webOS 1.3.5 to finally kill off app storage limit?
By Chris Ziegler 
posted December 4th 2009 8:54AM
posted December 4th 2009 8:54AM
There's no debating it: having 8GB of onboard storage on your phone is great. What's even better, though, is if you can actually use it -- and currently, owners of Palm Pres and Pixis are stuck with an arbitrary limit for curious technical reasons that caps app installations after a couple hundred megabytes and change. Back in the day when the App Catalog had a few dozen submissions, that was fine and dandy -- but these days, owners are staring down the barrel of a selection more than 500 apps deep, so the time's definitely come to put this annoyance to bed. PreCentral is reporting that webOS 1.3.5 will finally kill this one by moving app storage to another partition on the device's memory -- the media partition -- which has about 7GB free on a completely virgin phone. Coincidentally, this is the same partition that gets used when you hook up mass storage mode on a PC, so to prevent unencumbered copying of apps off the device, Palm will allegedly be employing some sort of on-the-fly encryption that keeps apps secure while connected. Next step, Palm: microSD expansion so we can install each and every one of those 500-plus apps. What do you say?
wow engadget should put more attention to the other guys like palm central that posted thhis like 2 days ago
way to go angadget
@garciaop
My 1.3GB TomTom app laughs in your face!
I know this is a story about Palm's WebOS, but perhaps when Palm fixes this, they could teach RIM how to fix this same limitation on RIM devices.
RIM always uses the lame excuse of "we won't do it because of security", well being able to store apps on SDcard doesn't really pose a security issue if the SDcard isn't readable on another device.
palm pre has less storage than android
@AndroidRokz
This doesn't even make sense. Android is software, not hardware.