Just a week after Apple outed iTunes 8.2.1, with its lofty claim to “disable devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre,” Palm has shot back. A new update for the Palm Pre puts iTunes syncing back on the menu and signals open, all–out warfare between the rival camps. Keep reading to see just how Palm’s squaring up to Apple.
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Palm Pre users are restricted to the US at the moment, where the Pre’s preference for CDMA networks allows it to work just fine. Those waiting for a release in GSM-land got a boost the other day when a real-live Palm Pre showed up in Vietnam, rocking a GSM SIM card.
The Palm Pre just got another little update to its webOS operating system. webOS 1.0.4 fixes a number of security problems and bugs in the OS, but has the unfortunate side-effect of stopping homebrew developers from installing their apps.
Palm and Apple have both issued slightly passive-aggressive statements on the subject of the Palm Pre’s support for Apple’s iTunes software.
Palm Pre owners who don’t fancy trusting all their data to the ‘Cloud’ will be able to get their sync on using old favourite The Missing Sync which has just announced a Palm Pre edition.
The Palm Pre looks a lot more hackable and open than the iPhone, early adopters have found. The new Palm phone makes it easy to add custom firmware and the potential for custom versions of Palm’s webOS is huge.
The Palm Pre will be arriving in Europe slightly earlier than we reported. The first Palm Pre batch should go on sale by the end of September.