Palm Pre gets upgraded to 1.0.4 (update: homebrew installs via email dead for now)
By Chris Ziegler 
posted June 29th 2009 1:50PM
posted June 29th 2009 1:50PM
Update: Looks like the only changes here address security vulnerabilities -- and interestingly, Palm gives a shout-out to Townsend Ladd Harris (a Pre homebrewer no less) who helped find them. Cheers to that.
Update 2: Sadly, Palm's plugged the hole that allowed homebrew apps on the phone without a jailbreak, though software you've already installed on the phone will continue to work. The hole that's been plugged was admittedly dangerous to leave open (installing apps via a link in email), though rooting and installing otherwise remain unchanged as far as we know.
his name starts with i, therefore he's used to doing what he's told to by iJobs.
You named this screenshot file "updates_2009-29-06_133808.jpg"? Year-Day-Month is the last thing we need on this planet - another completely new standard by Engadget! You are risking to ruin the only one standard date format that always was recognizable and unmodified: yyyy-mm-dd. Fighting for unified power supplies with the left hand, and introducing a new date format with the right hand!
@Takeo: "Year-Day-Month is the last thing we need on this planet - another completely new standard by Engadget!"
I was going to ask you if you've never heard of Europe, but I checked with Wikipedia, and yyyy-dd-mm is, indeed, not a globally-accepted format.
Source (Wikipedia): http://tr.im/qdvC
Why do you care about how we're naming our images? (Do I *want* to know?)
Have you ever tried to *sort* your files? Much easier when they're labelled yyyy-mm-dd. Otherwise you get every 6-29 from each year lining up, which is useless. A new format hasn't been invented -- it's just easier when dealing with computers. And why do you care?
They need to fix my random shut downs. I might return it soon.
I think you're confusing the Pre with the Blackberry Storm. My wife's Pre has YET to randomly reboot, while my Blackberry Storm was doing that up until the June 5th update. Fail, iPhone L(user)!
does it happen when you pop the slider open or close really fast? I had that. It's to be a hardware issue that some users have. Apparently the battery cover is not tight enough for some of them. Take it to the Sprint store (you're definitely within the trial time period). I got a new one without any hassle and it seems to be crash free.
Had someone written a malicious hack and emailed it to a bevy of pre users, or published it on a pre forum as a prank and ended up wiping out thousands of pre handsets, Palm would have been castigated. This update closes a legitimate, gaping security hole. So far Palm has been pretty cool and respectful of the homebrew community, posting in the precentral.net forums occasionally and checkout out what people are doing. I'm sure they are taking a lot of heat from Sprint, but I hope Sprint also recognizes the benefit of having an energized fanbase of people who like to tinker and harness this very cool device.
Palm's going about this quite nicely, the only thing keeping me from getting a Pre is the lack of apps. If not now then at least we need to know that developers will focus on making stuff for the Pre. Don't want to invest in the thing and then six months down the road find out nobody really cares about writing proggies for it.