Palm Apps Pass 30 Million Downloads!

More power to the Palm!

I’ve given a lot of heat to the lack of Apps since the release last year.  Frankly it was way to slow.  However, webOS is starting to take off, despite the troubles of Palm.  Now all they need to do is licence the OS so that more folks will develop for it.

Congrats Palm.  You don’t look a day older than 20 million downloads.

41 New Palm Apps Hit the App Catalog

A heavy dose of translation apps to boot.

There are almost too many to list, you can either navigate on over via your Pre, or click to their website to see all of the Palm webOS apps.  Unfortunately, Palm hasn’t yet figured out how to offer those visiting the opportunity to just see what’s new.  C’mon Palm!

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Leave a comment on Palm’s Facebook page (of course that will get your inbox flooded every time someone else enters…), but hey for a Pixi or Pre, why not.  Be sure to leave your comment telling Palm which handset you’d prefer by November 14th, 2009.  Winners selected randomly.

You can enter and leave a comment here on their Facebook page.

The official Rules are very lengthy but they’re there if you need them.

Palm Apps Now Online

Even non-Palm webOS owners can now view the small library online.

We keep ribbing Palm for their lack of apps, and lack of top tier apps, but they are certainly starting to make moves.  They have now learned from Apple and RIM to start placing their app collection online.  Now normally this is a brilliant move, but in this case, the lack of killer apps makes this move a little scary.  Well it is getting close to Halloween.

You can check out the good here: LINK

New Palm Apps Hit

Over twenty new paid apps hit the App Catalog!

I just paid for and downloaded the new Tweed (which by the way is well worth the $1.99), and happened to check again.  To my surprise a ton of new apps hit the store.

Hebrew Calendar $2.99
ColorClip $0.99
Tank Tracker $1.99
Golf Caddie $9.99
Peg IQ $0.99
ptHealth $.4.99
FMCaltrain $2.99
ELLE Astrology $2.99
ActiveCard $4.99
dkGoogleVoice $2.99 (our next download)
The Surprise $0.99
Sudoku Classic $2.99
Dealert $1.99
Brick $0.99
I’m Here $0.99
Phone Home $0.99
Pop Blocks $0.99
Screamager $0.99
Unit Converter $0.99
Chameleon $0.99
LaunchPad Speed $0.99

More updates to follow…

Palm Pre webOS App of the Day - Tweed

Get your twitter on.

Is a pretty basic free app in the Palm App Catalog.  You can however have multiple Twitter accounts and the UI is very clean and straight forward.

There’s not really a lot of bells and whistles with this app, but there’s also not a lot of Twitter options yet on the Pre.  That said, it’s still incredibly easy to post, send and read direct messages, review your bookmarks, Tweets and more.  It just plain works and that’s fine by us.  Count us happy Tweed users on the Palm.

8 Million Downloads of Palm Apps

...and there are only about 125 of them available.

That’s a pretty impressive number of downloads on what amounts to a rather small amount of apps even available.  For comparison, there’s about 90,000 iPhone apps, and about 10,000 Android apps. 

With the amount of apps being downloaded, and knowing that there really aren’t a lot of great choices out there yet (WordAce and several others being exceptions), Palm can have a real hit on their hands if they can only get more apps, and good/great apps to the App Catalog.

You can read the entire press release on the Palm webOS Dev page

Memory Too Full (Palm) Fix Coming Soon?

Why limit app installation space?

PreCentral has been reporting that there is a limit as to how many apps you can install on your Palm Pre.  As we’ve said numerous times before, it’s the apps stupid!  It’s not necessarily the hardware or even the OS.  Ultimately it’s the wealth and diversity and worthwhile apps that will move hardware (phones).  Why would any manufacturer limit App space?  Sure Apple has done that with a limit to the number of app windows, but still there’s a lot of apps allowed.  (Frankly Apple should remove this limit!). 

According to PreCentral, it looks as though Palm is finally awake to smell the coffee and version 1.3 may address this app shortcoming.  Now if only we can get some really cool apps to the App Catalog I’d be happy!

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