Looks like a long-overdue maintenance release is inbound for
Pre and
Pixi users on Sprint -- and if the changelogs on Sprint's site are accurate, it's getting pushed as soon as... well, right now.
webOS 1.4.5 doesn't bring any exciting new features, per se, but it's got a handful of bug fixes that should make your life a tad more pleasant -- including something called "battery optimization," which is
always a good thing when it comes to a power-chugging smartphone like the Pre. For the record, this particular build was
supposed to have hit in early July, but for whatever reason, it fell off the map -- let's hope the same doesn't happen with
webOS 2.0, yeah?
Update: And now we're getting numerous reports that the update is rolling out to the Sprint Pre faithful. Anyone feeling left out?
posted August 10th 2010 10:00PM
Does anyone care? Even webOS users? Serious question.
@Gibson Well yeah I guess... There will be a lot more pdk apps available to us, which more sweet apps is always a good thing.
@Gibson Yes. I use a Pixi as a secondary phone. So any update is a plus.
@brokensticks At this point PDK apps only mean games which I have no interest in and so do many people based on the downloads. Palm should have also focused on better apps then they might be in a better position. For now all they have are bubble gum apps and games.
@brokensticks
I just switched to an iPhone 4 last week, and I have to say I am a much happier person.
webOS is innovative as hell, but it's just too niche and under-polished by Palm to base one's life around it. I have no confidence in its future, either.
@Gibson
Not really. WebOS fanboys are just depserate for any signs of life from WebOS.
@Deihmos UR wrong pre has many of the popular 3D games bcuz its very easy for dev to port games. i have an android phone and i love it but the pre has much better 3 d games in android need for speed - asphalt 5- Brothers in Arms ect.
it is a better platform than android right now or operating system andrew right now but no developers who moved to it. that phone and operating system is a prime example of what bad marketing will do for you. the pre was a much better phones in detroit in a much better operated system with verizon marketing smashed and a terrible marketin by palm and the terrible marketing by sprint smashed. i have an iphone i'm at avenue po my wife has a palm pre trust me man is a much better operating system than android and iphone operating system. if they have a phone very similar to the EVO I would prob get a Palm phone.
@Gibson
I care. Rocking out with webOS. Also, holding out for the next device that I think a lot of people will be impressed with. Dropping before the end of year.
Too little too late. I still like my Palm Pre but it has not done enough in the past year. Will be getting the epic 4G as a replacement.
@Deihmos @Deihmos I Love WebOS. Still there is nothing out today that tempts me enough to change. It's just the best foundation for a smartphone period. I'll be satisfied until they release the next WebOS phone given how well it works. Although, I would like to HP put the push on that considering Palm had been planning even before the buy. They need to stop losing senior Palm Staff and start making Pre 2's with some a$$ kicking hardware to go along with the A$$ kicking OS.
@Deihmos
agreed. I am really scared about the already questionable hardware life of this phone. It's falling apart and I'm getting tired of bringing it back to sprint and getting a new one every 3 months. Epic4g just come out already!
@Deihmos Just do what I did get a second line and have BOTH, LOL. That's what I do. But do you guys have mytether on the pre? If you do have you found any issues of it killing mytether with this new update? I have found mytether works better then the EVO 4g hotspot app. So it kind of sucks that I'm paying for a slower service.
@Deihmos Same here. Niceto meet another ex-pre Epic buddy.
@Deihmos Same here. Niceto meet another ex-pre Epic buddy.
Minneapolis 4G is up! my friends evo flipped to 4G just before lunch.
@eagrimm
Sweet!
I have a sprint pre and I could careless about this worthless update. If I had some throw away income I'd buy an Evo. The hardware is just dated, but when you have companys like BB mimicing the hardware and design Palm may have had something....
@willielewis2 I can't front I love WebOS.
I have a pre and I wish they would come out with new hardware already I like the os but the harware has to go my girl has iphone4 and well I'm jus embarrassed looking forward to this fall/winter for new phone I believe that the next phone that they come out with will be better than anything else by far
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I want webos on a landscape keyboard ... Or epic 4g in bored with webos ....for now- and the new webos phone better be 4g
@Bipoler23 Man I didn't even think of that possibility. If palm drops some non 4G piece if crap after being in bed with sprint for this long, they deserve the bankruptcy HP saved them from
webOs is still in the game
@handlebars Yeah but they are down by 21 with 2 minutes left in the 4th are. Game OVER
@dhamp2g once new hardware is announced things will be fine.. you really think that with hp's bank account palm/webOs are going anywhere? especially considering the quality of the os? dont think so..
@handlebars I think so, too. While I just had my first Palm Pre replaced (screen and earpiece stopped working), I still like the phone and the OS. Hoping this new update fixes a few glitches like the "Too Many Cards open" that comes up couple times a month.
@martymankins yea .. i can really see the difference in the richness of the couple of post 1.4.5 apps i've encountered..
Webos' faith is depended on who the new hp ceo ends up being.. If it's Tod (the current head of the pc division) then webos will do great! if it's someone who only cares about enterprise, and doesn't care about mobile then it won't do as well.
And no one cares about when it will hit the better CDMA carrier. Strange. I figured something about the 50$ Pre Plus and free Pixi Plus, as well as the best 3G network in America would have someone complaining about not being able to play half of the good 3D games in the App Catalog on a Verizon webOS device other than me! Then again, I'm not even complaining too much. I have no interest in some game that drains my battery more than Preopoly.
yay for anything webos but i really want a new WEBOS phone
The Nokia 5800XM got a firmware update a few days ago. It's now on v51.
I know a number of webOS users, and none of them care. They are all happy with their phones, because they aren't obsessed geeks. They happily use their phones for managing their lives and *gasp!* making calls!
I'm interested in the "battery optimization" but other than that I'm not interested. I don't play games on the phone so the pdk thingy is useless to me.
HP needs to fast track the next phone. I can't believe we STILL haven't heard even a hint of a rumor about it.
Every Pre update has had "battery optimization"
It still sucks.
The good new is you can buy a spare battery from Amazon for $8.00
@busdriver71
well so far today I'm only down 1% rather than 3-4, and I'm running 1ghz. Looks like something changed
I'm so sick of my Pre right now.. Thing can't even do facebook right. I have 2 FB apps on my phone yet both of them can't combine to give me the full experience I used to get from my iPhone. And the battery?? HAW!! -Optimize my arse!
@StarcasM are you using the palm facebook app? I think it does everything. There is also a beta app for the next update in the beta cataloge. My ipod doesn't do anything more than my pre.
@sandwich2 when it notifies me that someone made a comment of a Photo or Video, you press the link and every time it tells you: Unable to open photo/video.. Every time.
@StarcasM ding ding ding.
mine does that too and it drives me nuts.
and just today (i have 1.4.5), i left my twitter app open and from 7am-2pm i went from 100% battery to 32% battery.
sigh. love webOS, but as time goes on, more and more itching to bail.
This is crap, I just gave my Pre to my sis yesterday. I set my EVO to the side for a bit (still havent updated it). Right now Im using the Samsung Epic 4G and it is INCREDIBLE!
@JoJoSmash you can't possibly have an epic 4g...not a working one anyway
@Bipoler23 Thats exactly what my friends said too but then I showed them. Lol, I work at a Sprint store in Miami and we had a contest for two winner to test and keep mule models of Epic 4G. So far so cool. I was one of those winners :)
@dhamp2g once new hardware is announced things will be fine.. you really think that with hp's bank account palm/webOs are going anywhere? especially considering the quality of the os? dont think so..
I'll take froyo on my EVO over anything they have on webOS. People act like its only the hardware that's the problem, but after experience with both, I prefer Android considerably.
Im glad it hit for the reported improvements in battery life. I know its still too early to really tell but many precentral users are saying they are seeing improvements in battery life and speed... I don't really care about more 3D games I just want a super-fast and solid phone... my overclocked Pre does that for me... until palm comes out with another phone nothing else on the market interests me at all except possibly a jailbroken iphone 4 but forget att...
@martymankins yea .. i can really see the difference in the richness of the couple of post 1.4.5 apps i've encountered..