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What's New in webOS 1.3.1
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: q$ @% T) a0 L1 ~6 v0 OWhat's New in webOS 1.3.1 By Dieter Bohn | Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 | 51 comments » 4 F; y. j/ t, ?' i4 ~: ?& ]7 ?
3 m6 _5 T" z7 C( M# g2 DWhat'snew in webOS 1.3.1? In a nutshell, Yahoo Synergy, tweaks to themessaging app (forwarding!), adjustments to PIN settings, someimprovement to the music player, some performance improvements (butnothing that will blow your mind), and some underpinnings for thingslike the Facebook app and the ability the change default apps.7 q! ^1 } x0 G: z4 Y5 X: g
What's not new? Most of the rest of the OS, including Media Sync not working with iTunes 9.0.2.9 r5 B7 b& P2 H* i( W
Want to know more? Follow us after the break!
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; `8 F9 K6 ^! n- M6 A1 ]; QYahoo in Synergy The biggest feature in webOS 1.3.1 is that Yahoohas been added to Synergy, meaning that you can now sync your contacts,calendar, email, and IM buddies list from the service. YahooIM also nowworks in webOS for everybody (instead of the strangely lucky few).I'm no longer a heavy Yahoo user so I can't comment extensively on it,but I did hook up my old account and it seems to work. The ability toswitch between SMS and multiple types of IM in the same threadedmessage view is as grand as it ever was.
& w" U. U$ j2 \; L As an aside, at thispoint we are in serious need to a unified Synergy preferences app.Adding and managing accounts is spread across Contacts, Calendars,Email, Tasks, and Messaging. More granular control is necessary - Iwant contacts from three of them, just IM on some of them, just emailfrom another, and so on. A feature I'd like to see Palm steal fromGoogle is more control over which contacts are pulled in fromFacebook (and I'll add LinkedIn): the ability to only sync contactsthat are already present in your address book. Palm's given us thetools to suck in a huge amount of data from the cloud, now we needtools to better manage that information.# @# L/ Z0 S* N+ K
' w: T2 p# E/ b) j# B User Interface Features Tapping on a text message or IM pops up a menu to allow you to forward, copy text, or delete a single message. Hooray? Hooray!6 K0 ?! i2 e* N0 T
In the music player, when you hold your finger down on the fast forward or rewind button, a 'scrubber' pops up so you can drag it along to the part of the song or podcast you're looking for. Glad to see this finally arrive.
/ w- W& K3 i0 Z- }) [( \ In the category of often-request features, there are improvements to the PIN behavior.You can now set your PIN to be any arbitrary length (I stopped at 20digits). More importantly, there is now a "Lock After" feature you canset anywhere from "Screen turns off" to 30 minutes.
+ E% u- E: U! O4 x3 ~4 c There are now placeholder images for flash elementson web pages instead of big blank spaces. If those flash elements areYouTube videos, there is a nice preview image that you can click on toview the video in the YouTube app. (This blogger is pleased that he nolonger will need to manually insert a YouTube link on every YouTubevideo). Full Flash support, as we reported yesterday, will come in "early 2010."; W0 D y* h( V
webOS 1.3.1 does not fix iTunes Sync. Make of that what you will.
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Under the Hood Palm has also told me that the 'underpinnings' necessary for the Facebook app are also in 1.3.1. That app is notincluded on the device by default (a mistake, in my opinion), but onceyou have a device that's been updated to 1.3.1, you can get it from theApp Catalog. A full review of the Facebook app can be found here.
0 g ^( O5 y, J+ G# W Speaking of the App Catalog, it now filters appsso only the apps that are compatible with the Pixi appear there. If youhave apps backed up to your Palm Account (i.e. if you're switching),they will re-download, even if they're not Pixi compatible - seeDerek's post for more on this. Not Pixi compatible as of this writing: the Classic PalmOS emulator.8 h; n2 Q/ q' K/ q- c1 C
One thing I'm excited to see is a new option in the Launcher called "Default Apps" that, while grayed out now, someday will allow you to choose which apps handle the following:6 Z1 H7 G! I8 O7 ~" a' _" \
- Phone Numbers (Hello Improved Google Voice Integration!)
- Addresses (Defaults to Google Maps, theoretically you could send them to Sprint Nav)
- Email Addresses (Somebody write me a real Gmail client posthaste)
- Web Links (Hi Apple, Palm's cracking the door open for alternative browsers like Opera Mini.)
Thesame screen also lets you set the default app for a large array of fileextensions, opening the door for alternative music players, videoplayers, document editors, etc.$ p# d" y$ [% B6 R0 b$ h
Besides the ability to downloadthe Facebook app, there are no new apps in webOS 1.3.1 and only asmattering of inconsequential changes beyond the above mentioned items- at least that I can find. 'Orange' + Tap on an icon still gives youthe option to delete 3rd party apps, but now it also shows you the size.
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( E* k; \( r2 V Bluetooth(on the Pixi at least) appears to have received a bunch of fixes aswell. On the Pre I've never been able to get A2DP Bluetooth stereo towork with my car stereo (AVRCP controls worked fine). The Pixi pulls itoff without a hitch.
$ Y$ G3 c" b/ c$ W5 L/ E( I$ m- E With a couple exceptions, speed isn't significantly improved (more on that in our full review).There are a raft of other much-desired features missing here as well,but still and all, it's webOS and I'm rather fond of it.
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