The #1 HP webOS, TouchPad, Pre, and Veer Community Palm has updated the Pre for Verizon, slightly tweaking the hardware and upping the RAM available to run apps. The Pre Plus is exclusive to Verizon and in addition to the noted hardware updates, the Pre Plus also will have an innovative and crazy-cool piece of software available for it called "Mobile Hotspot," which turns the Pre Plus into a mobile WiFi router. The Palm Pre Plus arrives January 25th on Verizon, exclusively, for $149.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract. DreamPlug Small and robust, the DreamPlug can handle the most demanding tasks. Featuring the 1.2GHz Marvell Kirkwood 88F6281 processor, the Dream Plug provides PC-level performance with low power in a compact form factor. Drawing under 5 watts of power, compared to the average desktop PC at 175 watts, the DreamPlug offers potential energy cost savings of 96 percent.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical The Kickstarter is over, but if you missed out on backing us, not to worry. You can still join the thousands of other awesome Twine owners by pre-ordering on Supermechanical. It's the next best thing to being an original backer! Cargo-Bot, An Addictive iPad Game That Teaches Programming Concepts The key to learning to code is learning to think like a computer--which is a hard thing to do. "It requires structured thinking, ability to abstract details away, and there’s little margin for error--one little typo and your program might do something entirely different from what you wanted," says game developer Rui Viana. "The real world just doesn’t work like that, so it’s hard to get your head around it."
Two Years Later: The Amazing HTC HD2 It’s hard to believe just how much the smartphone space has changed since that phone, the HTC HD2, was released in November 2009, two years ago. It was one of the last Windows Mobile devices, but it eventually got ports for both Android and Windows Phone 7. With this active developer support and a thriving community, it went on to become the most popular device in xda-developers history, and was voted as the best HTC device of both 2009 and 2010 in our forums. Now, it’s November 2011, exactly two years later. Time to recapitulate the story of this extraordinary smartphone. How it came to be
How to get Jelly Bean on your Samsung Galaxy S3 If you've munched your way through Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and you're still craving the next sugary Android fix -- and can't wait for the software update to be dished out to your Samsung Galaxy S3 -- then read on. Jelly Bean (or Android 4.1, if you want to be all serious about it), was launched with the Google Nexus 7 tablet in July, and will arrive with UK Galaxy S3 users over the next few weeks. You can find out what it brings to your phone here. When it will officially reach your handset will depend on when your network gets around to rolling it out. Are you too impatient to hang around for them to pull their finger out?
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