http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/ Engadget Comments for VNC on the Palm Pre lets you look at your desktop from afar, but not touch it http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/.> :sigh:]]>Jun 17th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
NOW Jaadu RDP (formerly teleport) is FREAKIN' AMAZING! Two finger taps to right click, even teleports sound back to iPhone. If your a sys admin, its worth the entire iPhone platform by itself.]]>Jun 17th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
All in about 1 minute flat. What privileged times we live in!!

And yet, in a few years time, we'll be laughing at the notion of this being a privilege...]]>Jun 18th 2009 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
Nice try, but you'll have to say something like "will it be soon enough to keep the Pre from being utterly demolished by the new iPhone?" or "will it be soon enough to keep the Pre's momentum going to the pinnacle of smartphonedom?" I know you can do it.]]>Jun 17th 2009 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Either way, great come back.]]>Jun 17th 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
The iphone wasn't perfect the first time around either. Far from it.. and palm included some things that apple will finally be including on their phones.... TOMORROW.

I'm going to buy a 3Gs... but who knows what might happen with the storm 3 or the pre 2... hell, the first pre just got out the door. Did you have an amazing app store overnight? did apple's ipod have all the music it has now and all of the features like video, games, genius, a unified scroll wheel, etc. right out of the door? no.

Grow up.]]>Jun 17th 2009 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
C'mon palm (and inventive programmers)... make it the killer device that palm was lacking for years.]]>Jun 17th 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
Gee, which would I rather do: Look at a couple of high-quality stills and skim an article to get the gist, or sit through yet another shitty "video" that's poorly shot, edited, and compressed.]]>Jun 17th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/How does it feel to know my VNC experence is seemless with multi-touch gestures?]]>Jun 17th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
I hope Palm soonish will start releasing their mobile world wide, that would be far more interesting then a silly client which 99% of the market doesnt know.]]>Jun 17th 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Why not just use your browser?

Pre's been out a week. What VNC app were you using, seemlessly with multitouch, a week after the iPhone's lunch? Oh wait, Apple still had it all locked down.

]]>Jun 17th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
Just a note, the G1/Dream is a complete mobile computer. The iPhone is a popsicle.]]>Jun 17th 2009 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Keyboard is only up when I command it to be up, noob.
Also I have the power of gestures at my finger tips.
I can zoom out and see most of my two screens and then with a simple tap of three fingers I zoom in 1:1
If I need more space to work with I pinch out, otherwise I can pinch in to get a better view.
Need to scroll down in Safari? Two finger drag does the same thing as the scroll wheel.
Oh hey, I want to put this image up on my site. Let me drag the image from Finder using Tap Tap Drag and put it into Cyberduck to upload to my server.
Need to right click? Not often, but when I do I can just tap with two fingers to bring up a context menu.
I fail to see how this is a popsicle.
I hope you like fiddling around with your Pre and it's keyboard to do things that I can do with intutive and simple gestures. ]]>Jun 17th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
The facts:
iPhone is a great phone which has several years worth of apps under it's belt.
Pre is a great phone which has 2 weeks worth of apps under it's belt prior to an official SDK release.

Frankly, Palm has done more in it's first 2 weeks than Apple did in it's first 2 weeks but yet the iPhone has had 2 years of extra development which still puts it ahead overall of the Pre. But the fact that the Pre has VNC in the works prior to the SDK is awesome! Either way, they are both great phones and are forcing each other to step it up. This is good for EVERYONE regardless of your fanboi preference.

Personally I got a Pre because Sprint > AT&T but if both phones were on all providers it would be a tough decision. In 6 months I'd suspect (read: hope) that both phones are on relatively equal footing regarding apps. This would challenge other phone companies to step up to the challenge of making a killer phone.]]>Jun 17th 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
Oh apple multi-touch patent? I think so. The pre only has multi-touch beacsue apple has some of their animation patents. If I were apple I would have made up my own animations for 3.0 and sued palm. That's right single touch Palm pre. Would be so good anymore would it?

Palm needs itunes for their music, because it is a bigt plus for people that are looking into that phone. Apple is going to shut them out pretty soon, so no more itunes for the pre.

Anyway all I am saying is the Pre would not be what it is if the iPhone never came out. And that the Pre is not doing better than the 1st gen iPhone which cost 3x as much.]]>Jun 17th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/You are talking about the business of the Pre vs iPhone not whether the product is better or not. And regarding patents, Palm has MANY more patents that the iPhone is violating. How about the patent that auto-dims the screen based on surrounding light. Yup, Palm owns that. And there are many others. But unless you are an investor, the business model shouldn't matter. In fact, if Palm was forced out because of patent issues, then I'd be even more upset because it hinders innovation.

Apple makes a quality closed system. The Pre is bringing a quality system that is proving to be much more open than Apple's.

And I totally agree that the iPhone revolutionized the phone industry. Nobody is doubting that. Does that immediately make Pre a crappy phone? No.

You need to get off your high horse that Apple is the end all be all of everything that is holy. The iPhone is definitely a great phone, but Apple NEEDS some competition. It's good for consumers. So far they have had little to no competition. The Pre is a GREAT device. It pushes the envelope. It forces Apple to continue innovating.

I'm a big fan of the iPhone. I own an iPod Touch and love it. If AT&T didn't suck so badly in my area, I'd even consider an iPhone. I'm not saying that the Pre is intrinsically better or worse than the iPhone but it's on par enough to provide some heavy competition.]]>Jun 17th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
Ladies and Gentlemen: the reality distortion field.]]>Jun 17th 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/Jun 17th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
Oh apple multi-touch patent? I think so. The pre only has multi-touch beacsue apple has some of their animation patents. If I were apple I would have made up my own animations for 3.0 and sued palm. That's right single touch Palm pre. Would be so good anymore would it?

Palm needs itunes for their music, because it is a bigt plus for people that are looking into that phone. Apple is going to shut them out pretty soon, so no more itunes for the pre.

Anyway all I am saying is the Pre would not be what it is if the iPhone never came out. And that the Pre is not doing better than the 1st gen iPhone which cost 3x as much."- larryryan0824

Dude really agreed that the pre may be benifiting from some of the Iphone concepts, but remember that palm has beem touch screen prety much from the word go and was the first smart phone. So saying that the pre wouldent have come out without the Iphone comming first is totally wrong if apple hadent come along and taken the idea that palm started with a touch screen and improving it then palm probably would have gotten here eventually. My issues with the Iphone are simple for total service unlimited everything it runs you about 150 and you are stuck with At&t thats a blower also I cant stand Itunes and the only real way to load music or video to your phone is with a proprietary piece of crap like itunes that is really all I have against the Iphone palm nolonger makes you install the palm desktop and this is good lets hope mr Jobs can see the light and remove the shackles for the Iphone. by the way I am a tech lover not a anti apple trol or a microsoft lover tech is beautyful in its purest form.]]>Jun 17th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/vnc-on-the-palm-pre-lets-you-look-at-your-desktop-from-afar-but/
It seems as though everytime something new and fresh gets introduced (in this case webOS and the Pre) there has to be a holy war with the Apple Fanboys.

I personally love the iPhone and would be hard pressed if they brought one to Sprint on which device to make my daily. That being said frankly a true fanboy would recognize that having a new fresh device is good for innovation. Thusly it would push Apple away from doing another refresher of the device already on the market, in other words the competition offered by Palm would push Apple away from releasing the 3GS2 on the next cycle of new devices. Personally I have been a Palm fanboy for years, dating back to handspring devices and the ever loved palm pilots, and I am perfectly fine with being the number two in mind share in the smartphone market. Mind share if maintained will lead to market share. I'm sure Palm is not trying to top Apple, just as say Mahalo or Bing would not be trying to top Google. All in all the Pre and webOS if nothing else for the Apple fanboys should be a step towards better innovation and should be welcomed. Competition is a great thing, the Holy War is really just comparing devices that essentially do the same thing. Give it up and be grateful.]]>Jun 17th 2009 11:36AM