain, anyway?
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Palm Pre coming to Spain on Telefonica on October 14 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Palm pulls paid apps due to major bug allowing free app downloads
After mere hours of App Catalog-stravaganza, the paid apps have been removed for the time being by Palm due to a major flaw in purchase verification. From what we’ve gathered from the seedy underbelly of the internet, an exploit involving building your own dummy application with the same name as a paid application allowed folks to download a free “update” to these falsified shells and score for-purchase apps galore without dropping a cent. Whether or not this was the only exploit afoot we’re not sure, but it sounds like plenty of folks found ways to nab apps for free because Palm has clamped down hard on distribution for the time being. Optimistically, the company claims it should have the Catalog back up by tomorrow morning, but if the failure is really as severe as it sounds, we won’t be holding our breath.
Update: And… they’re back.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in; picture courtesy of glamajamma]
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Palm pulls paid apps due to major bug allowing free app downloads originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009
at 1:02am by Paul Miller
Topics: AppCatalog, PaidApps, app catalog, apps, paid apps, palm, pre, webos
Palm throws the doors open: review-free app distribution over the web, open source developers can hop in for free
Well, things just got interesting. The very evening of the App Catalog’s launch of paid apps, Palm has made a very different kind of announcement: it’s going to let developers skip out on the App Catalog if they so choose. Devs will be able to submit an app to Palm, who will turn around and give them a URL for open distribution of the app over the web — without a review process getting in the way! The App Catalog will still exist for those who want to use it of course, with a $50 entrance fee to get an app inside — and we’re guessing it’ll remain the only way to distribute paid apps — but the new URL distribution should decentralize things just a little bit. In other good news, Palm will be dropping the $99 annual developer fee for folks building open source apps, and hopefully that free ride applies to App Catalog entry as well, though now there’s web distribution to make it less of a sticking point. Palm’s also going to open up its analytic data to developers, and even is giving away Pres and Touchstones to the audience members of the little shindig privy to this announcement — clearly the company is making a strong play for developers, and who doesn’t like to be loved?
[Thanks, Lawrence]
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Palm throws the doors open: review-free app distribution over the web, open source developers can hop in for free originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 6th, 2009
at 12:47am by Paul Miller
Topics: AppCatalog, AppDistribution, BreakingNews, app, app catalog, app distribution, apps, breaking news, mojo, palm, pre, sdk, webos
Paid apps now live in webOS App Catalog, Air Hockey comes first
The first paid apps are finally starting to filter into Palm’s App Catalog, giving us all another great reason (after our daily caffeine fix has been properly handled, of course) to blow a buck or two every day of our lives. First up is none other than Air Hockey, an app genre that seems to be taking every platform by storm — we never really thought that the true Dynamo experience could translate well to a couple of fingers on a phone’s display, but we’re just $1.99 away from finding out for sure.
[Thanks, Joe]
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Paid apps now live in webOS App Catalog, Air Hockey comes first originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 5th, 2009
at 5:25pm by Chris Ziegler
Topics: AirHockey, AppCatalog, BreakingNews, PaidApps, air hockey, app catalog, breaking news, paid, paid apps, palm, webos
Palm Couldn’t Pick a Better First Paid webOS App Than Air Hockey? [Palm]
The first webOS paid app is Air Hockey, coming in at $1.99. It might not be a mindblowing game, but Rome wasn’t built by Air Hockey apps (or something). [Palm via Engadget]
Posted: October 5th, 2009
at 4:48pm by Jason Chen
Topics: Palm apps, Palm pre, Webos apps, Webos paid apps, apps, paid apps, palm, pre, software, webos
