Palm Pre FAQ
Gizmodo has an up-to-date Palm Pre FAQ.
Meanwhile:
PreCentral.net has rapid fire coverage specific to the device.
PrePoint is adding historical context, comparing the new OS to ACCESS and pointing to some of the things we DON’T know about the Pre.
Pre Community is discussing both the business and technical aspects of the Pre.
PalmPreView dug up more hints from the past about the Pre.
I expect that the official Palm Developer Blog will ramp up coverage quickly, too.
MacWorld 2009 Wish List
TUAW asks what I want to see at MacWorld. Check out their predictions. Here is my wish list in order. First is what I want most.
1. A Car PC experience for an Apple product. Voice navigation, Text-to-Speech for email and news, Voice Recorder, Traffic. App Store. This could be related to the rumored Tablet or maybe just a new interface for the iPhone…
2. 6″-9″ device. This should incorporate learnings from the iPhone, NetBooks and Mobile Internet Devices.
3. iPhone: Hulu and Netflix streaming.
4. iPhone: Background downloading of Podcasts, Twitter and Google Reader. If I understand correctly, the promised “push” functionality will be insufficient for these applications, but I’d love to be proven wrong.
5. iPhone: Copy/Paste
6. iPhone: Better calendar integration with Exchange.
7. iPhone: Email more than one photo at a time.
I’m not really in the market for an Apple TV or a Mac Mini, but there are definitely changes they could make to those devices that would make them hard to resist. The Apple Home Server product rumor is also interesting, but I’d be in wait and see mode. Especially after experiencing the flakiness of the Time Capsule product first hand this year.
GOOG 411 for Addresses in the Apple Carputer
In the upcoming Apple Carputer / Car PC, I hope the gps guidance system is as easy to use for finding addresses as Goog411 is for finding phone numbers.
Maybe if I keep talking about it as if it’s definitely going to be released, It will actually happen.
More on the Apple Carputer
Oppenheimer said: “We are working to develop new products that contain technologies that our competition will not be able to match. I cannot discuss these new products, but we are very confident in our product pipeline.”
I think that Apple can beat the competition so well because a) it builds the hardware and the software, b) it’s OS (OS X) has an unprecedented level of scalability in footprint, UI stretchability and power usage, c) the developer community supporting Apple is notoriously agile and loyal.
Yes, the tablet that people have been predicting for years will be fantastic when it arrives and I’ll certainly buy one, but the carputer could also be a huge win. Podcasts, Tivo for your radio, better and more integrated (with your macbook, phone and web) navigation, voice notes, etc… would be a good start. Wait ’till the App Store comes, though!!
Apple and the Carputer
Prediction: One of the new products from Apple over the next 2 years (maybe even their latest hint about a future product transition), will be a car pc.
My recent move bumped my commute from 5 minutes to 45 minutes and there are dozens of ways a carputer built right could make that time more productive and enjoyable (without risking anyone’s safety).
John Tokash 