Palm's the master of its own domain, the king of its own Castle

Rule #7 of mass promotional emails: find / replace. Just do it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2009 1:40AM]

finally a new look from palm and hope it wont let us down again
but any way
by the way wanna say hello to all folks at san jose california

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2009 1:38AM]

lol!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2009 1:15PM]

I saw that on my notification message too. What the heck is the Castle Phone? Code name for the Pre?

[fernando Posted Jan 9th 2009 2:00PM]

Palm Castle running the Nova OS, naturally.

I lol'd at the article title tho :D

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2009 2:30PM]

This is funny ... and very interesting. This is the very first we heard of the "Palm Castle," which means Palm did a perfect job, essentially, of keeping that code name under wraps.

Now, we've every reason to believe that the Pre is the Castle (it was in the Pre email, after all), but what if it isn't?

I, for one, am dying to know what the next WebOS device will be because I'm hoping for something a little bit different/better than the Pre (specifically, expandable memory (no, 8gb doesn't cut it)). If they don't announce anything else by launch then the Pre is mine, of course.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2009 7:16PM]

The Palm website says the Pre supports USB mass storage. Thus, I can only conclude that it has a memory card slot already, most likely micro SDHC. So there's your number one concern taken care of.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2009 4:38AM]

Nope, USB Mass Storage mode means you can plug the Pre into the USB slot of a computer (via the charge cable, obviously) and the Pre, itself, will act as a Mass Storage device, or USB key or portable hard drive. SDHC is THE key acronym. Without it, it MicroSDHC does not exist on this device.

USB Mass Storage mode is a god-send for mobile devices and one of the few key reasons I would never even consider an iPhone. There are a couple apps for the old Palm/Garnet OS that do this. I use, rely on and love Card Reader. My Treo 650/680/Centro wouldn't be sorely lacking without it. With the Pre, it comes built in.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2009 3:18PM]

A 'Castle' to protect Palm from the cruel, vicious outside world where their customers live and breathe. I'm surprised the in-house name wasn't "Let Them Eat Cake!". ;)

This is NOT Nova.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2009 4:30AM]

And I suppose you think Palm has a SECOND new OS coming out, then. Good Grief.