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  1. Re:Ok...and? by ahoehn · · Score: 4, Informative · on Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either

    Plus, the summary does a pretty awful job of getting to the real story. I've been following the development thread and chat since the rooting of the Pre was first announced. The motivation for the development forum's choice to stop talking about tethering wasn't eagerness to avoid lawsuits, it was appreciation for the way that Palm engineers have been interacting with the "underground" community.

    Palm engineers have been involved in the unofficial dev forum threads and chat, dropping hints, giving the "hackers" knowledge that might have otherwise taken weeks or months for them to discover unaided.

    The big stories here are:
    1) Palm DIDN'T send a cease and desist. They nicely said, "Hey, if you want us to keep helping you out here, stop talking about tethering."

    2) The Pre Dev community is doing some amazing things, thanks to the fact that the Pre is essentially a little Linux box with a nifty GUI.

    3) It doesn't really matter that the affected wiki and forum aren't discussing tethering, since solutions have already been released elsewhere.

    Want to get involved yourself? Head over to the most active dev thread at Precentral.net, contribute to the Wiki, or join the chat at #webos-internals on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net).

  2. How about PdaNet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either

    PdaNet already supports some Palm phones: http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/. And, I heard somewhere that they are planning on porting their app to the Pre.

  3. Yay Copy&Paste... oh wait by Amorpheus_MMS · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Palm Pre Is Out, Time For Discussion

    No mention yet about Copy&Paste which the iPhone got a lot of comments about lacking, and was always brought up as a bonus for every other new phone.

    Here's how it works on the Pre: You can't copy text that you can't edit. No copying text from a website, or an SMS, or an email unless you reply and copy from there.
    http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/182854-copy-paste-you-kidding-me.html

  4. Re:Prepare to be blinded by markdavis · · Score: 2, Informative · on Palm Pre Reviewed

    > Actually it's a pretty useless website that doesn't do anything but mumble some useless facts.

    Um, welcome to Marketing 101.
    And, apparently, the number one use for Flash on websites. It seems that [generally] the more Flash a site or page has, the more useless the content is likely to be to the user.

    For *useful* information about the Palm Pre, I suggest going to http://www.precentral.net/ They are a little hyper to post just about everything known to man about the Pre, but there is no lack of useful information (and very little Flash :) )