The Palm Pre will support iTunes syncing out of the box. This is great news because it offers a stella way to manage videos and music, but of course protected content will not be supported. Songs can also be purchased over the air via the Amazon MP3 store. Palm has demonstrated some new features of the Pre at D7 and PIC has written up a summary of what was shown- there is mass storage, Twitter is heavily built in to the OS and the app catalogue will be available at launch, albeit with not too many titles.
Google has said that there will be 18 Android powered devices on the market in 2009. This is an impressive number, but there will be variences in how the OS will be installed. More at Android Community. The hugely popular Evernote is now available for BlackBerry Curve 83xx devices. This creates a huge new market for Evernote and it will surely be as successful on BlackBerry as it is everywhere else.
Sony Ericsson has launched the Satio which comes with a 12.1MP camera, 3.5″ widescreen, Symbian Foundation OS and many other consumer targetted features. A lite version of Hero of Sparta is now available in the App Store which is good news if you are concerned about the asking price. Don’t forget that Astraware’s Platypus has also been made lite this week.
In PDA-247 news, I have taken all of the comments made about the new design onboard and am discussing some tweaks that can be made to the site design which will hopefully make things easier to read. News will be light over the weekend due to a trip, but next week you can expect another Windows Mobile smartphone review (this new device is so cute!) and the usual news, banter and questions. If you have ideas for future content, please get in touch via shaun (at) mailstm.co.uk.
There’s a load of wingeing fanboys on macrumors complaining that the Pre syncing with iTunes must be patent infringement. But I’ve synced with iTunes via the missing sync before, and via a USB device plug in so it’s not new. It is very convenient however.