Palm Press: Advantage — Palm, Flash Forward

Palm PressIt is Thursday and that can only mean it’s time for another Palm Press. Palm Press is our weekly look at the world of Palm. The smartphone race is going full blast and every competitor is pressing every advantage to get ahead of the pack. Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein said in an interview this week that Palm, Apple and RIM are the three companies that have an advantage over everyone else in the space due to deep hardware and software integration. His comments were obviously a dig at Microsoft given the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 this week.

Adobe is talking up the newest Flash player for mobile browsers, and went on video to show off Flash 10.1 running on a Palm Pre. They even stated on the video that the Pre will be one of the first phones to get the new Flash technology, and that is pretty darn exciting. The coolest demo was showing multiple instances of Flash in the browser running side-by-side.

Palm and Apple are still going back and forth with iTunes synchronization with the Pre, a situation that is getting a bit ridiculous at this point. Apple released a new version of iTunes that killed off the Pre’s ability to sync with that program’s music library. Palm then released WebOS version 1.2 that did not restore the syncing ability; pardon us for thinking the slapping contest was over. A few days later Palm released another update, 1.2.1, that restored the iTunes sync capability. Can’t these two companies just grow up, already?

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