App Catalog for the Palm Pre

Application reviews, this video will show you the App Catalog for the Palm Pre.

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Transcript

App Catalog for the Palm Pre What’s up guys? Its Jon Rettinger here and I want to give you a demonstration of the Palm Pre App Catalog. This is a kin to the iPhone’s app store or Blackberry’s app world. So, let’s get started. Go to launcher and there it is right there App Catalog. You can also see how long it takes for the application to open on the Pre as well. So, here we are in the App Catalog you can see very clearly and letting you know that this is still in Beta and it’s broken up by feature and popular, although they are not that many apps in here so they are featured and the most popular or really just the same applications mode mostly. You can sort by Most Recent, Top Rate, Lifestyle, Entertainment, News, Utilities, Social Networking, Food, Communications, Productivity, Games, Movies and Tag Cloud which is really just viewing all applications. So, they really aren’t that many in here right now. They are less than 20 and these are all actually web apps for certainly you need to be connected to the internet either via EVDO or Wi-Fi to really use almost any of these applications. So, let me go ahead and show you and actually as you can see are web apps. You really can’t tell they seem very close net of applications, so let’s go ahead and download one I’ll show you how that works, so if you use the Game connect for I still love that when I was a kid, so let’s give that a download. So, it opens up you can rate it by stars I’ll give you brief download about it. You can click try it or you can go ahead and download it right away, so let’s go ahead and download, and I’m connected via Wi-Fi right now. As you can see I’ll click that it’s actually a very, very quick download. And as it’s downloading there is an X to that right of app progress bar and let you know that you can cancel as you go. It’s loading the application and that’s it. It’s loaded. You can tap to launch, but let me show you where they show up. I’ll go ahead and throw that away and they show up really right on that first launcher screen, so here we have connect it for and see what it looks like that for by —. You can try a multi-player features. They really look just like net of applications that you find on the iPhone or the Blackberry that actually is really impressive for what Palm did here. So, one really cool app that I downloaded that I want to show you guys is something called the Classic. You may have had an old Palm device maybe Treo 600 and Treo 6B50 maybe even one of the older Palm Pilots, but what you’re going to see here is going to look familiar to you. It actually emulates the old Palm OS maybe you had a Centro that you upgrade to the Pre 2 regardless this should look very familiar to you. And it is a full functioning Palm Classic operating system. You could have install applications on here it will grow to really as big as you want it too limited only by the internal memory on the Pre. Install applications when you plug your prints in your fifth year. You set it up as an external hard drive and you just drag applications right in and they will install automatically. If you have a license with an older Palm Classic device that won’t be a problem you can actually transfer the licenses right into this application. It’s very cool or it works just as well, so here is the calculator and go back home. You’ve got Tasks and by the way just seeing this old Classic operating system at least it can let you appreciate how far the Pre has come from what was Palm’s really only OS app until yesterday. And let’s see you’ve got a virtual Depad you can control and move along you can your contacts in here. Soon you can’t make calls from this but it is just a emulation program, so we’ll close out of that and let’s go back to the App Catalog. And here we are back in the App Catalog. I’m going to run through and show you everything that’s available right now. There aren’t that many. It also has some —here you can see some notification popping out if I have just an email that came through. We’ll check out the Tag Cloud. You can see from all the different tags that they have which is very similar to what you would find on most web pages or a WordPress page. This is kind of one of the ways that you can see that there’s really is a web operating system. Here’s the App Catalog and to go back you just use this gesture and swipe back, so let’s take a look at the Most Recent application. You can see sort of what’s in here. And I’ll just scroll through them quickly and you can take a look and read them yourself, but there’s some AccuWeather, there’s some Twitter applications, there is Fandango, there’s New York, there’s some Games in here, the associated Press, there’s a couple of Twitter clients and of course there is the Classic application which by the way is free for seven days then you have to buy it. And of course, what App Catalog or App store will be complete without a Sudoku game that is almost a requirement, so I’ll go back, take out some of the Top Rated apps see if they are different. Really is a highlight it by Pandora Radio which is very cool. You can go through and see all of these. Most of them are the same. They aren’t that many apps that are released. The STK that was given to developers, it was even though a little bit late, and for you to understand it wasn’t as complete as some developers would have like. So, hopefully down the road this will open up and there will be as many apps as they are found on other platforms, certainly Palm may go the road of Apple when the Apple initially only offered the STK for web apps and then open it up to native applications Palm may go that same route with the Pre. Once they give you guys a demonstration of the Palm Pre’s App Catalog I hope you enjoy. For exclusive content, check me out on Twitter, Twitter.com/Jon4lakers, and if you have any Pre question you can go ahead and ask me those over there. I will see you in the next video. Bye- bye.